Example sentences of "even [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw his grave when I took a short cut through the churchyard — a modest , friendly , even jolly little grave , where in summer moon-daisies and red clover grew , and quaking grass which little children call shivery-shakes . |
| 2 | Invocations of popular support or consent may be baseless and even blatantly dishonest . |
| 3 | For years she had turned a calm , expressionless face on the world — quiet , distant , not even blatantly cold , because that would have been a challenge to some men . |
| 4 | Moralists are , by definition , inclined to deal in absolutes and to be uncomfortable with pragmatic accommodation , but political leadership in the United States requires bargaining skills and , ‘ calls for actions such as compromise , renunciation , face saving of oneself , which are morally ambiguous or even downright immoral to people with morally rigorous standards . |
| 5 | Its main raison d'etre is to let you do silly , impressive and even downright offensive things to your boring old Windows icons and the desktop . |
| 6 | Of these , a quarter took exception to general unfriendliness among the staff and management , while 16% found the staff ‘ offhand , indifferent , surly or even downright offensive and insulting ’ . |
| 7 | To some extent the notion of academic scepticism is a caricature or even downright inaccurate ; the advancement of knowledge requires emotional commitment just as much as detachment , and it is the ground-rules of public research rather than the temperament of academics which sustain objective criticism . |
| 8 | Oh , sometimes it was irritating , even downright infuriating to look round and see him just a couple of paces away , but she only had to look into those dark eyes to feel that treacherous quiver of desire deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 9 | A good organiser is totally objective , even downright hard-hearted in choosing venue , style , speakers and programme . |
| 10 | Even the rules of social politeness , which suggest that we should not burden others with our problems , will lead us all to respond to enquiries after our health with an automatic ‘ Very well , thank you ’ when often we may be feeling poorly or even downright miserable . |
| 11 | The distinctive emphasis then in all elite theory accounts is on multiple causation in social development — the influence of a diversity of factors such as economic change and property relations , religions and ideological systems , political and military leadership , technological change , environmental or even wholly fortuitous factors . |
| 12 | Discovering Miss Danziger to be familiar — even intimately familiar — with every blade of grass on Møn , his curiosity had been aroused . |
| 13 | The RUC was excluded from policy making on security and even most administrative decisions of consequence . |
| 14 | The law of libel will not correct all or even most false statements . |
| 15 | This is a familiar , even rather worn-out and wearisome form of irony . |
| 16 | I should say that for us revenue services , ordinary database services do come first keeping the tax level does come second and the prestige projects , even rather good ones like the market square project definitely come third . |
| 17 | Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements . |
| 18 | To me , it all seemed quite natural and even rather exciting — if a bit strange , but then no stranger than any other activities or preoccupations belonging to the grown-up world . |
| 19 | Mr Bumble stopped for a moment , amazed and even rather frightened by this change in Oliver . |
| 20 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |
| 21 | It was haphazard , and surprising , and even rather funny , it was the nature of the times . |
| 22 | With the exception of Costa Rica , these countries have recent histories of domination by authoritarian or colonial regimes , and of insurgency and resistance or even outright civil war . |
| 23 | There was a time , no doubt — it must have been before 1948 , when the United Kingdom itself abolished allegiance as the basis of citizenship — when the pretence of daughter monarchies around the globe was harmless and even arguably beneficial . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the importance of the outcome of the case to B himself , if it is even arguably inconsistent with the Convention , then there is the prospect of yet another case from this country going to Strasbourg . |
| 25 | Jon-Tex High Build ( in nine colours ) is a ready-mixed , water-based paint , which gives even badly weathered masonry a heavy-duty finish in one coat . |
| 26 | 1.10 It appears that nearly all languages make at least one division in the words of their vocabulary , morphologically or syntactically , or in both ways , between those which commonly do instantiate and those which can not instantiate entities ; the former are traditionally called nouns , and there is a very high degree of intuitive agreement in cross-linguistic identification of nouns precisely because speakers of even widely different cultures are disposed to agree in what they regard as entities rather than properties . |
| 27 | Glancing with irritation at the cocky girl who was n't even properly French but a bourgeoise English snob with no clue about what was what . |
| 28 | His ideas on economic policy , as on other matters , may have been overly simplistic or even fundamentally erroneous , but the fact that he had a vision of the America he wished to bring about was a strength he possessed , one that many other presidents and presidential candidates have lacked . |
| 29 | I do n't know why I ca n't , but fashionable clothes , sensible clothes , or even elegantly outrageous clothes , would , I think , make you fade , make you ordinary , and you quite clearly are n't . ’ |
| 30 | For the first and almost the only time in the Second World War , there was what can fairly be described as a generally pervading popular ‘ war mood ’ , disdaining any premature and presumed over-generous peace with Britain , and even somewhat disappointed with Hitler 's new and ‘ final ’ peace offer of 19 July , aimed at assuaging world opinion . |