Example sentences of "[noun] that even [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faye began to struggle to sit up , but Belinda forestalled her , relieved that the other woman had n't commented on the tired bags beneath her eyes that even make-up could n't fully conceal . |
| 2 | Such has been the volume of turnover in personnel from Pakistan that even Ulster 's two inter-pro debutantes at Whitechurch Park can harbour claims for an Ireland place . |
| 3 | Mrs Crumwallis 's medical ministrations were so notorious for their vagaries that even Toby , a healthy young man with no great tolerance of the sick , would not willingly subject a boy to them . |
| 4 | Such was the success of El Cid 's enlightened rule that even Alfonso began to follow suit , ceasing his raids on the Andalusian Moors and seeking treaties rather than warfare . |
| 5 | A Great White Shark , because it 's a livebearer that even cichlid fanatics would have to respect . |
| 6 | The industry which has flourished since Classical times at Torre del Greco south of Naples has developed such expertise that even corals of Japanese origin are imported there for fabrication . |
| 7 | Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it . |
| 8 | The Young Conservatives involved , intoned Naughtie , a strong note of disapproval in his voice , were mainly Scottish West Coast , former members of the Federation of Conservative Students , a body so high on lager that even Mr Norman Tebbit had been obliged , when Party chairman , to disband them . |
| 9 | Her tightly tailored strapless dress matched her lips exactly , as did the shoes that even Belinda recognised as highest quality Italian leather , the kind of leather with a fine grain that was almost like satin to the touch . |
| 10 | It 's the suicidal greatness of America , I think Annabel means , to have raised opportunism to such a point that even people who would n't dream of ditching anything else feel that this has to be plucked out . |
| 11 | Yet there is a danger here in over-gilding the memory of Attlee 's Whitehall — a danger that even familiarity with the formerly secret record of his government can not entirely eradicate . |
| 12 | AT THE very moment that even members of the UDM are admitting ( belatedly ) Arthur Scargill was correct all along , Frank Morris ( October 20th ) berates him for the ‘ vicious attack he unleashed upon innocents during the Heath administration ’ . |
| 13 | Nature is likely to follow art , art here being the pure abstraction of Stavrogin 's remark that even negation is more than he can manage . |
| 14 | She 's about the only person that even Crumwallis is reluctant to employ . |
| 15 | There have been so many changes in education that even teachers find it hard to keep up — so professionals as well as parents will welcome the Parents ' Information Checklist , £4.50 from the Advisory Centre for Education , 1b Aberdeen Studios , 22/24 Highbury Grove , N5 2EA . |
| 16 | They left Smithfield , taking a different route back into the city , past the ditch which smelt so rank and fetid that even Cranston , filled to his gills with wine , stopped to gag and cover his nose . |
| 17 | Chopin 's early C minor Sonata provides reassuring evidence that even geniuses take time to find their true voice and identity . |
| 18 | There is also considerable evidence that even people entitled to , for instance , free glasses , must still contribute significant amounts to the cost , because the value of the benefit has not kept up with the cost of glasses . |
| 19 | I was talking to Maazel on the morning before the performance , having battled through a snowstorm that even Puccini , in all the Pelléas -like flurries of Fanciulla 's Second Act , could hardly have exaggerated . |
| 20 | Rumours were circulating last week that even OSF/1 , its nominal raison d'etre , would be given short shrift in those re-prioritisations . |
| 21 | In one field the soil was arid ; nothing seemed able to grow there but a sort of grass that even sheep disdained , and thistles a hobbled donkey was sampling . |
| 22 | FoE claim that even EC standards are inadequate and that the government has been fogging the issue in the run up to privatisation . |
| 23 | We are confronted with a man whose sole aim in life is to manipulate and destroy others , a dedication to evil that even Macbeth and his wife do not match . |
| 24 | ‘ I know now that there is something between a mother and her baby that even time can not take away . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the scales at which population estimates are often required means that even EDs are too coarse for risk assessments . |
| 26 | When Harry smeared away the blood from his face and opened his eyes again it was to see Isambard standing with one foot flattening the whip to the floor , and the bronze lantern of his face blazing with such an intensity of dangerous , silent fury that even Harry , who was no longer threatened , shrank with sympathetic dread . |
| 27 | The scientific establishment can resist a new idea with such complacent zeal that even Joshua with his trumpets would have no effect . |
| 28 | He had heard the speech often , not only from Joseph , but from those like him , committed , embittered men with a vision that even Patrick with all the wisdom of his twenty years , knew would never be achieved in his lifetime . |
| 29 | Travel is so much the norm that even family celebrations such as marriage have become part of the travel business . |
| 30 | Pearce was standing in front of him , talking angrily and pointing to those doors as two other men began to push clumsily inside , admitting a gale of icy air that even Cardiff could feel from his position . |