Example sentences of "[coord] even as " in BNC.

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1 Roman Catholicism preserves clear remnants of the medieval canonical teaching in its exclusion of women from the sanctuary as altar servers , or even as participants in the rite of footwashing .
2 You might view yourself as pretty acceptable , or slightly away from your goal weight , or even as really fat .
3 One of the major problems with this is that the private benefits accruing to households or families who take up either family planning or conservation measures are often not clear — either as perceived to exist by households themselves or even as calculated by economic models .
4 He had never previously thought of himself as acquisitive or even as particularly materialistic .
5 Whereas the Albemarle Report had seen them as shallow and frivolous , as examples of young people being manipulated by commercial interests , or even as hooliganism , the CCCS saw them as important and creative in their own right — as young people expressing their own point of view .
6 Lyons could legitimately maintain that scribal records have some potential , according to the institutions in which they are developed and used , for reliability as defined in that culture or even as defined by him .
7 At its best the combination is uniquely potent — a controlled conflagration which almost scorches the ear , a sense of communicative intensity not as an optional extra , or even as something to be striven for , but as a constant presence , only waiting to be channelled in the right direction .
8 It seems unsound , then , to dismiss the rule as a convenient summary of the theory underlying several specific torts which had existed long before 1868 , or even as the old cattle-trespass rule raised to a high power .
9 There was nothing in his face that she could interpret as affection or even as desire .
10 ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man .
11 I 'd I 'd submit the erm Humberside Policy E four erm not exactly as a as a model policy or even as best practice .
12 But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt .
13 This chapter addresses the problem of handling these fleas , not as extraordinary ideas , nor even as physical entities , but as units of information .
14 For the Christian the source of human values is neither the result of genetics nor the product of human reason nor even as Hayek would have it a process of cultural selection by which certain rules of conduct become accepted and others rejected , but the revelation by God through his Word in history .
15 The dissatisfied applicant for accommodation can not challenge the suitability of the accommodation offered on its merits , nor even as of right .
16 And even as the unlamented Official Secrets Act of 1911 groaned in its death throes in the late 1980s ( to be replaced by an even more constraining measure ) , officers about to retire in West Mercia were presented with an official force form and asked to sign a ‘ Declaration ’ under the Act .
17 I have seen at long last that I need to be free of my beloved mistress and even as I write that word it is hollow for how can I love one who no longer has the least regard for me ?
18 Mr Dobbs said : ‘ As far as I am aware the BBC want to do the sequel , and even as I speak they are discussing potential script writers . ’
19 James Molyneaux and the Rev Ian Paisley have already set this deadline for the resumption of talks and even as their two parties vigorously fought each other in several constituencies , joint working groups were in session drawing up vital working papers for the forthcoming negotiations .
20 Britain , however , had fought to impede European agreements requiring catalytic converters on cars and even as London 's traffic slowed to pre-First World War speeds , planned to build vast new roads and to cut rail services .
21 ( ‘ And even as wheels in harmony of clockwork so turn that the first , to whoso noteth it , seemeth still , and the last to fly … ’ )
22 But it 's a duster you take to it , not one of the latest hydraulic drills , and even as you dust , you must do it lovingly .
23 But police said children had ignored them and even as rescue workers left the scene they had to warn two more boys who were about to go out on to the ice .
24 And even as he began , a top executive from Renault-Williams tried to persuade him not to go through with it .
25 I swallowed this , and even as they walked me down the garden path and into the field where the half-built aviary was situated , I still had no idea what was going on .
26 A wind was getting up , and even as I stood there , the lower stars were obscured by drifting darkness .
27 In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken .
28 And even as she prayed and wished , she knew , deep inside , that it was all useless .
29 As Jack and his friends grow older their pace necessarily slows a little but there is still an impetuous tone about their exploits as lieutenants , commanders and even as admirals , and their courtships as well as their warmongering are still basically ‘ fun ’ .
30 When the old man had wandered upstairs again , with a book under his arm , Clara whispered " Who Was that ? " and even as she Whispered she realized that it could be no other than the book shops owner , and added hastily , " That must be A. I Warbley , I suppose ? "
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