Example sentences of "[prep] even the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butler and Stokes " challenge any image of the elector as an informed spectator " , noting how " understanding of policy issues falls away very sharply indeed as we move outwards from those at the heart of political decision-making to the public at large " , and how attitudes are formed towards even the best-known policy issues to only a " limited degree " . |
| 2 | Exhaustion is a permanent feature preventing the completion of even the most simple task . |
| 3 | When you think about it , the beauty of even the smartest kitchen is only skin deep . |
| 4 | The contextualizing of even the simplest poem has no obvious point to end at , once begun . |
| 5 | stock responses like ‘ well , you know , we do n't really think about it that much , actually ’ , send the hearts of even the least demanding interviewer plummeting into their boots . |
| 6 | Behind the scenes they have been steadily resisting , for many years , the introduction of even the most basic and cheap safety measures such as cab radios . |
| 7 | A salad of even the simplest ingredients is enlivened by an innovative dressing . |
| 8 | In many tuna sets most encircled dolphins are successfully released , but sometimes adverse weather conditions or equipment malfunctions can hamper the efforts of even the best-intentioned and most experienced crews . |
| 9 | It sucked all warmth and courage from his body , leaving him chilled to the bone and fearful of even the smallest movement in the big house . |
| 10 | She was not the whore who lurks under the demure exterior of even the most respectable wife and mother . |
| 11 | The principal claim to greatness of even the popes themselves , before the mid-eleventh century , lay in their conduct as bishops of Rome , building churches , organizing poor relief , and resisting the attempts of every tinpot contender for the empire to dominate the city and its people . |
| 12 | I was reminded of stories about some immigrant Irish who arrived in America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger , bereft of even the basic skills of domestic cookery . |
| 13 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 14 | MERE mention of the name Zeljko Raznjatovic , better known by his sobriquet , Arkan , is enough to send shivers down the spine of even the most battle-hardened Croatian fighter , writes Michael Montgomery in Belgrade . |
| 15 | The most important point is that relatively complicated life habits can be inferred from a careful consideration of the anatomy of even the simplest looking animal , particularly when there are related , similarly adapted animals for comparison . |
| 16 | Safety requirements demand , among other things , the installation of multiple back-up systems for emergency cooling of the reactor , as well as constant checks by regulatory bodies on the standard of even the smallest weld . |
| 17 | But today , considerable strides are being made in the teaching and care of even the severely mentally handicapped , so that they are learning to do far more for themselves . |
| 18 | Most of even the best material is second-hand , typically refracted through the rewording and prejudice of interviewers with strong points of view of their own . |
| 19 | One of the features of the conflict which has made its resolution so difficult has been the inability of any of the protagonists — internal or external , powerful or weak — to mould events or other players to its will , and the ability of even the weakest players to throw a spanner into the works of both allies and adversaries . |
| 20 | The conduct of the War required fiscal policies sufficiently egalitarian to appease the conscience of even the most austere socialist . |
| 21 | The local diocese has appealed to the water authority to do something about it ; but something as elemental as the ever-moving Severn is beyond the resources of even the richest and most powerful water authority . |
| 22 | It is perhaps unsurprising that the matter should have been challenged in the courts , given that it was an affront to the requirements of even the most basic conception of the rule of law . |
| 23 | South of Iceland , the Atlantic Ocean stretches out devoid of even the tiniest of islands for thousands of kilometres . |
| 24 | The timing of when to do the turn is particularly important in anything other than in dead flat water , since the slope of even the smallest wave can be used to bank off , thereby helping to maintain speed . |
| 25 | To be described as surplus to requirements , perhaps after many years of loyal and diligent service , can cripple the self-esteem of even the most resilient person . |
| 26 | This is true to a certain extent of even the most specialist feeders amongst the owls like the great grey owl or the short-eared owl , while most other species adapt their dietary requirements to a wide range of seasonal , climatic , regional and ecological variants . |
| 27 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |
| 28 | I know it is difficult to discuss a scientific topic nowadays without dragging in recombinant DNA somehow , but I can not conceive of even the most tenuous connection between genetic engineering and the quantum theory . |
| 29 | This special place of the Sun in the Galaxy , if confirmed , certainly alters our picture of even the recent geological history of our planet , since we have only just emerged from a spiral arm . |
| 30 | Deprived nowadays of their railway and most of the buses , the village school closed and the loss of even the village postman , the villagers are determined the feast will survive . |