Example sentences of "even [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More bad luck years even than breaking a mirror . |
| 2 | The only sound in the night was the soft rustling of the trees in the night wind , but to their nervously attuned hearing even that carried a note of underlying menace , especially with the thought of the prowling killer pack uppermost in their minds . |
| 3 | She heard the noise of the start but not even that had the power to disturb her thoughts , which were totally turned inwards on to herself . |
| 4 | And even that seemed a but thinking of the old tramp and he was in a a sort of all belaggered looking way . |
| 5 | I did show in the Serpentine Gallery in 1975 but even that presented a problem of prudery which I did n't experience on the continent . |
| 6 | It will be a choice of ends , for example , even if forgotten a moment later , when he chokes back an erupting laugh at a slip by an important man , the choice being between a momentary and a long-term goal , the latter of which the other man could jeopardize . |
| 7 | As we have seen , the establishment of a habit can create a situation where a horse refuses to think — irrespective of how intelligent a horse may be , and even if solving the problem is in the horse 's own interests . |
| 8 | She had assumed all along that the only reason her father could possibly have for even considering selling the club was concern that she , Rory , could n't cope with running it , that it would prove too much of a burden for her — that it would hold her back from her own career . |
| 9 | Even while discussing the sale of the cumbersome paper system outside the CAB the issue has always been disputed . |
| 10 | The demands of party competition mean that alternative political leaderships will sustain the popular belief that full leadership control is feasible , even while impugning the current incumbents ' realization of this potential . |
| 11 | Even while taking a catnap the animal 's ears are in operation . |
| 12 | Suzanne Moore rightly condemns Judge Rant 's reference to ‘ brute homosexual activity ’ , but she still reserves the right to consider other people 's consensual sexual choices distasteful and disgusting , even while rejecting the idea of criminalising them . |
| 13 | Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury . |
| 14 | It was beginning to seem as if neither of them was ever to achieve their heart 's desires , even while making a success of other aspects of their lives . |
| 15 | Even whilst developing the modern immaterialist notion of consciousness , the eighteenth-century empiricists and others were attacking the dignity of intellect and assimilating it to sensory activity by treating thoughts as mere images . |
| 16 | Even as distinguished a scholar as Karl Rahner loyally attempted to fall in line with papal doctrine , but only at considerable cost to his credibility . |
| 17 | In these recent studies the idea of a unilinear development of society has been largely abandoned , even as representing the view of Marx himself , and it is argued instead that there are alternative form of society which have succeeded the primitive communal system . |
| 18 | The number of days of practice needed before the patient has the courage to try and translate the visualization into action varies considerably , not only from one individual to another but even as regards the different stages of a person 's treatment . |
| 19 | Of the stallions : one who spent the day out in a paddock , stuffed the bucket aside with his nose in the second fastest time ; but the remaining two stallions , who lived in yards , completely failed the test — even when tested a second time . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is so much within Karajan 's music-making faculty that he would breathe with the music even when watching a TV monitor in a video editing session . |
| 21 | Even when considering the middle and working classes , though , we must not forget that mobility levels are still low enough to sustain different class cultures , especially at the extreme ‘ ends ’ of these classes in the upper middle class and the unskilled working class . |
| 22 | This turntable spins smoothly , even when holding a large cake . |
| 23 | His folksy speeches still beguile the faithful ; he can grow eloquent on anything , even when comparing the dynamo-operated lamps of Russian bicycles to the simple purity of the unlighted Chinese alternative . |
| 24 | The boots were very comfortable from new even when wearing a single pair of walking socks . |
| 25 | Previous nudes , even when taking the form of courtisanes , never allowed the odour of money to tarnish their classical form ; in Olympia , money is clearly at issue , sex becomes a commodity . |
| 26 | Such variations may be irrelevant to the programmer , even when writing a program in a low-level language , since the assembler deals with the detailed representation in the computer store of the sequence of instruction fields specified by the programmer . |
| 27 | On the other hand , species like long-eared owls have different prey size spectra even when occupying the same geographical regions as barn owls or tawny owls . |
| 28 | In any case , the analyst can change his model at a later stage , even when mapping the model onto a database . |
| 29 | Even when avoiding the overlap of these two considerations , there is , clearly , a very large number of possible permutations . |
| 30 | However , there is also in English a more substantial effect on linguistic form for all the separatives ; they are ungrammatical in predicative position , even when qualifying the same nouns that they can accompany fully acceptably in attributive position : ( 47 ) the king is/will be future fortunately , Dostoievsky 's execution was mock Likewise , in the attributive phrases in ( 48 ) , possible and occasional are separative , qualifying the relationship between the entity of the noun phrase and the descriptions RIVAL and SAILORS respectively , rather than directly qualifying the entity itself : ( 48 ) a possible rival now came on the scene Wilkes and Andersen are occasional sailors ( the last pair of words has much the same meaning as the phrase week-end sailors ) . |