Example sentences of "even [that] " in BNC.

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1 The market has a mechanism for ensuring even that the potential risk of damage to the environment can be costed .
2 Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular .
3 But even that had not been discussed in detail at home .
4 It was n't just that copies of knitting patterns in a popular British magazine were regarded as subersive , or even that the border guards had strict rules about the permitted length of visitors ' hair .
5 Yeo Davis 's business was concerned with representing people who did not know the ropes , or even that there were any ropes ; Hutton 's predominantly with fellow professionals in other fields who just wanted the best and swiftest way through .
6 Even that turned out to be no simple task .
7 He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects .
8 Mungo crouched and ran his hands through the grass wondering about the bird 's skull , but even that had been removed .
9 Yet he certainly taught the relativity of earthly authority , and even that by his bringing in of God 's kingdom the Mosaic law and Temple cult ceased to be final .
10 The pagan world was familiar with the widespread beliefs that sexual contact between man and woman hindered the soul 's rise to higher things , and even that one who has been favoured with the love of a god ought to forgo mortal love .
11 Some would argue even that she casts a heavy shadow over present negotiations on the political future of South Africa .
12 Or perhaps even that he and I together , in as filthy moods as we were , must n't have looked like the sort of people even a policeman should risk messing with .
13 But despite Mr Delors ' firm line on tobacco advertising , the EPC said it now believed even that blanket ban would not now be implemented .
14 His relationship with Don Roberto had been strictly business and even that had been in abeyance since Trent 's posting to Ireland .
15 First , because identification with one 's community is morally worthwhile , and acceptance of the authority of the state an appropriate way ( though not the only way ) to express it , one may jump to the conclusion that one has an obligation to accept the authority of the state , or even that it has authority independently of such acceptance .
16 She had the echo of his morning telephone call in her memory , and even that seemed faint and distant .
17 He had n't realised pregnancy was such a dislocating experience , or even that getting married itself would cause such an upheaval .
18 For instance , if father has lost his job , whispered conversations about money worries , which break off as soon as children come near , may give them the idea that a terrible disaster is about to strike , or even that they are too insignificant to be taken into their parents ' confidence .
19 Thus it is likely that no more than 1 or 2 per cent of the total budget would really be available for new projects and plans — and even that only if pupil numbers were retained and no other emergencies developed in any particular year .
20 As it turned out the final Report , published in 1889 after almost five years of investigation , did embody a number of recommendations regarding the education of deaf children in future Education Acts , thus setting out for the first time proper legislation with regard to compulsory entry , ages of admission , the length of education , the size of classes , and even that Principals/Headmasters of boarding institutions had to reside on the premises .
21 Even that seemingly most child-aware artist , Dick Bruna , says ( 1984 , p.43 ) , ‘ I 'm sure that if the books had n't been such a success , I would still be continuing in the same way .
22 He accompanied this with a rude gesture — some say it was a noise , others that he stuck out his tongue , or even that he made a sign with his forearm .
23 But the gloom did n't lift , so she tried to make a triumph of running away , but even that had lost its glory .
24 Somehow he knew that she felt in need of comfort that weekend — even that provided by the man she had most cause to hate .
25 However , Patrick Eggle assured me that this was just a spooky coincidence , and even that some players had remarked upon a tendency for the bottom string to slip off the bridge , so he was going to move it anyway .
26 Even that I believed , but the lipstick on his underpants ‘ administered by a gay dwarf in drag , brushing past me in the men 's showers ’ was a bit much .
27 Or even that he is conducting a stealthy operation to ensure the BBC 's survival that depends on elaborate deception .
28 They did n't just acknowledge gracefully that they 'd been beaten , or perhaps even that they had been wrong , and welcome their Reporter back .
29 But even that failed to disturb Ferguson 's philosophy .
30 Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's .
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