Example sentences of "even to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Conservative government , if you believe their manifesto , ought not even to be considering putting money into dying private-sector firms , but Huerter employ a lot of people , many of whom voted for this government . |
| 2 | That was before he became too ill even to be propped . |
| 3 | Job satisfaction simply had n't increased ; in fact , people seemed surprised even to be asked to consider that devolution and job satisfaction might be related ! |
| 4 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 5 | The price of prosperity is that , even to be poor , you must have access to cash for essential serv-ices and taxes . |
| 6 | Rig the rules to prevent minority candidates getting nominated , because there 's no room for the Campaign Group left even to be heavily defeated in what passes for a free election in the new model Labour Party . |
| 7 | But it was impossible to tell now who had been speaking or even to be sure at which of the small crowded tables the speaker sat . |
| 8 | Yet there are always some rhetorical flourishes too imbecilic even to be considered ; it tells us something that this , apparently , was not one of them . |
| 9 | However , this pastoral mission is not only up against hardened heathens , but it also considers that some ought not even to be read the lesson . |
| 10 | The prisoner was forbidden all human rights , to communicate with his family , to be represented by a lawyer , to protest against the torture , or even to be put on trial . |
| 11 | Some thought that fundholding general practitioners had been given a perverse incentive not to spend money on their patients or even to be selective in the types of patient they enrolled on their list . |
| 12 | It is too near even to be within arm 's reach . ’ |
| 13 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 14 | Thus he considered the social sciences too messy to have a paradigm or even to be likely soon to acquire one . |
| 15 | To be a layman , even to be anticlerical , is not necessarily to be irreligious . |
| 16 | Edward , who had probably shrewdly observed that this pretentious lordling , though haughty in manner , was a vacillating and easily manipulated nonentity , did not trouble even to be civil to his puppet or to Scottish laws and traditions . |
| 17 | Others , like Bidault or de Gaulle , had no doubt : but for this even to be approximately true the contribution of her overseas territories was indispensable . |
| 18 | It would break her heart to have to go away , even to be wife to a king . |
| 19 | Alas , it is not given to most of us to be sort of genius Edgar Allan Poe was ( most of the time ) , or even to be able to walk in his footsteps like Conan Doyle , G.K. Chesterton , Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie , with those steps getting fainter and fainter along the way . |
| 20 | Incidentally , you will have shown your ability to accept a brief on either side , or even to be promoted to the Bench . |
| 21 | Too small even to be found on many maps , too hidden for any of its innocent affairs to be worthy of attention , Granard seemed no longer to be part of the priest 's past . |
| 22 | Well I , I , I have no comment I mean I just do n't underst I , I do n't know enough about it to , even to be |
| 23 | He loved her too much even to be able to imagine such a thing ; Pavel 's was the love of Judas , a devotion so great that it encompassed even betrayal . |
| 24 | He refused even to be tempted . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I am honoured even to be thought Inspector Rose 's Watson , ’ he said . |
| 26 | You 've no right to do any of this — no right even to be here . |
| 27 | Not only excluded from performing , the understudy was not even to be allowed to take part in the murder investigation . |
| 28 | How could she tell him that , while women all over the country would do just about anything even to be in the same room as him , she , Shannon Lea , did n't want to touch him ? |
| 29 | The latter he rejects because it is clear the Irish are too barbarous even to be Spanish , but he supports the former account of origins . |
| 30 | I was a member of his party , one of his retinue , and when the great Henry lashed out it was dangerous even to be in the same room as the king 's enemy . |