Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] even the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention is to highlight how today we in this country may join through our offerings with those of little or no material wealth in the Third World in the urgent task of making human development possible for even the poorest . |
| 2 | More recently , the coming of photography has made it possible for even the least talented among us to produce our own pictorial records . |
| 3 | Indeed , it now became possible for even the temporary and seasonal migrations of Italian or Irish harvesters or railway builders to extend across the oceans . |
| 4 | Arrowanas are large fish , reportedly reaching lengths of up to three feet ( 90cm ) , but in captivity rarely exceeding 2′ ( 60cm ) and an eighteen inch ( 45cm ) specimen would be very respectable for even the biggest of aquariums . |
| 5 | Some rich men took utterly destitute people into their houses , where they performed menial services , and it was usual for even the moderately well-off to invite poor men and strangers off the street to eat meals at home . |
| 6 | After a few months of therapy it is usual for even the most intense form of cat phobia to disappear . |
| 7 | ( d ) The expelled partner Whilst often enough the circumstances will be sufficiently clear for even the most recalcitrant individual to accept his fate , the traumatic nature of the process is highly conducive to acrimony . |
| 8 | I was reminded of stories about some immigrant Irish who arrived in America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger , bereft of even the basic skills of domestic cookery . |
| 9 | Skulls of aliens adorned the banner-hung , tapestried walls , their eyeless sockets forever blinded to the mysteries of those who had mastered them , their hollow craniums empty of even the ghost of a twisted , unhuman thought . |
| 10 | Most modern central-heating systems work very well , especially if they are regularly serviced , but things can go wrong with even the best-maintained system . |
| 11 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 12 | The theory that success breeds success is particularly appropriate to the rise of headhunting : the early searches played a crucial part in promoting the concept of executive search as a necessary tool of modern business , acceptable in even the most conservative American Boardrooms . |
| 13 | Farmers , their pride stung , can easily become aggressively unhelpful to even the most politely worded and well-reasoned appeal to curb some of the unnecessarily destructive aspects of their farming practices . |
| 14 | Even more remarkably he holds his head high among even the finest pianists in the Second and Third Sonatas . |
| 15 | It was next to impossible for even the most reactionary supporter of the status quo to claim that Government should not even examine the pensions system . |
| 16 | As it was , it was impossible for even the most servile and well-meaning to avoid offence . |
| 17 | Enterprise democracy differs from this in that ( a ) workers can begin to fight for such an objective in the absence of a socialist government and ( b ) it is by nature impossible for even the most ‘ socialist ’ of governments to develop enterprise democracy ‘ from above ’ . |
| 18 | It sucked all warmth and courage from his body , leaving him chilled to the bone and fearful of even the smallest movement in the big house . |
| 19 | Johnny had made her forgetful of even the most important things . |
| 20 | At one extreme , some of the more staunch believers , Catholic and Protestant alike , were obsessed with religious questions to a degree which most twentieth-century observers would consider neurotic and obsessional ; in contrast , at the other end of the spectrum , there existed a minority of lay men and women who consistently ignored their legal obligation to attend regular Sunday services and remained extraordinarily ignorant of even the most basic tenets of Christianity . |
| 21 | The net result of a system which mixed young and old , debtors and criminals , men and women , first offenders and old lags indiscriminately was , inevitably , that prisoners were exploited , brutalized and deprived of even the few rights that the law allowed them . |
| 22 | flexibility of services offered by offices can be greatly enhanced by the variety of equipment now available 7. international business communication will be readily accessible to even the smallest office |
| 23 | Xorandor examines the narrative aspect of the novel by exploring the theoretical problems of story-telling from the point of view of children whose minds have been formed by their exposure to computers ; here techniques specific to narrative are shown to be central to even the most logical of sciences . |
| 24 | Therefore it is ideal for even the darkest areas in the tank . |
| 25 | South of Iceland , the Atlantic Ocean stretches out devoid of even the tiniest of islands for thousands of kilometres . |
| 26 | But it was obvious to even the meanest intelligence that surprise was the least descriptive word to be applied to her . |
| 27 | Our homes are warm and cosy on even the coldest day , and well ventilated during the summer months . |
| 28 | Yet a certain Scottish poet was not far wrong when he described finishing one of that author 's novels as being like emerging from a thin shower of dandruff , unenlivened by even the slightest flash of mediocrity . |
| 29 | In the 1980s the Iran-Iraq war demonstrated that the supply of oil to interested clients was possible in even the most threatening and unstable situations . |
| 30 | It was still taken as self-evident in even the most up-to-date fiction that being in love normally had only one outcome , marriage . |