Example sentences of "even as [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is not just that international affairs are hard to reduce to intellectual order , perhaps because they are changing character even as one tries . |
| 2 | Likewise , she expects the children to operate intuitively in their make-believe , but she believes the intuition can be a refined instrument , accompanied by a high degree of awareness , at its best , bringing about reflection on what one experiences even as one experiences it . |
| 3 | Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins . |
| 4 | For Gillis infatuation slides into obsession , even as he becomes aware of ensnarement in a fatal web of greed , ambition and deceit , of a trap that threatens his sanity , his life and that of his son . |
| 5 | That even as he gets them in his grip |
| 6 | Such a conflict of conversational goals is the domain of pragmatics and will be dealt with later , but its seriousness is strongly implied by Anderson 's very flawed linguistic performance even as he resorts to a higher lexical register to excuse his actions . |
| 7 | Even as he speaks |
| 8 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 9 | On the other , simultaneously , He moves across the surface of the sea : upon the face , riding the waves even as He creates them , surfing the world into existence . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Many of his problems seem to come down to cash , but even as he bows out Bradley remains the political populist , unwilling to criticise . |
| 12 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 13 | 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 , : |
| 14 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yet even as it does your vision alters , |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Even as it rises , it loses the counterfeit warmth of the sun which it has appropriated and becomes glacial , all its pockmarks visible . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |