Example sentences of "yet even as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet even as 242 was being drafted . |
| 4 | Yet even as I remember Victoria , I feel keenly the unsettled state of my mind . |
| 5 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 6 | Yet even as it does your vision alters , |
| 7 | Yet even as the boy fell back , gasping for breath , that strange transformation overcame him again . |
| 8 | Yet even as she felt humiliated on his behalf she recognized that she too had been drawn into complicity with Emilia 's will . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yet even as she spoke she knew that her grandmother would not fall asleep , not tonight she would n't . |
| 14 | Yet even as these deliberations were going on in Washington , a new Sino-American crisis had developed in the Far East . |