Example sentences of "not even [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is compounded when it ‘ not only exists for private consumption , but is publicly displayed … [ or ] forced on the attentions of those who have not even volunteered to be voyeurs ’ ( para 7.7 ) . |
| 2 | At first glimpse it may not even appear to be armoured , but if the animal is taken into a predator 's mouth its fur is sufficiently spiky to cause acute discomfort and it is quickly dropped . |
| 3 | I was not even wanting to be alone . |
| 4 | But Wycliffe 's interest was far from scientific ; he reached no profound sociological conclusions ; he did not even attempt to be objective . |
| 5 | He did not even wait to be told the subject of the phone call . |
| 6 | A day of celebration and a day of tragedy , one superimposed upon the other , so that Amabel , who did not even wish to be rational , found it easy to believe that Ben Braithwaite had broken not only Linnet 's heart , but Gemma 's . |
| 7 | Now he is in a world where it 's nothing to fly to the Bahamas for a conference — and for a conference that 's probably not even going to be in the Bahamas ; a world where very high-class girls ring up uninvited and try to make you feel at home . |
| 8 | And as scores of saffron-clad fans in the 6,000-strong crowd wended their way towards the exits , it seemed as if there was not even going to be a respectable attendance at the funeral ! |
| 9 | It 's not even going to be worth half of that , or a third of that let's say . |
| 10 | It may not even prove to be possible unless the criteria are very broad , and therefore ambiguous , because of the problems of recording mastery of a long list of criteria . |
| 11 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 12 | She looked with horror at the fingers which had cruelly raked Bill Yardley 's face , and heard her own voice uttering words not even fit to be heard in the alleys . |
| 13 | I thought how the baby would look if it were born now , just a red dead morsel to be wrapped up quickly and thrown away , something disgusting and of no significance , not even fit to be buried as a human being . |
| 14 | They do not even have to be rocks deposited under fresh water conditions , because wood and seeds are perfectly capable of drifting long distances before becoming waterlogged enough to sink to the bottom of the sea . |
| 15 | The overriding criterion — that the service of a summons is impracticable or inappropriate — does not even have to be based on objective grounds ; it is enough that it should appear to be so to the constable making the arrest . |
| 16 | But properties do not even have to be habitable to qualify . |
| 17 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 18 | The conduct does not even have to be illegal . |
| 19 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 20 | Herod , who reigned over Palestine at the time , could not even claim to be a Jew by birth . |
| 21 | Matthews feels that X-rays could do the job more cheaply and safely — the shells would not even need to be opened up . |
| 22 | Haulage contracts do not even need to be in writing . |
| 23 | An object-oriented parallel operating system that is completely portable between all widely used processors , so much so that applications do not even need to be recompiled is the creation of a British company — Tao Systems Ltd of Belsize Park , London NW — which has substantial financial backing from Japan . |
| 24 | An object-oriented parallel operating system that is completely portable between all widely used processors , so much so that applications do not even need to be recompiled is the creation of a British company — Tao Systems Ltd of Belsize Park , London NW — which has substantial financial backing from Japan . |
| 25 | We do not even need to be able to measure the somewhat esoteric concept of surplus , since it is always a one-way reduction . |
| 26 | But we must accept that these occasional audible signals were not even meant to be heard by all the chorus singers : they were to be heard by the sub-conductor(s) , who would then relay the beat visually . |
| 27 | But she loved him , and that made it a bargain — and he did n't even deserve to be loved . |
| 28 | ‘ I hear things are so bad between the prince and princess , they ca n't even bear to be in the same room as one another , ’ said an estate worker . |
| 29 | So now he could n't even bear to be with her . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't even want to be at the presentation . |