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

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1 Even as distinguished a scholar as Karl Rahner loyally attempted to fall in line with papal doctrine , but only at considerable cost to his credibility .
2 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 .
3 Picketing — or , as he has it , ‘ picquetting ’ — he considered an ‘ abominable tyranny ’ , not yet revolution , even as seen from Peel 's Home Office in 1830 , but well on the way to it .
4 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 .
5 In these recent studies the idea of a unilinear development of society has been largely abandoned , even as representing the view of Marx himself , and it is argued instead that there are alternative form of society which have succeeded the primitive communal system .
6 [ T ] he term British constitution is near meaningless even as used by British writers .
7 ( ‘ And even as wheels in harmony of clockwork so turn that the first , to whoso noteth it , seemeth still , and the last to fly … ’ )
8 Unless it is submitted that prisoners have , on entering prison , surrendered all rights over their own bodies , in which case medical experimentation on them would be equally lawful , the case can not stand as authority for the proposition that there exists a duty , even as regards prisoners , far less at large , to prevent someone from refusing food and , a fortiori , medical treatment .
9 The number of days of practice needed before the patient has the courage to try and translate the visualization into action varies considerably , not only from one individual to another but even as regards the different stages of a person 's treatment .
10 This means that even as regards third parties who neither have nor need the protection of Code C , and who have never had such protection in the past , the police officer can not demand the production of a document relevant to the suspected offence .
11 Even as experienced , and senior , a journalist as the labour editor of the Sunday Times would find his copy altered without his knowledge and in ways which changed the substance of that copy .
12 Inevitably , therefore , the government fails to deliver the goods as demanded , as expected , and sometimes even as promised .
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