Example sentences of "even [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 You still looked nine thirty and then could you make even or did you have to wait around ?
2 Unfortunately even where fitted , dpc 's can easily be fractured or by-passed by ground movement , bad workmanship or by the plain ignorance of builders or owners .
3 Typically it hinders ‘ real ’ participation : opinion , even where solicited , invariably has ‘ career implications ’ .
4 More bad luck years even than breaking a mirror .
5 But it also suggests that the tendency people have to favour quick repayment is stronger even than suggested by the majority stated preference ( for quick repayment versus small instalments ) .
6 But even that failed to disturb Ferguson 's philosophy .
7 The only sound in the night was the soft rustling of the trees in the night wind , but to their nervously attuned hearing even that carried a note of underlying menace , especially with the thought of the prowling killer pack uppermost in their minds .
8 but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible
9 He had n't realised pregnancy was such a dislocating experience , or even that getting married itself would cause such an upheaval .
10 No , even that fell short of truth ; there are degrees that can not be accurately plotted .
11 Even that surprised me until I found out afterwards that George had known about it all along ; I suppose they did n't want to risk him bringing it up first .
12 But even that had not been discussed in detail at home .
13 Mungo crouched and ran his hands through the grass wondering about the bird 's skull , but even that had been removed .
14 His relationship with Don Roberto had been strictly business and even that had been in abeyance since Trent 's posting to Ireland .
15 But the gloom did n't lift , so she tried to make a triumph of running away , but even that had lost its glory .
16 Yes , even that had prepared her .
17 He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror .
18 Only the graffiti was of the present , but even that had its roots in ancient hatreds .
19 He had mixed laudanum with his wine , but even that had not helped .
20 Even that had not touched her .
21 She heard the noise of the start but not even that had the power to disturb her thoughts , which were totally turned inwards on to herself .
22 She had the echo of his morning telephone call in her memory , and even that seemed faint and distant .
23 Somehow even that seemed suddenly consistent .
24 And even that seemed a but thinking of the old tramp and he was in a a sort of all belaggered looking way .
25 This is an important topic ; it often happens that an approximate reciprocal of a matrix A is known : perhaps from a rough calculation , or one in which an error has been made , or even that belonging to a neighbour matrix of A. Refinement of this approximate reciprocal is then required .
26 In the 1950s and 1960s presidents were accorded , in American terms , great leeway in foreign policy , but even that came nowhere near the extraordinary freedom to manoeuvre enjoyed by British prime ministers in such matters .
27 It has missed only one edition since the civil war started and even that came out a day late .
28 Behind the old lady in the hall stood the little brass dinner gong , but even that looked much smaller than in memory .
29 One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes .
30 I did show in the Serpentine Gallery in 1975 but even that presented a problem of prudery which I did n't experience on the continent .
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