Example sentences of "even as it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stirred the man in him even as it gored him . |
| 2 | But such was the genuine power of his personality that his persistent contention that these fasts were undertaken with the object of assisting his opponents to accept his point of view on its merits always received respectful attention , even as it became more and more evident , with the passage of time , that their success depended in actuality on the personal capital he had built up : he was too special , too revered , and eventually too important in the political consciousness of the Indian masses , to be allowed to die . |
| 3 | Yet even as it does your vision alters , |
| 4 | consolidated itself as sovereign subject by defining its colonies as ‘ Others ’ , even as it constituted them , for purposes of administration and the expansion of markets , into programmed near-images of that very sovereign self . |
| 5 | ‘ Thanks , Belinda , ’ he said solemnly , trying to eat the fluffly mass even as it began to darken and stick to his fingers . |
| 6 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
| 7 | It was supremely indifferent , but , even as it burned into her like acid , her fingers were plunging into the midnight darkness of his hair as she invited his kiss again , the tumult of his mouth on hers and in it already a necessity , wildness running in her veins , the heavy aching beat of desire unchecked at the deep core of her womanhood . |
| 8 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 9 | The central paradox of this kind of ‘ trading places ’ is that through the very symmetry of its inversions it postulates imaginary correspondences between black and white positions even as it seeks to naturalize difference and domination . |
| 10 | When … our Soviet rivals recognised they could not match us … and as their own system indisputably failed the Soviet people even as it abused them — then came the turning point . ’ |
| 11 | Inversion becomes a kind of transgressive mimesis : the subculture , even as it imitates , reproducing itself in terms of its exclusion , also demystifies , producing a knowledge of the dominant which excludes it , this being a knowledge which the dominant has to suppress in order to rule . |
| 12 | She tried to dismiss the thought even as it formed . |
| 13 | I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood . |
| 14 | We are confident that IBM is indeed primarily interested in the morphing business even as it metamorphoses itself into a new and presumably reinvigorated enterprise . |
| 15 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 16 | Even as it rises , it loses the counterfeit warmth of the sun which it has appropriated and becomes glacial , all its pockmarks visible . |
| 17 | On the lower rung of legal self-determination the grant of customary franchises might be in a lord 's interests , for it could secure his revenues in perpetuity , even as it barred him the chance of arbitrary exaction ; besides , an early concession might prevent more explosive demands later . |
| 18 | Even as it terrified him , Lucien was triumphant . |
| 19 | I thought to myself , even as it happened , that this winking of my very self-consciousness was a nice expression of the value I represented . |
| 20 | With a little more attention to the parser it could have been a Sizzler , but even as it stands it 's well worth your dosh so get out there and part with it at once ! |
| 21 | IT is almost inevitable that a critical overview of feminist writing on film reproduces the dominant features of existing debate , even as it tries to displace them . |
| 22 | What this suggests is that if the demonizing of the deviant other leads to suppression and even extermination , the colonizing of the deviant involves an assimilation which re-forms , ethically and literally , even as it re-presents . |
| 23 | Russian opposition to the concession even as it stood was defused by presenting the Persian text to the Russian delegation when the Russian 's translator was known to be out of town . |
| 24 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
| 25 | But the anointing , which ye had received of him , abideth in you , and ye need not have any man teach you but as the same anointed teachers you all things , and is truth and is no lie and even as it have taught you , ye shall abide in him . |