Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [conj] even a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've had a lot of positive feedback from the people of the Borough and even a letter of thanks — something which is almost unheard of in our business ! ’ |
| 2 | Do not underestimate the effect that even a small operation has on your body and your nervous system . |
| 3 | There are more formal lectures by the invited keynote speakers , but also summaries of the workshops and buzz groups held , reports on individual research undertaken , snapshot views of the conference and even a flavour of some of the social functions in more jovial mood . |
| 4 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 5 | There is plenty of evidence for the planting of new vineyards in the Bordelais and even a Poitevin was prepared to admit that Bordeaux wine was of superb quality , but at this date by far the most important wine-exporting region was further north , in Aunis and Saintonge . |
| 6 | He needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he 'd collected on his travelsand decided to build a gothic tower complete with mullioned arched and trefoil windows … crenellated battlements at the top and even a gargoyle to complete the effect . |
| 7 | In the study of football fans we have access to the manifestations of action on and around the ground and even a permanent record of some of this action in the form of video and audio recordings . |
| 8 | Why do the Government reject the argument that even a Home Office Bill is capable of improvement ? |
| 9 | Severe criticism of these ideas did little to detract from the belief that even a sickly press was preferable to the Soviet and authoritarian theories outlined by Siebert et al . |
| 10 | A place familiar from many enjoyable holidays spent there may be the choice or even a move abroad . |
| 11 | No wonder women are treated so badly in the world when even an organisation such as Amnesty judges them in terms of their lives only meaning something if they can ‘ belong ’ to a man . |
| 12 | To this gloss on the idea that even a thief should have to screw his courage to the sticking-place , Johnson adds the argument that if all else he had written were lost , Shakespeare should have become immortal for the way in which he shows Macbeth ‘ distinguishing true from false fortitude in a line and a half ’ : In Johnson 's footsteps , these roads across Scotland 's shoulder become Shakespeare country . |
| 13 | Halpern ( 1986 ) derides their apparent conviction that ‘ it is frightening and perhaps even unAmerican to consider the possibility that even a small part of the sex differences in spatial abilities ( or any cognitive ability ) , may be attributed to biological factors ’ ( 1986 : 1014 ) . |
| 14 | There is also the problem that even a ‘ harmless ’ drug can be misused in a harmful way . |
| 15 | You might expect to find a house like this in some refined seaside resort such as Budleigh Salterton or Sidmouth , where , owing to the wars and consequent lack of foreign travel , the nobility and even a Royal or two were building elaborate holiday houses . |