Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] even the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any chance of a Government defeat when the white paper is debated in the Commons on Monday has now been averted with even the majority of hardcore rebels threatening to abstain rather than vote against the Government . |
| 2 | I was quite evidently not a person to be trusted with even the simplest task . |
| 3 | This reflects both a desire to uphold tradition and the fact that natural dyes produce a subtle beauty of tone that has never been equalled by even the finest synthetic dyes . |
| 4 | However , there are a number of risks to be considered by even the most competent pilot , and these are outside the pilot 's control once the cloud climb has been started . |
| 5 | Butler and Stokes " challenge any image of the elector as an informed spectator " , noting how " understanding of policy issues falls away very sharply indeed as we move outwards from those at the heart of political decision-making to the public at large " , and how attitudes are formed towards even the best-known policy issues to only a " limited degree " . |
| 6 | It all helped to even the odds . |
| 7 | A shamanist philosophy helped to even the odds against them , and they spread through the Aleutian Islands and along the Arctic coast of North America ( Figure 7.1 ) , forming the distinctive northern folk formerly known as Eskimo , now called Inuit in recognition of their pan-Arctic racial identity . |
| 8 | But David Evans was a fair-minded young man , and knew from his historical studies that bad luck can not be avoided by even the greatest of men . |
| 9 | AT A top price of £20-£30 — ‘ through the roof ’ says Ian Hooker , with tongue in cheek — commemorative and advertising matchbox grips still cost peanuts compared with even the cheapest London saleroom collectables . |
| 10 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 11 | Stuart Gulliver , Chief Executive of Glasgow Development Agency , which is supporting the BVP along with Scottish Enterprise , said the lack of new firms in Scotland had become critical compared to even the rest of the UK , never mind Germany or parts of California . |
| 12 | So I am pleading that the panel really take a great deal of effort in this leaflet so that it is going to be easily understood by even the people who are less well educated than some of us . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , this is not to be , since it transpires that the gentleman from British Rail was nothing short of a duplicitous cad ; there are no small compartments , just open-plan carriages too large to be defended by even the most outrageous behaviour , so I slump sullenly into a corner , wallowing in layers of dust and grime that would easily qualify for a Quentin Crisp kitemark , waiting for the guard to switch on the heat and the lights , preparatory to the departure of the Sir John . |
| 14 | This has several important consequences , the first being that the f-f bands of such species are characteristic of the element concerned , and hardly affected by even the immediate ligands . |
| 15 | He should remember that export volumes of manufactured goods grew faster than in the United States throughout the 1980s , that manufacturing grew faster than in France or Italy during the 1980s , and that Britain exports a larger proportion of its national product than Japan , a point recognised by even the Scottish National party . |
| 16 | Without technology like this , Jonathon and thousands like him would be debarred from even the simplest form of human interaction . |
| 17 | By 1985 it was recorded that the top 6 per cent of the population in income terms now received 25 per cent of national income , while for the poorest 20 per cent their share had actually fallen from even the 5.9 per cent they enjoyed in 1979 . |
| 18 | Many burgh councillors and freeholders were happy enough to see one of their numerous sons placed in even the humblest post in the excise administration . |
| 19 | For example , the type of parrot beak that cracks Brazil nuts admirably would , on Diatryma , be wildly oversized for even the most enormous nuts . |
| 20 | The surgical exposure is satisfactory and not unduly prolonged in even the largest patients and the technique does not interfere with any subsequent transplant operation . |
| 21 | Polished mahogany and blue velvet gave saloon , bedroom , bathroom and kitchen an elegance seldom found in even the most luxurious wagon lits on continental expresses . |
| 22 | Framed by the clear , blue waters of Adriatic and Ionian Seas , it forms the famed heel and spur of southern Italy — well known to even the most lazy geography pupil . |
| 23 | It is beyond chance that all of these species also happen to be animals ; plants , perhaps inhabiting the same regions as these animals , have disappeared without even the briefest of epitaphs . |
| 24 | In fact , examples of tool using can be found among even the most unpromising candidates — the invertebrates , those animals without backbones . |
| 25 | Courtney 's canoeists with ten Folbots ( see diagram p. 25 ) were the first of what became the Special Boat Section , formed after their leader had given a practical demonstration of the canoe 's military potential , a potential doubted by even the adventurous characters in Combined Operations headquarters until Courtney paddled out one summer night in 1940 to a carrier ship moored in the Clyde . |
| 26 | Some of the following problems may be encountered by even the healthiest head of hair some time during its long and variously-styled life : |
| 27 | In an urban society , which by its sheer size and evolving technology is largely insulated from even the seasonal changes of nature , the sense of social antidrama can be profound . |
| 28 | ‘ Justice is not served by even the slightest suspicion of injustice , ’ the Rt Rev Santer said yesterday . |
| 29 | For the wealthy , the Act for Burying in Woollen imposed but another expense , as £5 was but a small price to pay so as not to be buried in a material proscribed for even the lowliest rustic . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , some progress is being made in assessing the costs and benefits associated with even the most complex pollution problems , such as visibility degradation . |