Example sentences of "[vb pp] to even " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are guide-lines on standards of care but these are not always adhered to even when charges are high . |
| 2 | Salt occurs naturally in many foods and is added to even quite basic foods such as bread , so there is no need to add extra salt in cooking , or to food at the table . |
| 3 | Although three authorities objected to even hypothetically assuming that sufficient resources ( which they defined as money ) would be available , the extent to which respondents mentioned insufficient staff to cover staff absent from normal duties whilst attending off-the-job training ( rather than lack of any other resource ) , was striking . |
| 4 | Will my right hon. Friend find out what can be done to even up the balance ? |
| 5 | The famous trio of Eiger , Monch and Jungfrau loom over the pistes of tiny British-dominated Wengen , and are seen to even better advantage from even tinier Murren ( the one resort which genuinely is traffic-free ) . |
| 6 | And it had been little comfort to realise — since he clearly could n't be bothered to even make the effort to get in touch with her — that her marriage had obviously been a disastrous mistake from the very beginning . |
| 7 | So Britain is poorly equipped to even consider making any comparisons of the productivity or usefulness of research . |
| 8 | It all helped to even the odds . |
| 9 | A shamanist philosophy helped to even the odds against them , and they spread through the Aleutian Islands and along the Arctic coast of North America ( Figure 7.1 ) , forming the distinctive northern folk formerly known as Eskimo , now called Inuit in recognition of their pan-Arctic racial identity . |
| 10 | The Collector resorted to even more desperate remedies . |
| 11 | With the repatriation of around six million Japanese military and civilian personnel from overseas in the years 1945–7 , the rural population swelled to even greater proportions . |
| 12 | Stuart Gulliver , Chief Executive of Glasgow Development Agency , which is supporting the BVP along with Scottish Enterprise , said the lack of new firms in Scotland had become critical compared to even the rest of the UK , never mind Germany or parts of California . |
| 13 | Framed by the clear , blue waters of Adriatic and Ionian Seas , it forms the famed heel and spur of southern Italy — well known to even the most lazy geography pupil . |
| 14 | His father , who was still alive then , refused to even let Pietr see her . |
| 15 | Why had he refused to even begin until she was in France ? |
| 16 | Certainly , the technique of flatweaving — necessary to make cloth , blankets and kelims — can be traced to even older civilizations in the region , and it is anybody 's guess as to exactly when and where the notion of introducing a pile into flatwoven material first evolved . |
| 17 | In 1992 , used car values have fallen to even lower levels . |
| 18 | But although she opened her mouth to make it quite clear to her infuriating parent that she was not , never would be , and never wanted to even think about being in love with Luke Hunter , somehow the words would n't come . |
| 19 | Combinations of more than one B I -B II transition have also been attempted and always led to even greater energy losses . |
| 20 | Though certain crimes served to even out the distribution of power and income , other crimes had the opposite effect . |
| 21 | He spoke of his loneliness of heart and spirit that he was n't allowed to even talk to his love , and then , as though remembering that Rosemary had asked Leith to look after him , in his loneliness he suddenly asked Leith to have dinner with him . |
| 22 | In order to release $350 million in stand-by credits and clear the way for the injection of $1 billion in European Community funds , the International Monetary Fund originally demanded that the budget deficit be wiped out altogether and that public spending be subjected to even more stringent cuts than are planned . |
| 23 | To be of any practical use , an object made from a polymeric material must be able to retain its shape when subjected to even small tensions or compressions over long periods of time . |
| 24 | This regulatory code is put to even greater effect when it is used to turn an exchange of missiles between rioters and police into a surreal game of football in which the rules have been deliberately bent to give the ‘ opposing team ’ an unfair advantage ! |
| 25 | They 've started to even make jokes now . |
| 26 | Oh right , well definitely not employment staff because they 've not even managed to even |
| 27 | Well now , taking taking into account the fact that there are about three hundred schools here in Oxfordshire and there 's only one school so far that has chosen to even try to opt out , and it was defeated at that school , then I see that is erm a comment on the kind of Education Authority we have here . |
| 28 | Prout have over forty years of experience in design and construction of catamarans and as one would expect , superb attention has been paid to even the smallest detail making her comfortable and workable . |
| 29 | Being married to even a would-be politician involves many sacrifices which may achieve no more than being landed with a morose husband ( or wife ) hanging round the house for the next four or five years . |