Example sentences of "[adv] even as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So even as humans , what makes us human — our basic inward energetic structure or constitution — is essentially instinctive . |
| 2 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 3 | To stand on this dusky wharf , bruised by a drum of creosote , and acting not even as the convent chaplain , but as some kind of school attendance officer ! |
| 4 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
| 5 | He did not want another woman , not even as emetic . |
| 6 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
| 7 | But in the South Pacific as in the North , that original idyll was fading away even as Gauguin paid tribute to it . |
| 8 | Indraugnir was mighty even as dragons measure strength but even he was weary by the time he bore Aenarion to his destination . |
| 9 | But she had begun the withdrawal and her synapses knew enough to carry it out even as thousands of her brain-cells died in the nova . |
| 10 | That 's , that 's right , it 's being updated now even as we speak . |
| 11 | The farmer with fertile land in a favourable situation and with a good business sense may be able to adjust his product ‘ mix ’ so as to hedge his income from market fluctuations , and to ensure a cash-flow which is as even as possible throughout the year . |
| 12 | Try to keep the joints as even as possible , as it makes the finish look better . |
| 13 | In reality the distribution was nothing like as even as this . |
| 14 | Further development work is going on even as the pilot progresses . |
| 15 | Then even as I was grinding its neck into the gravel it was trying to peck my heel . |
| 16 | Inevitably , therefore , the government fails to deliver the goods as demanded , as expected , and sometimes even as promised . |
| 17 | Most of the latter were Scottish but a few were mercenaries from Denmark , Ireland , and as far afield even as Genoa . |
| 18 | I seized that bloody pole , swinging the barge round even as I felt the water beneath me slop and gurgle as if maliciously laughing at me , waiting to embrace us in its frozen grasp . |
| 19 | Yet even as North spoke , the contras were collapsing under the very impact of his half-secret operations ; and by the time of his trial , less than two years later , the new administration had turned its back on them . |
| 20 | Yet even as these studies were being published , major enquiries into child care scandals , such as those on the deaths of Jasmine Beckford , ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 ) , Tyra Henry , ( London Borough of Lambeth , 1987 ) and Kimberley Carlile ( London Borough of Greenwich , 1987 ) continued to criticize social workers for not being sufficiently quick and firm in their interventions to protect children . |
| 21 | Yet even as 242 was being drafted . |
| 22 | Yet even as I remember Victoria , I feel keenly the unsettled state of my mind . |
| 23 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 24 | Yet even as it does your vision alters , |
| 25 | Yet even as the boy fell back , gasping for breath , that strange transformation overcame him again . |
| 26 | Yet even as she felt humiliated on his behalf she recognized that she too had been drawn into complicity with Emilia 's will . |
| 27 | She struggled to preserve detachment , yet even as her mind appeared to perform its duty , covering page after page with swiftly written words , elsewhere it found ever more disturbing ways to misbehave . |
| 28 | Its clamourings against solitude were a constant distraction from the cooler processes of thought ; yet even as her spirit chafed at this conflict between body and mind , Louisa understood that such stress was specific to her task and not to be avoided . |
| 29 | Willingly she would have surrendered the gift of consciousness if only she might drift like these in a blind passion of being , exempt from question ; yet even as she yearned wistfully so , another voice inside her agitated mind was whispering the old caveat from the Rosarium : that all error arose from failure to begin with the proper substance , from a proud forgetfulness that the magisterium is Nature 's work and not the worker 's . |
| 30 | Yet even as one half of her mind speculated on its significance , the other half reminded her that if she had stumbled on this odd circumstance , then the police would almost certainly have done so in the course of their routine enquiries and , since Barney was still their prime suspect , found a satisfactory explanation . |