Example sentences of "[pron] even [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent work on the silver coinage has revealed a complex system of which even Domesday contains little trace . |
| 2 | It was an organic relationship which even anti-democrats like Aristotle endorsed . |
| 3 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 4 | It will only run native programs when it appears , which even IBM now admits will be probably in 1995 . |
| 5 | Polanyi , we saw earlier , has drawn attention to the ‘ tacit ’ knowledge by which even scientists with their supposedly elaborated codes proceed in their work . |
| 6 | This comprises the process of levelling , which involves the loss of marked and/or minority variants ; and the process of simplification , by means of which even minority forms may be the ones to survive if they are linguistically simpler , in the technical sense , and through which even forms and distinctions present in all the contributory dialects may be lost . |
| 7 | She wore an oatmeal flannel coat and skirt which even Alexandra could see was badly cut , and a heavily pleated cream blouse , the collar fastened with a huge hideous brooch made out of a green polished pebble set in silver . |
| 8 | Sure enough , against all the odds , and with our cameras back at the Rante , we were about to watch the " calling of the eels " , a rite barely referred to in the literature on the Toraja , and which even Werner had never seen . |
| 9 | The killing of Yakovlev , a couple of murders in Paris , and another incident which even Fedorov would have preferred to forget . |
| 10 | In the end the European side went into the 12 singles matches with a two point lead ( 9-7 ) but only after two Yorkshiremen had produced a rearguard action at the end of the day which even General Custer would have been proud of . |
| 11 | Thus in the scene where the Greek leaders visit Achilles in his tent , the oafish Ajax remains in prose , to which even Agamemnon descends . |
| 12 | But the designer writing on the camera body needlessly confuses the first-time user searching for the shutter-release pad , which even adults find hard to operate . |
| 13 | If Herod felt threatened by a recently born child , it can only have been because of what the child intrinsically was — a rightful king , for example , with a claim to the throne which even Rome , in the interests of peace and stability , might recognise . |
| 14 | Goals from Graham Stuart and Mick Harford added to their misery , which even Eric Young 's goal could n't ease . |
| 15 | Quantifying ‘ other factors than acidity ’ enabled the CEGB to push its theories at SWAP 's Royal Society launch , which even DoE officials described as a ‘ red herring ’ . |
| 16 | He points out that AT&T 's computer business has repeatedly failed , something which even AT&T admits . |
| 17 | But improved cooking instructions would neither identify or make safe those minority of models which even Mr Gummer admitted to needing ‘ more substantial changes of oven design . ’ |
| 18 | Even if you put aside America 's military performance , which even Mr Record considers flawless , the political outcome is not that bleak . |
| 19 | Yet if we deny the creature this understanding , which even Clark himself seems to acknowledge , yet insist with him that it nonetheless fears death , then it is in the distinctly paradoxical position of fearing something of which it could not , in any sense , be aware . |
| 20 | She ( 1967 , p. 300 ) broke with such an implicitly Arnoldian view of art as a ‘ criticism of life ’ and instead endorsed a Nietzschean aesthetic in which even ideas should function as ‘ sensory stimulants ’ and in which art is an extension of or a ‘ supplement ’ to life . |
| 21 | He is a drunkard and a profligate and has certain amorous peculiarities which even Marie — and sometimes the law — finds hard to tolerate . |
| 22 | By the mid-1960s the influence of Irish McCarthyism was beginning to wane and there was a generally more tolerant atmosphere , which even Derry shared . |
| 23 | The flaws which they are building into the system ( which even Phil is building into the system ) — the endemic morbidity of man and the lethal hostility of his environment — are not incidental but essential . |
| 24 | The point is that he has provided one ; and one which even Labour 's nationalist wing is little equipped to dispute . |
| 25 | The absence of rests can often give a dull , plodding effect , which even Bach could not avoid . |
| 26 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 27 | Despite statistics which reveal a reducing young population , only a very few employees will accept 40s and they are rare indeed who even interview 50s . |
| 28 | She even dabs at her own dribble ; daintily she does it , like she 's just finished dinner . |
| 29 | First day sales are going well , and that 's something even Victor Meldrew can believe . |
| 30 | Well there doing this for fund , of course funding for everything even church . |