Example sentences of "[that] [adv] even [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like their peers elsewhere in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , the Communist rulers of Romania were shrewd enough to know that not even village idiots believed the official media . |
| 2 | The star goes on becoming smaller and smaller , denser and denser , until its gravitational pull has become so enormous that not even light can escape from it . |
| 3 | Anything approaching within a distance 2GM/c 2 of the centre is inevitably trapped by the intense gravitational field : space–time is so warped that not even light can escape . |
| 4 | Michell argued that not even light would be able to escape from any more compact star , and that such a star would become invisible . |
| 5 | On the contrary , all the evidence suggests that not even modernity can stifle spiritual hunger . |
| 6 | He apparently remarked in his capacity as Minister of Water Affairs that not even socialism ‘ could make water run uphill ’ during a discussion of Ceauşescu 's favourite project to complete the long-abandoned canal linking Bucharest to the Black Sea . |
| 7 | The web of confusion that has surrounded the whole Nimslo venture is now so tangled that not even Nimslo can say exactly how much investment the company has attracted . |
| 8 | In the house he now wined and dined in a style that not even Grandfather Funnell had ever done , but all paid for by Grandfather Funnell 's wife , who seemed to have become rejuvenated by the smart , young , fast-talking Mr Jones . |