Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] even the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting these sections is a skilled job , requiring the services of a technician in a specially-equipped workshop , so there can be no question of using even the most portable of microscopes to study rocks in the field . |
| 2 | There is , therefore , little tradition yet of using even the growing numbers of full text CD-ROM databases let alone those embodying the first elements of multimedia . |
| 3 | One scholar holds that the many " changes and corrections [ to which the statute on schools was subjected ] confirm that the government had no serious intention of promoting even the most elementary primary education among the people " . |
| 4 | The French military authorities held that , since their army was incapable of invading even the demilitarised Rhineland , the reoccupation would make no real difference . |
| 5 | The presentation of a list of ‘ achievements ’ , as above , plus friendly media coverage will go far towards moving even the most obdurate council in your favour . |
| 6 | Tonight , The Shamen prove themselves capable of moving even the most rigid of muscles . |
| 7 | Tonight , The Shamen prove themselves capable of moving even the most rigid of muscles . |
| 8 | According to Mordechai Vanunu , who is serving 18 years in solitary confinement , Israel has more than 200 nuclear warheads capable of reaching even the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | How can we allow any weakening in our resolve to give meaning to the watchword ‘ life before death ’ for the countless thousands , especially among Africa 's children , who have little chance of reaching even the first milestone ? |
| 10 | Another advantage is that self development is capable of converting even the most boring situation into a learning opportunity . |
| 11 | By the 1970s , the legislative process had altered enormously , but the only changes in House of Commons procedure have been to make it less capable of controlling even the old pattern of legislation . |
| 12 | Three joined together can form a ferry capable of carrying the Challenger tank , or they can be coupled to form a bridge capable of carrying even the heaviest Army loads . |
| 13 | When the regression was over , Barry was able to see that , because of his past experience , he had become terrified of showing even the slightest sign of aggression in this lifetime in case he once again lost control and reverted to his former self . |
| 14 | He collected a group of protective converts , and he had this knack of making even the most reasonable request look like persecution . |
| 15 | Before beginning even the simplest task , please take note of these brief safety guidelines . |
| 16 | Have you ever tried to read an Act and ended up wondering why Parliamentary draftsmen seem to delight in complicating even the simplest provision ? |
| 17 | God 's truth is meant to have a powerful effect in changing even the most deep seated of our attitudes , even attitudes like those of the early Jewish Christians towards the Gentiles which had centuries of cultural back-up to support them . |
| 18 | Recently released Home Office papers in fact show that the authorities drew back from prosecuting even the most blatant cases of anti-semitic propaganda both before and during the Second World War despite the fact that it was ostensibly being fought to destroy Hitlerism . |
| 19 | Moreover , the lack of adequate data collected by UDCs compounds problems in assessing even the government 's preferred narrow determinants of success and frustrates the systematic monitoring of the impact of their programmes . |
| 20 | There is certainly no reason to believe that the electricity industry generally wasted investment resources in the manner of , for example , the nationalised railway industry in the same period , which ( far from making even the minimal return required by the public sector ) incurred mounting annual losses , yet persisted in uneconomic investment programmes . |
| 21 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 22 | Sony are also guarded about the technical specification of their search and retrieval engine which means that potential publishers must enter into confidentiality agreements before receiving even the essential information on which to base their preliminary data preparation costs . |
| 23 | Mr Truman has made a number of discoveries and new attributions , not without correcting even the minutest mistake in the previous catalogue . |
| 24 | The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field . |
| 25 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |