Example sentences of "even [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those extra shillings , or even pennies , were often sorely needed , But what was a reasonable age for a boy or girl to commence a life of labour at a copper mine ? |
| 2 | He further remarks how , even in cultures which do not regard sexual relations between men as unnatural or sinful , male sexual ‘ passivity ’ may be associated with inferiority , inadequacy , and even pathology . |
| 3 | Even Ezra 's and Nehemiah 's autobiographies were new in Judaea , as Ion of Chios ' memoirs were new in Greece — practically at the same time . |
| 4 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 5 | Even Sarah 's money had gone . |
| 6 | Even Sarah was smiling . |
| 7 | However , one can see that the relative emphasis on these four factors may vary ( and sometimes conflict ) not only from job to job ( in some cases expertise is of the essence , in others the degree content is virtually irrelevant , and ability and ‘ personality ’ are the key things ) but from one employer and even personnel manager to another . |
| 8 | Even personnel associated with stars will be wise to think ahead to the need for renewal . |
| 9 | In this context , it makes no sense to speak of an ‘ industry ’ like steel or automobiles or televisions or even banking . |
| 10 | Even Cezanne 's rare prints are starting to look a bit undervalued , in terms of the way in which the market as a whole is performing . |
| 11 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 12 | She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent . |
| 13 | Experience has shown that this can lead to rivalry or even friction between the two . |
| 14 | More versatile hunters such as the Kestrel will take any small mammals , birds , reptiles or even beetles as they are available . |
| 15 | We are used to the idea of exercises for our muscular body and even breathing exercises but the following are for our major internal organs . |
| 16 | But in spite of the immense authority which he now possessed , his poetry had ceased to be fashionable or " chic " in the way that The Waste Land or even Ash-Wednesday had originally been : the new , or at least young , poets were no longer particularly interested in what he had to show them . |
| 17 | The Poles of the Congress Kingdom were not broken , for even Paskevich admitted in 1850 that the calm he had established merely reflected their " awareness of their powerlessness and their conviction of the incontestable might of your Imperial Highness " . |
| 18 | Even Paskevich , in the Congress Kingdom of Poland , had to defer on occasion to the ministries of the central government . |
| 19 | Even Trepper was captured and the Rote Kapelle was wound up at the end of 1942 . |
| 20 | In moments of despair you hit hope on the head with a hammer , but she goes on breathing in dark , safe spaces , echoes and cobwebs/tatters of past desire , spent and perfect , swim through time towards you , reminding you of what was but is no more/splinters in the flesh/tiny mouths open and close and never get fed — not even scraps — nothing at all . |
| 21 | With the manure provided by so many beasts , there was some hope of success in making productive the marginal soils of the Weald , particularly where natural fertiliser was augmented by a wide variety of other fertilisers , lime , meat and even scraps from the villages . |
| 22 | In the immediate aftermath of the rioting the vignerons tried to excuse their actions by claiming that only houses which practised the blending of wines from the Midi had been molested , but there was no evidence to bear this out and even houses which had kept strictly to the noble blends had been attacked . |
| 23 | Finally I saw shapes of valleys , hills , crags , the white flash of waterfalls and then after Bill Robins lent me his binoculars , even houses , mostly thatched with palms or with roofs of red corrugated iron , the trademark of Polynesia , with the occasional roof of startling white . |
| 24 | He and fellow Catholic lords began to murmur of an uprising against Elizabeth ; and there were even plans for Mary to marry the Duke of Norfolk , in the hope of producing an acceptable successor to the throne of England . |
| 25 | It ca n't be knocked down because of a protection order — and there are even plans to establish a museum of psychiatry on the site . |
| 26 | You do not look at motivations , feelings or even attitudes . |
| 27 | God 's truth is meant to have a powerful effect in changing even the most deep seated of our attitudes , even attitudes like those of the early Jewish Christians towards the Gentiles which had centuries of cultural back-up to support them . |
| 28 | Ideology in this context may be defined as ‘ a set of closely related beliefs or ideas , or even attitudes characteristic of a group or community ’ . |
| 29 | The system is by no means an infallible guide to people 's spending habits or even attitudes , but the combined efforts of the market research world have failed , so far , to come up with anything better . |
| 30 | Rampaging children and large pets ( even Oscars ) can have more obvious effects . |