Example sentences of "[noun pl] to even " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It gives me the willies to even think about the rent , ’ Dustin averred .
2 Pressure on land may be very strong , making it impossible to raise funds to even acquire the garden , let alone restore it .
3 It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be .
4 £1200 will buy you all these books and catalogues selected by our staff to satisfy your present-giving duties to even the most extended family
5 Yet somehow , unaccountably , I find myself 16 behind needing the last three colours to even the match .
6 The Low Pay Unit , which sets minimum rates of pay for 2.5 milion workers , announced that Mrs Shephard had condemned the poorest families to even lower wages .
7 It is not going too far to suggest that it was the fame of Chaplin that first allowed many intellectuals to even broach the subject of film and certainly he brought back the possibility of ‘ slumming it ’ that had rather disappeared since the days of music-hall .
8 I want to hear what you 've got to say now 'cos at the moment it 's hard enough listening to your gems to even contemplate buying what 's spouting out of your Arsenal .
9 She had achieved much , and given them all an injection of hope with her sparkling personality , keen interest in their concerns and positive reactions to even the most difficult situation .
10 In the end the company , under huge pressure from the local community , refused permission for the NIREX surveyors to even make an initial survey of the mine galleries .
11 It also shows women are over-represented in education , languages and literature and music/drama/art/design , whereas men are over-represented in engineering and technology and science , and that this pattern has not changed a great deal over the period , despite attempts to even out the balance , and in particular to attract more women on to science and technology courses .
12 But because the opportunities of the electronic records are far richer than the paper records the electronic environment will require answers to even more questions .
13 Another interesting twist to the evening was at the end of the show when the audience was invited to put questions to both performers whose answers to even the stupidest of enquiries were quick and funny with some excellent put-downs for those who dared to ask the wrong things .
14 South Africa has such a congested international itinerary over the next few season that there is going to be little opportunity for this country 's top players to even think in terms of county contracts .
15 I reckon Leeds need to win 14 of the last 18 games to even give us a prayer .
16 But it adds nuances to even the basic questions of objectivity and scientific method .
17 At £166.75 this was far too expensive for most runners to even contemplate .
18 On the other hand , sex-discriminatory policies , particularly in the provision of pensions , have restricted the access of older women to even minimal income entitlements on a par with men .
19 For perhaps the best of reasons , parents were reluctant to subject their daughters to even the slightest diminution in their standard of life .
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