Example sentences of "but even [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even that had not been discussed in detail at home . |
| 2 | Mungo crouched and ran his hands through the grass wondering about the bird 's skull , but even that had been removed . |
| 3 | But the gloom did n't lift , so she tried to make a triumph of running away , but even that had lost its glory . |
| 4 | Only the graffiti was of the present , but even that had its roots in ancient hatreds . |
| 5 | He had mixed laudanum with his wine , but even that had not helped . |
| 6 | But even that failed to disturb Ferguson 's philosophy . |
| 7 | Behind the old lady in the hall stood the little brass dinner gong , but even that looked much smaller than in memory . |
| 8 | In the 1950s and 1960s presidents were accorded , in American terms , great leeway in foreign policy , but even that came nowhere near the extraordinary freedom to manoeuvre enjoyed by British prime ministers in such matters . |
| 9 | Here are but three mistakes of your career , you would of at least think entering the world would be safe enough , but even that has its dangers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But even that proved to be hard . |
| 12 | But even if treating our awareness of our own mental states as topic-neutral plausibly explains why we are not aware of our brains as such when we are aware of our mental states , it does not explain why knowing fully about the brain does not include knowledge of the nature of experience . |
| 13 | The difference of £2,547 is a fixed cost , but even if spread over 500 hours per year amounts to more than £5 per operating hour . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But even when moving to cities like Bristol , people still need specialist advice on preferable location — there is the still sought-after north side , in the country yet near the M4/5 junction and the M32 into the centre , with Bristol Parkway railway station accessible . |
| 16 | But even when killed by colour-blind predators the moths are not victims of any capricious cosmic indeterminacy ; for each of their deaths is a causally determined event . |
| 17 | Such places still exist but even when tackling them years ago it required a full team of professionals to make any worthwhile impression on the rabbits within . |