Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] even the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These can be used to sharpen skills of inference and to focus on underlying attitudes , prejudices and entrenched beliefs , about which even the subject himself may not have been fully conscious . |
| 2 | In many places the wild greenery formed a natural barrier through which even the dogs were unable to pass . |
| 3 | Not that many came on any sort of regular basis , much preferring the excitement of the streets to the acquisition of learning for which even the teacher herself , who had known far better days , considered they would have little use . |
| 4 | So there would be stray references and allusions in the feature articles to events of great consequence or intrinsic interest of which even the bird-brained wives of the garden suburbs of malai-land were cognisant but not 1 , Adolph Ng , BA ( Hons ) Toronto . |
| 5 | The ease with which even the bourgeois travel nowadays comes as an agony to one who has ‘ the Bosphorus in the soul ’ . |
| 6 | The frost freezes the water , not the vine , and a protective cocoon is formed , within which even the tenderest shoots remain safe . |
| 7 | There were of course major guidelines within which even the most idiosyncratic monarch would operate : security in the west , a steady probing towards outlets in the Baltic and the Black Sea , incremental expansion and pacification in the south-east . |
| 8 | But he also recognises a genuine wish among a notoriously apathetic electorate for an alternative to the failed sectarian system , upon which even the Alliance must rely for its existence . |
| 9 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 10 | Against the background of a Judaism in which even the Pharisees had become thoroughly materialistic , Jesus 's primary message in this whole area is of the danger of materialism . |
| 11 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 12 | The subject is one of great theoretical complexity , in which even the so-called experts find it easy not merely to disagree but to disagree about what questions to ask . |
| 13 | But there are other ways in which even the most defenceless animals can improve their chances of survival . |
| 14 | Shocked cries were choked off as his fellow villagers followed him into oblivion , softly caressed by the spreading gossamer folds of vapour which billowed ever more thickly through streets in which even the babies ' cries faded into silence . |
| 15 | Today , the response based on total ignorance is still alive and well in circumstances in which even the limited attention given to gender discrimination in schools far exceeds its identification as an issue in the provision of educational opportunities for adult women . |
| 16 | It is a controversy in which even the authorities on individual countries disagree . |
| 17 | Niki loses six seconds to the sort of ill manners to which even the greatest drivers are subject . |
| 18 | This tendency to treat the local population as an adjunct to the scenery is a problem to which even the rural aficionados among the newcomers can fall prey and by which they can unwittingly cause offence . |
| 19 | For , while editorial priorities and earth-shrinking technologies can and do work against the interests of the war 's officialdom , the degree to which even the less servile sections of the media provide a platform for coherent dissenting views is incredibly limited . |
| 20 | At meetings of the European Parliament 's Human Rights Committee ( at which even the French Communists stayed silent ) , Newens compared Ceauşescu 's plan to demolish half the villages in Romania and to relocate millions of people into standardized concrete blocks with the effects of redevelopment around Kings Cross on his own constituents . |
| 21 | If their activities are unsuccessful , only another professional can say whether this was due to incompetence or to the inevitable workings of nature or society by which even the most competent practitioner would have been stymied . |