Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] even the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professionalism , that was what counted — thorough , serious preparation for even the most informal and evanescent of undertakings . |
| 2 | The by-election provided a timely opportunity for even the least politically-minded people to express their disgust at the Munich settlement . |
| 3 | HURTLING down a mountain on skis can be a frightening experience for even the most able-bodied among us . |
| 4 | It 's a larger-than-life , non-stop , 24 hour-a-day resort that has a brash sort of charm and enough action for even the most demanding of socialites . |
| 5 | Predation by man on the bigger fish should , in theory , leave more small fish for the birds , but sadly , ‘ industrial ’ fishing for even the smallest and immature fish is a fact of life which has serious implications for the very existence of our sea-bird communities should it be allowed to go on unchecked . |
| 6 | The scope for the collector of autograph letters , manuscripts and historical documents is enormous and offers opportunities for even the most modest purse . |
| 7 | Deprived nowadays of their railway and most of the buses , the village school closed and the loss of even the village postman , the villagers are determined the feast will survive . |
| 8 | On the other hand , in the eyes of even the most loyal ministers and the foremost grand dukes and prelates , he was no holy man but a charlatan whose doctrine of ‘ redemption by sin ’ was but a thin veil for crude depravity . |
| 9 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 10 | In the middle of the century there was no agreement on the formulae of even the simpler chemical compounds , and many chemists felt that an atomic theory was merely a distraction : that chemists ought to stick at the ‘ equivalent weights ’ which gave accurate recipes , and not bother with attempts at explanation . |
| 11 | The communal redistribution of land , the heavy impositions of the State , the vulnerability of even the most successful household to the vagaries of the climate — all provided major obstacles to the emergence of households sufficiently enterprising to hire labour , invest and expand . |
| 12 | Exhaustion is a permanent feature preventing the completion of even the most simple task . |
| 13 | To be described as surplus to requirements , perhaps after many years of loyal and diligent service , can cripple the self-esteem of even the most resilient person . |
| 14 | Where space is particularly limited sliding mirrored doors prove very popular as they automatically create an illusion of spaciousness in even the smallest of rooms . |
| 15 | There is an approximation to this for all of these samples , but clearly there has been considerable bone loss from even the most complete bone assemblages . |
| 16 | This is taking a toll on even the savviest marketing machines , such as Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble ( P&G ) . |
| 17 | Is life the countervailing force , now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins , which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann ? |
| 18 | ‘ Nor I , ’ she countered , in a ridiculous attempt to even the score . |
| 19 | Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest . |
| 20 | Eva 's charm was having its effect on even the supposedly dour Scots . |
| 21 | However hard a head or a governing body may try to remain outside the arena of competition , the insistence of parent interests and community awareness and the effect on even the price of houses in a local estate agent 's listings will continue to make sure that parents believe that clever children , as measured in the national assessment , are produced by good schools and by good teachers . |
| 22 | But when several such businesses are aggregated at a dockside location the economy of scale offered by the worldwide container business can be put to good advantage both in cost and speed by even the smallest manufacturing unit . |
| 23 | Those who heard him lecture remarked on the way he seized on and illustrated the most interesting parts of his subject , so that he was intelligible to the novice and listened to with pleasure by even the best informed , generally leading his class unresistingly to the desired conclusion . |
| 24 | She was too tall and untidy , but her quality shone out like a light as she passed into the crowd , and the noise and the tension that are part of even the smallest race meeting . |
| 25 | The wasteful use of the bathrooms , for instance , can turn a summer holiday into a time of intense anxiety and the purchase of water by the lorry load may strain the budget of even the best-heeled family . |
| 26 | The purchase of water by the lorry load may strain the budget of even the best-heeled family . |
| 27 | Unemployment was abolished , class struggle overcome , and the living standards and cultural level of even the most backward of the country 's peoples transformed out of all recognition . |
| 28 | The enthusiasm of even the most committed staff can flag when routine work and unanticipated events distract teachers from the targets and task " ( DES 1989e:15 ) . |
| 29 | They witness to a process of realisation of the confusion , frustration , failure and partiality at the heart of even the best of human experience , let alone the worst , which makes them essentially accessible to all ; but they also witness to an awakening understanding of the fact that these are the very means of the experience of transformation . |
| 30 | It is true that it must be able to check the excesses of even the ruling class ; but Poulantzas also has to account for the tendency of capitalist states to favour capitalist interests . |