Example sentences of "as it were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | actually er as it were fused I do n't mean that sort of fuse , I mean |
| 2 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 3 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 4 | I 'm not saying it 's one that the tribunal should have accepted , but , but , but what I 'm saying is th there is an element of psychological truth in that , because if Freud 's theories if er bond Freud theory group behaviour is correct , then that does seem to happen some extent that the leader as it were takes and presumably this is why some people erm presumably er feel better in groups , perhaps that they get something out of a group that their own ego can not provide , but other people are uncomfortable in groups because they feel that their ego is being alienated and they 're losing some of their some of their power . |
| 5 | She stirred it vigorously , but it remained ominously thick in places , as if it would go into lumps as soon as it were heated . |
| 6 | Ah no , oh would it of not of been kinder to put it to sleep as soon as it were born ? |
| 7 | Now erm this is this is archetypical group behaviour , but whatever it is , it can not necessarily reflect erm that individual 's own erm peculiar self as it were using peculiar in the in the strict sense and proper to them , because as we 've seen what happens in a group is , is , is the individual . |
| 8 | There were mediaeval chroniclers , working from monasteries and sometimes from the courts , and those chroniclers were producing history which was an attempt as it were to set down what seemed to them to be the most important things that were happening at the time , with a few asides . |
| 9 | When you ca n't do something you know , you might actually kind of , your whole body kind of starts to , and that would be the ego as it were trying to express this , this er drive from the id . |
| 10 | In The Rape of Lucrece Tarquin , unable to restrain his lust , and as it were possessed by the spirit of the boar , violates the chaste Lucrece , a devotee of the goddess in her virgin mode as Diana . |
| 11 | And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right . |
| 12 | The old warrior was harking back to what John Grigg has called ‘ the heroic , and in a way surreal , interlude of 1940 and 1941 , when Britain , as it were played its finest match before relegation to the second division ’ . |
| 13 | I mean how do you protect Eurofighter two thousand in the absence of the medium range surface to air missile on the , I think you you told us about er the aircraft themselves as it were providing their own protection but what else ? |
| 14 | Anyway erm so erm you sometimes also find with family situations , let's suppose in some situations you have some you have a daughter in the household who 's being abused by say the father or step-father , maybe if there 's a brother once he gets old enough to start becoming interested in sex , in some cases , although he 's round about the same age as his sister , can be um as it were inducted into the into the cycle of abuse erm can actually start participating when the dynamic 's already there . |
| 15 | To what extent do you think that the creation of , of all these as it were structures on |
| 16 | He 'd had thirty five years ' experience , he was looking at th and and in his mind 's eye putting the jigsaw puzzle into the van as it were to work out how much space it would take . |
| 17 | And this is where the second proposal is , that , there is again confusion between having a joint pol erm , a , erm , a joint policy group at chief officer level , and J C P T , and that again those should as it were combined , but that the arrangement could be s could be erm , kept as small and tight to encourage effective action as you move into joint commissioning , and that is bringing your budget alongside that of the Health Authority , and would be the best way to get erm , the best leverage on services that you can across that divide . |
| 18 | She drew off the boots and put them , lolling side by side , as it were breathing together , before she stuffed them full of tissue-paper to keep their shape . |
| 19 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 20 | I do n't want you to give me your answers now , I am as it were giving you the opportunity now , over lunch , to consider this matter . |
| 21 | If that 's a natural as it were adapted effect of the Trivers Willard effect , there are plenty of cultural ones as well . |
| 22 | Yes , in that sense , in that sense , the unconscious thought was expressed but the , but the point was , i the anxiety as it were got the better of the dream , did n't it , if you woke up ? |
| 23 | Erm if you 're buying an endowment policy is it possible to put er put it in as it were paid up , or do you have to find the premiums out of your income ? |
| 24 | One such exception concerns circumstances where a particular person does not have close relatives , where there seems to be an expectation that kin in the outer circle should give more support than they otherwise might , as it were deputizing or substituting for the non-existent children or parents . |
| 25 | But the first thing that 's the first thing to bear in mind , the first thing to bear in mind of course is had our previous proposals in other years been accepted Mr Mayor we would need it as it were to make these cuts from this year . |
| 26 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 27 | So I got out the car and I went over and I , turned it down , as it were turning down I saw it was n't pouring just out the tap , it was also pouring from the |
| 28 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 29 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 30 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |