Example sentences of "[noun sg] even [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took command late in the game , and a heroic display by Paul Mathers was needed to give his side even a share of the points . |
| 2 | They took command late in the game , and a heroic display by Paul Mathers was needed to give his side even a share of the points . |
| 3 | Good locks are n't cheap … unless you compare them with the sort of loss and distress even a minor burglary can cause . |
| 4 | To be sacked on the spot , or with inadequate notice , is likely to distress even the most resilient of businessmen . |
| 5 | There they had little hope of meeting , wooing or wedding even the most hideous and unsuitable Englishwomen . |
| 6 | Non-typists have difficulty finding the desired keys and may take a long time to type even a short word . |
| 7 | But they have proved that with a good plan , persistence and a lot of hard work even a very steep slope can be transformed into a tremendous garden . |
| 8 | We can see that in this area of intellectual work even the analysis of concepts carries with it a considerable political and even emotional charge . |
| 9 | His truly phenomenal and technique and poetic incandescence prompt even the most blasé listener to feel that they are hearing familiar works for the first time . |
| 10 | In the atmosphere fostered by the Buturlin Committee even the work of academics became suspect . |
| 11 | The dramatic events in Eastern Europe in late 1989 called into question even the Franco-German relationship . |
| 12 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 13 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 14 | In the modern period even the apparatus of Cabinet government has become a masking façade for monocratic rule by the British Prime Minister ( Benn , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Under the microscope even the bone structure of these dinosaurs looks more like that of living mammals than cold-blooded reptiles . |
| 16 | For a moment even the voice I am drafting them in changes . |
| 17 | Anyway , Europe boasts a variety of approaches to this tax even the number of VAT periods varies by country — all of which may potentially need accommodating by any accounting system claiming to be pan-European . |
| 18 | But for a brief space the archbishop was at peace with both pope and emperor , and this was an alliance even the commune could not withstand . |
| 19 | On occasion even the latter have lost their usual reticence and blundered . |
| 20 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 21 | During the last decade even the repertory of medieval polyphonic song has been absorbed into the a cappella tradition . |
| 22 | In any event even a convoy of ten trucks can only provide 1.5–2.0 kg per person — enough food for about two days . |
| 23 | They were unlike anything ever seen before and for a while even the term ‘ Dalek Operator ’ , credited at the end of each episode , substantiated the myth that they were actually radio-controlled robots . |
| 24 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 25 | Apart from Westminster , the channel could relay reports from the European Parliament , the US Congress — and one day even the Supreme Soviet in Moscow . |
| 26 | Erm but it 's got impact because of the colour even the the trolley that it 's standing on erm , has got er red wheels , and this yellow sort of er towing bar there . |
| 27 | Therefore I am not able to suggest to you , and have n't been able to in my evidence which district even a new settlement er ought to go in , but I have to say that if it were part of your deliberations that you should choose a particular district , er then it is not part of my submission that you should not choose a particular district , but my bottom line is that the policy wording should at least ensure that there is commitment to a new settlement and it is inescapable on behalf of the district planning authorities , the last thing that we would want is the possibility of going round the districts , and the last one to produce a district wide plan is the one that has to get the new settlement , that seems to be a gen , fairly unsatisfactory way of proceeding , and each one should have to consider that as part of their certification process . |
| 28 | The tunnel cuts through a saddle into the valley of the Stinchar river , so on a calm morning even a heavy train on the bank could hardly be heard from the Pinmore side of the tunnel . |
| 29 | This morning even the scenery could not lift her from her jaundiced mood . |
| 30 | It was a heavy snowfall and by morning even the most prominent landmark was disguised beneath a thick covering of snow . |