Example sentences of "even as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as he uttered the words a strange noise could be heard from beyond the French windows . |
| 2 | To carry out participant observation into the minutiae of police practice might be theoretically approved in any statement made for general consumption , but in the cold light of institutional reality it will most likely be thwarted or subverted even as it is being agreed . |
| 3 | Critical of the way that status is attributed by the institution , his thesis was that even as the service proclaims ‘ beat patrol work ’ to be the basis of all good policework , it penalizes and stigmatizes those who remain there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 6 | Deliver your attack even as the opponent begins his |
| 7 | Even as you begin to draw back the snap punch , pick up your front foot and set it down diagonally forwards and outwards , using a thrusting action from the rear leg to cover ground . |
| 8 | He was also a spokesman for God , even as Aaron was Moses ' spokesman . |
| 9 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 10 | Even as Breavman 's lectures in The Favourite Game ‘ did n't count ’ , so the academic exercises dwindled — and faded away . |
| 11 | His mind was elsewhere , exploring , recording , storing up scenes and experiences that would serve his work , even as the travel served his restless needs . |
| 12 | The everyday things of life were the greatest gifts to ben Eliezer ; even as the human heart was the most appropriate place of worship . |
| 13 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 14 | The negative side of all this was ben Eliezer 's polemics against straight-faced , over-serious rabbinism ; against those whose understanding of God 's nature was austere and unfatherly ; those who , while seeking to elevate the Most High , merely put him out of touch with his own children ; debarred them from his welcoming presence by a system or learning that became ‘ frivolous ’ in its intensity : not that its perpetrators could be frivolous : black was their colour , even as severity was their posture — as becomes the frozen-in-soul . |
| 15 | The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market . |
| 16 | Even as she offers her diagnosis , she very touchingly envelops it in a renewed insistence on how he was still , in 1935 , ‘ passionate and austere , : |
| 17 | If so , we English Poundians , even as we castigate our countrymen for clinging to the norm of the amateur in an age when that norm is unserviceable , may well spare more than just wistful nostalgia for this ideal that survives among us only in a debased and anachronistic version . |
| 18 | Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate . |
| 19 | While other ways of making money become more respectable and sometimes laudable , developers are still seen as the spiritual heirs of Victorian millowners and slum landlords , people who , even as they tear the hearts out of cities , simultaneously give then a fatal sclerosis . |
| 20 | Even as the first-year girl drew her inferences , her headmaster , Manuel Lenarduzzi , was preparing for last night 's meeting with her parents and those of other first-year children who are the guinea pigs of the new system and whose future is one of attainment targets . |
| 21 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |
| 22 | East Germany 's first organised opposition group , New Forum , its aims far from radical by comparison with those now being voiced in Poland and Hungary , was established last month even as the mass exodus began . |
| 23 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 24 | The last house in the valley — West Wortha — will be demolished within the next four weeks , but archaeological work will continue even as the water level starts to rise . |
| 25 | Even as they began , the chief Soviet spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov , was insisting that change was necessary : ‘ Those who delay will be punished by life itself . ’ |
| 26 | Conversely , desire bears the imprint of disgust : even as the low other becomes an object of longing , it is simultaneously that on to which is displaced a self-disgust that inheres at the centre of bourgeois desire , and for that matter other forms of desire . |
| 27 | But do n't we also know , if only in our dreams , that even as we do so we will one day just as surely tall down it ? |
| 28 | Levine contends that these tracts , even as they confidently sermonize on the fixed nature of identity , especially gender identity as prescribed by God and signified through dress difference , display a deep anxiety that identity is not fixed ; that , underneath , the self is really nothing at all ( ‘ Men in Women 's Clothing ’ , 126 and 128 ) . |
| 29 | The influence of the semiotic model within psychoanalysis is important but , as we shall see , it is often incorporated into sexual difference theory in a form which manages to exclude what the model is especially sensitive to , namely the way oppositions which constitute meaning are fundamentally binary , yet can not ultimately be contained in and by binary closure even as , in practice , the binary remains a fundamental principle of social and psychic ordering . |
| 30 | But again , what is often left out of such accounts of the unconscious , even as it is invoked as the prime destabilizer , is the importance of the perversions in precisely this respect : Freud insisted that what is operative from within the unconscious , producing this very instability , is repressed perversion . |