Example sentences of "even so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so many years after the Spanish Civil War , the Communist tag brings reactions of fear and violence to many of his countrymen . |
| 2 | Even so unsentimental a man as Sir Donald Cameron was completely in awe of the Browne legend . |
| 3 | In view of the king 's highly expensive schemes for securing allies in the Low Countries , however , even so substantial a grant was likely to prove insufficient . |
| 4 | ‘ Not eating nor drinking anything , not even so much as a crumb . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | But if I dare to retaliate … if even so much as a minute flick of water lands on the Monster 's piggy-pink face … |
| 10 | Her cut of the money was n't even so great . |
| 11 | There are also a few special sailors ' clinics in ports , but even so two-thirds of patients will be seen and treated by private practitioners . |
| 12 | Formal logic can not cope with even so simple a contradiction , though we live with such conflicts as matters of course . |
| 13 | ( Though even so simple a word will conjure a variety of different images , depending upon the canine preferences of the reader . ) |
| 14 | Tall and strong , he was unusual in regularly bowling from wide of the crease , sometimes even so wide that his hand could not be seen against the sightscreen , which obviously caused the batsman trouble . |
| 15 | Even so young Maggie was not a child to cheat ; it did not occur to her to prise the egg open , only to stay longer in the bath and to forget to take the soap out of the water , when she climbed out herself , pink and skinny . |
| 16 | Note how specific his criticisms are , and how he always , even so young and immature , boosts the designer 's confidence by throwing in praise too . |
| 17 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 18 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 19 | It is frightfully difficult to make inexperienced pilots realise the necessity of even so small a formation as two aircraft keeping one up above looking out while the other is attacking the Hun . |
| 20 | Even so lucid a director as Trevor Nunn , however , has trouble in making complete sense of a work which appears to welcome wholesale destruction with open arms . |
| 21 | Philip 's reluctance to risk battle helps to explain why even so famous a soldier as Richard never fought a battle in Europe , with the possible exception of his " battle " against Vulgrin of Angoulême 's mercenaries in 1176 — but that was probably a slaughter rather than a battle . |
| 22 | Even so one or two buildings already on the site including part of the Tithe barn and the Chapel were adapted and pressed into service . |
| 23 | She would have known him anywhere by the very set of his head , the mere shape of him , even so cramped and disabled . |
| 24 | Even so eccentric a character as D. V. Karakozov , who attempted to assassinate Alexander II in 1866 , had gained direct experience while serving as an assistant to one of the peace arbiters appointed to work out the details of the Emancipation settlement . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Even so this attribute of mind has a biological basis , and intercalates with thought forms of a very different nature . |
| 27 | We do not know how many mares have a second hybrid foal , but even so this figure seems unusually high . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But even so this is not perceived as a particular lack in other countries . |
| 30 | 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 . |