Example sentences of "even as [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee . |
| 2 | This has involved finding him venues for walkabouts and group discussions , where his staff think Mr Middle-England will come over well on television , even as they cut down on those wearisome charades , campaign ‘ photo opportunities ’ . |
| 3 | References to " poison pills " " shark repellants " and " golden parachutes " irritate some investors even as they impress others — and they flummox almost everybody . |
| 4 | Even as they dodge through the traffic clogging Kiev 's main street , Kreshchatik , pedestrians will assure you that it is no longer possible to buy petrol . |
| 5 | I am always amused by the idea that outsiders have of Whitehall as being slow-moving ; we are like a snake , whose coils seem to be lying motionless even as they flow past your eyes and are gone . |
| 6 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Are they not paradoxically reproducing the laws which exclude and oppress them , even as they seem to be escaping and subverting those laws ? |
| 9 | It is this last factor — the high cost of extending the scope of mainframe-based applications — that has discouraged hard-pressed customers in the US from adding mainframe power at a rapid pace even as they have rapidly added desktop machines and minicomputers . |
| 10 | The US is hardly lily white in the battle over chip imports into Japan , and Japanese chip users say that their US suppliers have been cancelling deliveries in favour of US customers even as they complain about the difficulty of penetrating the market , according to Electronic Industries Association of Japan . |
| 11 | so , even as they sleep , light is shaping |
| 12 | Each glance , each pair of eyes , even as they narrow in ingenuous appraisal , draws a bead on something inside him , and I sense the heat of fear and shame . |
| 13 | Even so , there can be no facile equation of racist and sexual discrimination , and this for three main reasons which , even as they preclude that equation , emphasize the significance of those points at which race and sexuality interconnect , and the particular importance of Fanon 's work in this respect . |
| 14 | So , many leading-edge manufacturers are searching for ways to enhance their workers ' capabilities and improve labour relations , even as they look to the new technology to cut labour costs as well . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Today I say to our financial and business leaders that although change is on the horizon , we understand the need to pursue stability even as we pursue new growth . |
| 16 | I 'm dealing with her even as we speak . |
| 17 | Even as we speak , I 'm wearing soft lenses . |
| 18 | but even as we speak |
| 19 | And I mean I know the screens are flickering in the Halifax and the Bradford and Bingley e even as we speak , and they do this fabulous analysis , you know you can see that to , to go for the repayment is not as efficient as the endowment , but it 's all a theoretical exercise . |
| 20 | Even as we speak , I 'm wearing the new , soft ‘ Torric ’ lenses . |
| 21 | That 's , that 's right , it 's being updated now even as we speak . |
| 22 | even as we mix against it |
| 23 | Who might be walking among us even as we pray to the Lord Jesus ? ’ |
| 24 | Even as we start to write , we find ourselves making contact with feelings for rhythm and style . |
| 25 | Rather , I conclude by inviting all of us whose activism is shaped by our concern for what is happening to the other animals to make a renewed , conscientious , patient and determined effort to come together and forge a common agenda , even as we work , both as individuals and organisations , on projects that are uniquely our own . |
| 26 | Security codes covering delicate operations have — even as we stand here — been altered . |
| 27 | Who do you think might be here , even as we stand here in Christian worship ? |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | But another level is immediately in question , even as we nominate the group . |
| 30 | 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 . |