Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] even [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN a lightning storm stopped the transmission of a televised debate between Arizona 's two candidates for governor , Fife Symington and Terry Goddard , locals joked that even God was disgusted by Arizona politics . |
| 2 | For example , Bullock and Gelman ( 1979 ) found that even three-year-olds are able to distinguish between causes and effects . |
| 3 | They found that even three-year-olds were able to use the matching rule in a task which involved judging whether an agent had meant to achieve a particular result . |
| 4 | She found that even three-year-olds judged a character to be more pleased when the result of his action matched his intention than when there was a mismatch between the intention and the result . |
| 5 | Parson thought this was ridiculous , but he realized that even days before he would flee , the Shah was unable to acknowledge that power had slid from him like snow from the mountains in spring . |
| 6 | Mo agreed that even politicians could not please everybody and moved to talk to 31-year-old Sandra Gordon-Morgan , a part-time dressmaking teacher who lost her job when the local authority cut its adult education budget . |
| 7 | Although there was a time says Hayek ‘ when men believed that even language and morals had been ‘ invented' ’ by some genius of the past , everybody recognises now that they are the outcome of a process of evolution whose results nobody foresaw or designed' . |
| 8 | Rescrawling Tommy Titmouse on her list I was interested to see how long it had grown , and I noticed that even Mercer had n't been let in without signing . |
| 9 | A research project carried out in 1979 showed that even people who drink moderately experience impairment of memory and this becomes greater as they age and as their consumption of alcohol increases . |
| 10 | The results indicated that even three-year-olds consistently selected the first event as the cause . |
| 11 | Here , they stopped , the soldiers trying to hide their fear and Corbett sensed that even Sir James Selkirk was frightened to be there . |