Example sentences of "even [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw his grave when I took a short cut through the churchyard — a modest , friendly , even jolly little grave , where in summer moon-daisies and red clover grew , and quaking grass which little children call shivery-shakes . |
| 2 | Most often the owners do not know how to care for these exotic pets , and care even less that tremendous suffering is involved . |
| 3 | He slept even less that night than the previous one . |
| 4 | But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time . |
| 5 | Bill Clinton , the brash young challenger , should comfortably walk into the White House if the opinion polls are even only half right . |
| 6 | If even only some of these criticisms were true , then national leadership in the agricultural sphere , and above all the subjugation of the Famine , was in precarious hands . |
| 7 | Even so many years after the Spanish Civil War , the Communist tag brings reactions of fear and violence to many of his countrymen . |
| 8 | ‘ Not eating nor drinking anything , not even so much as a crumb . |
| 9 | For our part , we appeared to take for granted the Germans ' total ignorance of our presence , for we had no air-raid drill , nor did we have a single air-raid shelter , slit-trench , sandbag blast-wall , nor even so much as a steel helmet — only a large poster which read : |
| 10 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |
| 11 | When the big day comes the Doom Diver prepares by strapping on his wings which he makes himself ( no Doom Diver trusts any other Goblin to make his wings and gets very angry if anyone else should even so much as touch them ) . |
| 12 | They mark our perception of that fact , and are not to be taken as carrying theory with them-not even so much theory , perhaps , as is suggested by William James in speaking of a " dualism " of " mind knowing and thing known " . |
| 13 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 14 | I approach slowly so that the animals will not be taken by surprise and panic into a rush for the sea , but even so several of the younger seals take fright and slide into the water . |
| 15 | Even so this attribute of mind has a biological basis , and intercalates with thought forms of a very different nature . |
| 16 | We do not know how many mares have a second hybrid foal , but even so this figure seems unusually high . |
| 17 | Even so this sequence of events is very unlikely to happen and occurs some million times slower than would have been the case if there were neutrons there to start with . |
| 18 | But even so this is not perceived as a particular lack in other countries . |
| 19 | In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers . |
| 20 | Considerable investment in the Spanish coal industry is underway but even so most of the increased supplies needed to meet projected levels of demand , will have to be imported . |
| 21 | the group 's not even together any more , it 's weird |
| 22 | At this season of the year we should remind ourselves of the parable that neighbours are not simply the people who live next door , rich friends , or even merely those with whom we agree . |
| 23 | Erm but finally , I 'm a Liberal Democrat , I 'm proud to be one , I was in the Alliance before , an S D P member it turns out , I 'm a great admirer of the present leader , Paddy Ashdown , and I think he , and all of us , have done wonders since the dismal days in late eighty seven , when our opinion poll rating was Well single figures and not even necessarily that bigger single figure . |
| 24 | Even better this year than last , though maybe that 's just an illusion . |
| 25 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 26 | If you 've spare people or even just another pair of hands , you ring their second numbers as well just to block the lines and it never hurts to put a few idiot inquiries through to the dealing house main switchboard . ’ |
| 27 | They would like to see traffic calming ramps or even just more signs reminding drivers of the speed limit . |
| 28 | Anyone I see , even just some boy in the Tube , some man , I think what would he be like in bed . |
| 29 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 30 | The Cambridge Board also had its own resident tutor in the county even thus few opportunities for development were missed in the county even though thy LEAs support was limited to specific grant-aid for classes and courses provided by the district and the Cambridge Board . |