Example sentences of "[adv] even [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wages for unskilled labour were the lowest , being significantly below even shop workers who are generally recognised to be among the most intensely exploited ( except that their hours were much longer ) . |
| 2 | They are not imposed from above nor was the consent of the top floor or the company 's famed Executive Committee apparently even sought . |
| 3 | He would n't have been able to see well enough even to lock for them . |
| 4 | And that 's true , but it 's often forgotten that some of us on this side of the fence also play professionally — they say teachers are failed musicians and I suppose many people see music journalists as those not good enough even to teach ! |
| 5 | By choosing varieties which are grafted on dwarfing rootstocks where these are available ( cherries , apricots , plums , peaches , pears , apples ) , together with less vigorous varieties of others , trees can be kept to a more manageable size , some small enough even to grow in large pots or in a greenhouse . |
| 6 | It 's dark enough onstage to hide myriad gloomy sins ; dark enough even to hide the receding hairlines and sweaty T-shirts of ageing college boy rock . |
| 7 | ‘ Osman personally does n't have money enough even to pay the interest , ’ said Nikos . |
| 8 | John Mortimer ( Mail on Sunday ) certainly took his time getting to the book , and when he got there he was cliché-ridden enough and bland enough even to stand out from that bland and cliché-ridden paper : ‘ This is an important book which makes us face the fact that genius does n't go with happiness , or blandly acceptable opinions . |
| 9 | Yes er , the F the F T er , did improve er , Les Echo improved , Recolleters improved , the Economist was slightly down on last year , but remember , the Economist were at record profits last year and erm , so even maintaining their , their profits or just dropping is a good performance . |
| 10 | Its over 2 legs so even allowing for a ‘ lukic ’ of a game , we should get thru , and maybe if the season has nt got going by then it will give us the start . |
| 11 | As countries become more prosperous , they will want to improve their infrastructure , but the aid and trade provision is exhausted because not enough money has been allocated , so even schemes that are within the rules are not approved . |
| 12 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 13 | He was in effect doing nothing … so even retaining the formation we should have had a midfielder in his postion . |
| 14 | So even playing quietly sounded plenty loud enough for me . ’ |
| 15 | so even to get them there |
| 16 | Now we 're obviously even split two in each three so aggressive group So remember want it to work in a group that a normal style so volunteers for groups ? |
| 17 | They are refusing adamantly even to investigate thin slab technology . |
| 18 | Being together even wrought a curious change in their characters ; Oldfield noticed that something of his diffidence seemed to have rubbed off on Branson . |
| 19 | In that final settlement he can be influenced by , without necessarily even remembering , every relevant experience throughout the whole of his life . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's cheap , good fun , very competitive and you do n't necessarily even need leathers . |
| 21 | Furthermore even exchange resulting from economic specialization does not , in itself , seem to be necessarily correlated with inequalities , as Marx and Engels believed . |
| 22 | Because she knew that now they would never escape and might not for long even survive ? |
| 23 | Month followed month without news — we clung to every shred of hope — was he a prisoner , or perhaps even hidden by the French Resistance ? |
| 24 | He notes that chorus singers were required to act ; far from the orchestra , perhaps even hidden , they were distracted by ‘ sounds within' So it was indispensable to have a conducteur to communicate ‘ by emphatic gestures and sometimes by the sound of the baton ’ However , |
| 25 | A fair employer will already have given thought to the alternatives to redundancy , perhaps even contacting other companies within the same group to see whether vacancies exist elsewhere . |
| 26 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 27 | The improvement will immediately show up in the viewfinder as the detail in the foreground lightens and becomes visible again ; however , the sky in the background will also lighten , and perhaps even become overexposed if there are some particularly bright clouds in the shot . |
| 28 | This could be very beautiful and perhaps even destined for your local church . |
| 29 | She felt her own breathing slow down to accord with Marcus 's respiration , and she could feel , perhaps even hear , the others also breathing in unison . |
| 30 | If , on the other hand , you ignore her persistently , then this behaviour is likely to diminish and perhaps even disappear ; she will be discouraged . |