Example sentences of "that even [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was found that even existing shareholders had had a very limited knowledge of the savings schemes that investment trusts offer . |
| 2 | The rank and file pointed out that even skilled workshop men earned only 12 million roubles , but administrative heads got 45 million : ‘ it 's like the old monarchical structure . ’ |
| 3 | But he then recalled that even tiny amounts of certain high polymers , like polyoxyethylene , dissolve in water to make it very slippery indeed . |
| 4 | It concerned the toxic effects of atmospheric lead and was characterised by a series of comments like ‘ It 's claimed that even low levels of lead can cause brain damage ’ , ‘ It 's been difficult to get conclusive evidence ’ , ‘ There 's a whole lot of evidence ’ , ‘ Yes but there is conflicting evidence ’ , all delivered without any one of the four speakers actually providing figures to explain what the concern and disagreement was all about . |
| 5 | I shall suggest however that the philosophical framework which allowed the fathers to have a Christology which could be in some way inclusive of women has disappeared ; and moreover that even patristic Christology does not solve the problem . |
| 6 | Opinion surveys showed that public ownership won few votes for Labour and that even many loyal supporters disapproved ofthe party 's commitment to further nationalization . |
| 7 | Professor Noble of the University of California School of Medicine states that even two or three drinks four times a week reduces mental faculty and diminishes the ability to accomplish many different thinking tasks . |
| 8 | Harris ( 1984 ) shows that even two varieties which are held by their own speech communities to be related dialects may actually have very different underlying grammatical systems : " deep-seated structural divergences [ may ] exist between varieties which are intuitively felt to be dialects of the same language " ( Harris 1984 : 304 ) . |
| 9 | The activities are recorded on the cassette , so that even non-specialist English teachers will be confident that their pupils are exposed to the correct pronunciation . |
| 10 | One surprising aspect of the recall results was that they did not seem to be related to previous knowledge of the junctions , it had seemed possible that even simple junctions would be memorable if they had not been previously encountered . |
| 11 | This level of prescription is valuable in safeguarding electoral procedures from ambiguity but it does mean that even simple changes require complicated amendments to a great many legislative minutiae . |
| 12 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |
| 13 | He was being totally homosexual too , except that even that was a pose , a ruse , a way of self-presentation . |
| 14 | We think that even that extra price would be good value for many consumers , in terms both of peace of mind and of security against the real risk of serious money troubles . |
| 15 | ‘ Child , ’ said Cadfael , after a long and thoughtful silence , ‘ do not deceive yourself that even that would still every tongue . |
| 16 | His face fell and he began to sob as he came fully awake and remembered that even that was no longer true . |
| 17 | Does he agree with the Prime Minister who told me in a letter this week that even that does not justify a special economic initiative or does he agree with local industry which is crying out for a partnership with Government to take Britain out of recession ? |
| 18 | But in February that even that 's changing |
| 19 | Lindsey sighed heavily , wishing she had never met Niall Grant , and knew that even that was n't true . |
| 20 | And from a few basic observations we have learned that even all may be relative . |
| 21 | ‘ The truth is that even one drink can impair driving performance . |
| 22 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 23 | ‘ It is very evident that since the publication of the paperback the campaign against it has subsided , to such an extent that even one of my most hardline critics , the British Muslim Dr Kalim Siddiqui , was recently quoted in the Guardian as saying it is time to forgive and forget , which is a rather extraordinary volte-face from someone who was until recently asking for my head on a plate . |
| 24 | The master manufacturers of Manchester wish that prices might always be high enough to enforce a general industry ; to keep the hands employed six days for a week 's work ; as they find that even one idle day , in the chance of it being a drunken one , damages all the other five , or rather the work of them . |
| 25 | If a payment in is made less than 21 days before the trial , and is not accepted , the court is entitled to take the fact and amount of the payment in into account in exercising its discretion as to costs ( King v Weston-Howell [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 375 ) , although it should be noted that in Bowen v Mills and Knight Ltd [ 1973 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 580 it was held that even one day less was not enough to protect the defendant in costs . |
| 26 | As for the moral angle , I can hardly see that even muscular Christianity can underwrite such a sport . |
| 27 | Such studies show that even freshly-prepared samples are often strikingly contaminated . |
| 28 | Naylor ( 1986 ) , for example , notes that even General Electric itself ( as well as Xerox and Texas Instruments ) ran into difficulties with its portfolio-grid analysis because of the existence of interdependencies . |
| 29 | I discovered to my surprise that even certain cough mixtures are banned . |
| 30 | I would argue that it was this domestic response-signalling that even moderate and gradual reform was unacceptable to the Cuban elite — which was the most immediate cause of the shift in Castro 's strategy . |