Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of even the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They witness to a process of realisation of the confusion , frustration , failure and partiality at the heart of even the best of human experience , let alone the worst , which makes them essentially accessible to all ; but they also witness to an awakening understanding of the fact that these are the very means of the experience of transformation . |
| 2 | ‘ Over there is an occasional table with a vase of flowers , dried and well past their best , and down there is the piano ; and one , may I add , which would try the patience of even the totally tone-deaf . ’ |
| 3 | At the clearing stations the backlog of even the partially repaired mounted alarmingly as , with the constant demand of the Voie Sacrée supply route , all too few vehicles could be spared for use as ambulances . |
| 4 | The wasteful use of the bathrooms , for instance , can turn a summer holiday into a time of intense anxiety and the purchase of water by the lorry load may strain the budget of even the best-heeled family . |
| 5 | The purchase of water by the lorry load may strain the budget of even the best-heeled family . |
| 6 | The enthusiasm of even the most committed staff can flag when routine work and unanticipated events distract teachers from the targets and task " ( DES 1989e:15 ) . |
| 7 | Deprived nowadays of their railway and most of the buses , the village school closed and the loss of even the village postman , the villagers are determined the feast will survive . |
| 8 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 9 | The communal redistribution of land , the heavy impositions of the State , the vulnerability of even the most successful household to the vagaries of the climate — all provided major obstacles to the emergence of households sufficiently enterprising to hire labour , invest and expand . |
| 10 | Exhaustion is a permanent feature preventing the completion of even the most simple task . |
| 11 | To be described as surplus to requirements , perhaps after many years of loyal and diligent service , can cripple the self-esteem of even the most resilient person . |
| 12 | It was not the only banquet taking place in Kinsai , but it was clearly the one at which the nobility of the Khanate of even the lowest degree had thought it was incumbent upon them to be seen . |
| 13 | In seeking to develop a technique that would be compatible with the findings of modern physics , she demonstrates the relevance of even the most abstract of concepts to our understanding of ourselves and our relation to others through language . |
| 14 | The production of an item such as the Sutton Hoo helmet was undoubtedly a great achievement , but there are cases where the complexity and skill involved in the manufacture of even the humbler items is surprising . |
| 15 | Another hundred years on , the station has undergone a multimillion-pound facelift and British Rail is confident its ambitious refurbishment and future development plans will meet the approval of even the most regal travellers . |
| 16 | Expectation has been shown to influence the outcome of even the most carefully controlled double-blind trial in either a positive or a negative direction . |
| 17 | Is it seriously suggested that the entire elderly population should be regularly screened , that a clear majority should be followed up monthly for six months , and that half should be treated for life on the basis of even the most optimistic interpretation of the trial data ? |
| 18 | The collectorship , however , was not in the gift of even the most influential politician , for it was an elective office , but it was , nonetheless , intimately connected with parliamentary politics . |
| 19 | As you can see from the first diagram , the body of even the toughest fighter is covered with ‘ soft spots ’ ( or vulnerable areas ) which can easily be seen and reached . |
| 20 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 21 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |
| 22 | The 5pc cut in new sales tax wiped hundreds of pounds off the price of even the cheapest models . |
| 23 | The conduct of the War required fiscal policies sufficiently egalitarian to appease the conscience of even the most austere socialist . |
| 24 | It is a compelling night out and the stark bare set and the absence of even the sight or sound of a jailer serves to hammer home the isolation , the boredom and the feeling of helplessness . |
| 25 | The absence of even the controlled liberalization evident in other sectors of the economy appears to reflect RENFE 's strategic position . |
| 26 | The relevant economic argument that reaches the notice of even the ill-informed newspaper reader is the proposition that high taxation , or indeed any taxation at all , is undesirable because it limits the extent to which people work , produce and add to the ‘ wealth of the nation ’ . |
| 27 | As we go up the scale of complexity , many highly evolved and sophisticated molecules are involved in the constitution of even the simplest living cell . |
| 28 | For those petrified by the prospect of even the simplest programming , this basic approach is a real help . |
| 29 | The quality of even the latest software is not above reproach and much remains to be done to ensure that the computer is the servant rather than the master of its users . |
| 30 | Luckily , basic preventative measures and healthy lifestyles are within the reach of even the most impoverished Solomon Islander who , in the case of malaria , can greatly reduce chances of possible infection with a combination of fixing drainage , making or buying mosquito nets and learning more about how the disease works . |