Example sentences of "[to-vb] even a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 2 | This error is common enough in the literature , but it is disturbing here to find even a hint of support for such thinking . |
| 3 | In contrast , it took me months and umpteen phone calls to obtain even a brochure from a well-known American vintage manufacturer . |
| 4 | I could lean forward till my head was between my metatarsals and they 'd still need a zoom lens to catch even a hint of Page 3 . |
| 5 | A minimum of three VAN stations are required to fix the location by triangulation , but the modest range of the technique means that a network of many stations would be needed to cover even a country the size of Greece . |
| 6 | When he approached a group of well-known writers , they refused to buy even a drawing . |
| 7 | Unable at first to afford even a bed , she slept behind the shop on a sack filled with paper straw from the empty sweet boxes . |
| 8 | ‘ — but if Ross had n't twisted Owen 's arm and made him take the money we would n't have been able to afford even a shoe-box . |
| 9 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 10 | In all those years , she refused to speak about it — to give even a clue . ’ |
| 11 | Only a handful of players from their original selection turned out , the management obviously having decided that they were not going to give even a hint of their championship formation . |
| 12 | One is that the then Conservative group , and I think , by reflection the current Conservative groups , since everybody sitting here was here last year , do n't know enough about budgeting to set a budget for a county council , and it also tells us that they do n't know enough about managing a county council to manage even a budget that they have set . |
| 13 | It was not that collision with anything of that kind of size was capable of damaging the field : indeed it had been established that it would require the power of several suns to put even a dent in the electric blue haze which now surrounded and protected the vessel and its contents . |
| 14 | More than half a sweaty hour touring the environs of the station , revealed there was n't space to park even a roller-skate , so I adopted a to-hell-with-it attitude and parked in a corner of the horseshoe — well out of everybody 's way . |
| 15 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 16 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 17 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 18 | Cabins are basic : one up , one down , a washbasin , but no room to swing even a kitten . |
| 19 | One of the issues that has inexplicably failed to get even a whisper of an airing in the campaign wars of words is whether a graphical interface is the preferred environment for a large proportion of desktop users . |
| 20 | We also saw several foxes ' earths but were n't lucky enough to get even a glimpse of the inhabitants . |
| 21 | Resources had to be overstretched to maintain even a foothold north of the Tay , in wild mountainous regions inhabited by ‘ half-naked savages with reddish hair and large limbs ’ , as Tacitus put it . |
| 22 | Since no outside authority — whether the employers , the journeymen or the union — ever gratified women 's skills with the respect accorded to men 's , women compositors must have found it hard if not impossible to think of themselves as skilled , or to have even a semblance of the mentality of the skilled journeyman and union member . |
| 23 | It would be smooth sailing , if one could determine the course of one 's actions only by one general principle whose application at a given moment was too obvious to need even a moment 's reflection . |
| 24 | Nothing could induce her to take even a morsel into her mouth — the imperious strength of a child 's sense of taste forbade it utterly . |
| 25 | These breasty pin-ups , these laboured mutations of suggestive posture , these roguish captions , fail to arouse even a flicker of my usual amused interest . |
| 26 | The sieving of 80 tonnes of earth failed to recover even a scrap of the missing face , which must have shattered into individual crystals . |
| 27 | How hard it was to harm even a copy of him ? ’ |
| 28 | She , 17 years his senior , was ebullient , romantic and far too impatient to spend even a minute searching for the perfect phrase when a cliché would do . |
| 29 | Service industries are now in a worse predicament than ever , because it is no longer possible to register even a business name in Britain . |
| 30 | It takes a lot of computing power to achieve even a semblance of human understanding . |