Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] even the " in BNC.

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1 Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough .
2 After two days even the smallest decision could become an exhausting battle of wills .
3 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 .
4 In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop .
5 With most courses even the keenest students are put off by what is artificial or repetitive , dry or academic .
6 In economic affairs even the absolutist rulers of central and eastern Europe found themselves abolishing serfdom and dismantling the traditional apparatus of economic state controls and corporate privileges . ]
7 The British view that membership of the EEC was in essence about trade persisted through the signing in 1986 of the Single European Act , though in this case even the main text that was agreed ranged rather wider than the limits that the British had set themselves .
8 These texts share a fighting tone and a conviction that established forms of literary study , and in some cases even the concept of literature itself , have to be overthrown .
9 Feudal organizations provided historical precedents for and in some cases even the institutional forms for modern corporatism ( Maier , 1981 ; Kocka , 1981 ) .
10 In some cases even the national interest would have to be considered .
11 And as the wealth increases in absolute terms even the poorer classes , those who feed but do not run the machine , begin to improve their social conditions and economic power .
12 But in practical terms even the so-called ‘ tactical ’ or ‘ battlefield ’ nuclear weapons by their nature have indiscriminate effects .
13 Yet in one sense even the United States might be said to have been part of an economic system controlled by Europe down to 1914 in that she remained a capital-importing nation , and that capital came from Europe .
14 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 .
15 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 ) .
16 So often on this project even the oldest locals interested in what I was doing had no memory , actual or handed down , of the people mentioned by JTR .
17 When the news of his victory in the Battle of Lagos , as it is known , reached London on 6 September even the perpetually anxious Duke of Newcastle gave way to optimism .
18 ( At that time even the most optimistic in the UUUC camp assumed that some of the latter would be returned . )
19 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 .
20 At some frequencies even the best optical fibre available will absorb or scatter light , whereas at other frequencies they will pass light with almost no attenuation or scattering .
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