Example sentences of "as it were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And , as it were one voice , an agony Of lamentation , like a wind that shrills All night in a waste land , where no one comes , Or hath come , since the making of the world . |
2 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
3 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
4 | It is like poetry : some people do not believe in its existence at all , others argue over whether certain arrangements of words are poetry or not : these zodiacs are as it were topographical poems , a poetic geography akin to legendary history , Like legends , with which they often link up , these poems in the landscape give an identity to a place , a personality which may especially be lacking in the urban wasteland of an area like the suburbs of London , so that the place is no longer just somewhere in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere . |
5 | Um , if you look at erm who 's bringing people up , again according to Daley and Wilson , I think this is where the information originated , in Canada where they 've looked at um looked at some statistics on this , if you 're being brought up by step-parents you 're seventy times more at risk than if you 're being brought up by your as it were biological parents . |
6 | Given Tate 's deepseated and as it were forefated Virgilianism , it hardly could . |
7 | Sir , if you do come to the view , however , that one or both of these sites may have some as it were residual greenbelt functions , then we ask you to bear in mind the matters raised , in particular Mrs 's appendix nine , about the need in the longer term , that is , beyond two thousand and six in particular , for a strategic reserve . |
8 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |
9 | It 's a high-risk enterprise for us to , to pontificate about local radio , particularly as we have three as it were local radio representatives here , and we shall give them ample opportunity to confirm or deny the sort of things we 're saying . |
10 | yes I allow the plaintiffs appeal and dismiss the defendants as it were cross appeal from the order in erm it 's the August er taxing master right of the twelfth , twelfth of August is n't it ? |
11 | He certainly does tend to separate new techniques and technologies out from the total matrix of forces playing on production and reproduction , and to exaggerate their as it were naked power ; and he does underestimate the capacity of the capitalist media industries to channel the use made of them to suit their own interests , nullifying radical potential . |