Example sentences of "even as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But could such tracks have survived , even as a remnant ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Deliver your attack even as the opponent begins his |
| 6 | His mind was elsewhere , exploring , recording , storing up scenes and experiences that would serve his work , even as the travel served his restless needs . |
| 7 | The everyday things of life were the greatest gifts to ben Eliezer ; even as the human heart was the most appropriate place of worship . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Strikingly , even as the newly-qualified trained infantrymen relax outside the NAAFI with their visitors , the process of coaching other recruits to that goal goes on relentlessly around them . |
| 15 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 16 | The air force general leading the mutineers refused to give up control of the base even as the seige of Makati ended . |
| 17 | Mr Guillermo ‘ Billy ’ Ford , a vice-presidential Adoc candidate , was also severely bloodied and beaten even as the other Adoc leader , Mr Ricardo Arias Calderon , condemned the cancellation of the poll as ‘ an unbearable mockery of the will of the Panamanian people ’ . |
| 18 | Germany 's imports from France rose by only 7% last year in D-mark terms , well down from the 13% average rise in 1988 and 1989 , even as the rate of growth in France 's imports from Germany slumped from 15% to 1% . |
| 19 | Short of this , he wants the Soviet Union tied more closely into the western economy , even as the ending of the cold war tied it closer to western diplomacy . |
| 20 | Even as the people run away in terror , the fire of God 's anger , which destroyed parts of the camp in Numbers 11 , now consumes the 250 men who had been the closest supporters of Korah in his bid for power . |
| 21 | But , even as the fruits of that movement 's success began to be tasted , complex problems arose . |
| 22 | But even as the insult shaped itself in her larynx she discovered that she had smiled at him , openly , quickly , but unmistakably warm . |
| 23 | Even as the operations were in the making , between 1984 and 1986 , they were dogged by an air of unreality and self-delusion . |
| 24 | Can Mr Mitterrand , even as the opinion polls condemn him and the press mock him as a king on the eve of his dethronement , be about to try one last grand jeu before he really ‘ quits ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Even as the world developed its enormous appetite for our end-products and chemical building blocks , we had this habit of building capacity faster than demand . |
| 26 | In the aftermath of the Mutiny , however , the eighteenth-century imperial style was dropped , even as the East India Company was wound up . |
| 27 | Even as the lists have been revised and filled out , inspectors have no right of access to examine interiors . |
| 28 | Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop . |
| 29 | Even as the day began , rumours were rife that the band had refused to play . |
| 30 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |