Example sentences of "not even a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even a question of the temptation to give up . |
| 2 | No pain , no sprain ; not even a yelp . |
| 3 | In extremity , with nowhere to go , and not even a believed theory to wear or hold his mind 's hand ( ‘ what will you run away with ? ’ ) , |
| 4 | Today there is again a global capital market , but no gold standard , no fixed exchange rates , for Britain not even a European Monetary System . |
| 5 | The market signals proved totally wrong as Dead Certain drifted out ominously in the betting and Chimes Of Freedom was backed as if defeat was not even a remote possibility . |
| 6 | ‘ But so rotten has the policy proved that not even a ‘ taxpayer bail-out ’ could save it . |
| 7 | But not even a whisper came from the room . |
| 8 | No one moving , not a man nor a woman , not a car or a motor bike , not even a dog barking under the sickle moon which shone in an opalescent sky surrounded by a diadem of stars . |
| 9 | Not even a little bit — no matter how tempting it seems . ’ |
| 10 | In Romania , however , there was not even a ripple when Mr Gorbachev went to Bucharest to preside over a Warsaw Pact summit in July . |
| 11 | His Chief Staff Officer was not even a full member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee , the chairmanship of which was rotated between the three Service ‘ Chiefs ’ . |
| 12 | Not even a plea from his six-year-old granddaughter to let Big Daddy go could free him . |
| 13 | But , in the main , westerners fear a spell in the east will mean a kink in their careers , or that life will be too grey ( ‘ not even a decent pub ’ , groaned one civil servant back from an eastern town he decided not to work in ) . |
| 14 | No other government , so the argument runs , not even a completely freely elected one ( Poland 's election last year was only partly free ) , could have detonated Big Bang and survived . |
| 15 | She was not at all good-looking , or graceful , or winning , but a mere maiden ; possibly not even a country girl , but a London servant at the great house of Burdcrop nearby . |
| 16 | I just do n't like machines with a mind of their own — not even a moped ! |
| 17 | I bet he 's not even a medical doctor either . ’ |
| 18 | There was no movement , not even a twitch of the curtains , and no sound breaking the sleepy summer silence . |
| 19 | Not even a world-beating time . |
| 20 | I had my own experience years ago with your cousin 's Uncle Merritt , and he was not even a relation of ours . |
| 21 | Automatically I began trying to accommodate my ideas to those of the police , the experts ; trying to find some reason why a man after rabbits should have no gun , not even a piece of wire or string about him . |
| 22 | So that not even a sparrow shall fall to the ground unnoticed by Him ’ . |
| 23 | Not a single raised forefinger ; not a flicker of a catalogue ; not even a blink . |
| 24 | Although SHe suffered a disquieting disappointment when Jahsaxa told hir Malamute would not be coming back ( not even a goodbye ! ) , it was probably for the best . |
| 25 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 26 | Not even a highly-publicised- and subsequently denied-exchange between her and jealous rival Wendy James of the band Transvision Vamp — Wendy : ‘ I do n't know how they vote for that Aussie Bimbo , she sounds like my dog . ’ |
| 27 | It was not even a large house , only tall , with long flights of steep stairs , and had two rooms on each of the four floors . |
| 28 | Now , unless she could rescue herself , she had not even a place on the outside of Mrs Browning 's life and what troubled her most was that she cared . |
| 29 | ‘ Not even a million , ’ he says , casting doubt on Hitler 's gas chambers . |
| 30 | NOT even a clutch of famous hotels including The Savoy , Claridge 's and The Connaught could help The Savoy Group escape the full effects of war and recession which prompted a 78 p.c. slump in pre-tax profit to £2.3m during 1991 , writes Karen Cooper . |