Example sentences of "even [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many very poor countries , and even some that have suffered famines in the 1980s , like Ethiopia , have actually turned over land to cash crops for export . |
| 2 | The variety of colours and textures of paper available is astonishing , and there are even some that look like lace . |
| 3 | More subtly and widely , they can be led to waste effort in imitating traits which had a point in the situations which gave rise to them , but become empty and even harmful when transplanted . |
| 4 | No matter how helpful some of the tools presented seem to appear , they will prove useless and even harmful if taken up by those with eyes which are spiritually blind and whose hands lack spiritual strength . |
| 5 | If operating the market entails transaction costs , it is even clearer that establishing it entails implementation costs , although the difficulty of identifying and quantifying them means that estimates vary widely . |
| 6 | Guido was standing over her now in that dominating way he had , making her sit up even straighter and stretch her neck even more . |
| 7 | Thus the proportion of patients with unexplained symptoms is in fact even larger than recognised so far which indirectly supports an enteropathogenic role of HIV itself . |
| 8 | Seen close up , he was even larger than remembered . |
| 9 | Whereas fast compound curves suggest smoke , silks and delicate , tenuous traceries drawn by a breeze , slow compound curves are like the muscles of a weight lifter — powerful , even ponderous and writhing when taken to extremes . |
| 10 | Tales from Lavender Shoes ( TS405 — two cassettes ; 1 hour 50 minutes ) read by Jill Shilling is from the pen of Alison Uttley , a favourite writer for several generations of children , who enjoy her stories from the age of five or even younger and go on enjoying her for years . |
| 11 | What is even better than placing advertising is to be regarded by the local media as an expert and called upon to contribute editorial , either to the newspapers or to radio programmes . |
| 12 | It was even better than going by barge . |
| 13 | It seems a justifiable inference , too , that , even more than had been the case in 1939 , a sizeable proportion of the population would not have been saddened by Hitler 's assassination , and viewed his survival as a hindrance to the ending of the war . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that for the fathers the Devil is the Enemy , and on the whole most of them stress this even more than did St Paul himself . |
| 15 | But what thrilled Mrs Simmons even more than winning with these photographs was the fact that , in an after-dinner speech , top European photographer Hans Schenkel highly praised another of her works . |
| 16 | Even those that survive are given a severe check and often produce poor growth . |
| 17 | Each of the hunt masters had signed their portion of the map , and each hunt had sent a brush — even those that had broken up no fox while she was in their country . |
| 18 | Insect damage is usually fairly evident — the physical damage can be seen , the creatures themselves can be seen , and even those that hide or run away cause tell-tale signs that can be noticed and recognized . |
| 19 | Many of the victims , of course , were badly burned after death by the fires that swept the town , but even those that died in the open showed severe burns on their bodies , even though in many cases their clothes were not even singed . |
| 20 | Even those that tend not to do very well attract some kind of an advance . |
| 21 | Even those that succeeded in coming alive were populated in their early days mostly by foreigners , that is , by non-Cornishmen , or they too would have failed . |
| 22 | Even those that live in Cripo Rison find little to commend the place . |
| 23 | yeah people have seen them at the discos and , will do , and er even , even those that gives patterns or designs people are buying , have in the house now instead of watching television , sit and watch the pattern on the wall er , but erm |
| 24 | I think I think this war in particular is an example of how complex situations are and it 's an opportunity in a way for us to show to our children that there are different views involved here and different positions will be reflected , perhaps , amongst the children and the community in which they live , that we do n't all in this country hold perhaps the same view , and even those that have one particular stance have very mixed feelings about it . |
| 25 | Thus , by the end of the decade , the number of institutions in the public sector concerned with teacher training was substantially reduced , at least fourteen colleges had closed altogether , over sixty had merged with polytechnics and other further education institutions , a few had joined universities , and even those that remained ‘ free-standing ’ , that is untouched by institutional reorganization , found themselves offering a diversified range of courses including teacher training , thereby fundamentally altering their academic role . |
| 26 | Some species of these single-celled creatures even select and collect tiny grains of sand which , rather than being used in the ‘ parent 's ’ outer shell are collected together internally and passed on to the ‘ offspring ’ when the single-celled organism divides . |
| 27 | The bad driver goes even faster but shows no acceleration sense and skids repeatedly . |
| 28 | Adele saw Isabel 's pale face turn even whiter and broke off , patting her hand consolingly . |
| 29 | ‘ I think that was the worst moment of my life , even worse than realising that poor Héloise had gone after you — and how near the edge she really was . ’ |
| 30 | Even worse than Trespassing on the Railway Line . |