Example sentences of "[noun] beyond even " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is life the countervailing force , now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins , which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann ? |
| 2 | He raised the status and majesty of the royal household beyond even the limit set by Diocletian , which included an acceptance of Christianity in a purely formal sense , since it is very doubtful if he understood its true meaning . |
| 3 | ‘ By God , he goes a degree beyond even what I had thought , ’ said Iago , roused and vindicated , ‘ to warn you not to put your trust in princes and councillors . |
| 4 | To give it to a child would seem unnaturally insensitive ; to assume it oneself would argue a capacity for self-inflicted wounds beyond even Onyx 's nature . |
| 5 | But if we want to consider how life arose , we have to look back a further thousand million years beyond even the earliest micro-fossils , to a time when the earth was completely lifeless and still cooling after its birth . |
| 6 | Together with Kylie 's talent and ambition , the situation offered a recipe for riches beyond even their wildest dreams . |
| 7 | Proof of that is a rigorous R&D programme and a constant reappraisal of production and quality control beyond even the demands of the British Standard licence . |
| 8 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |