Example sentences of "[vb pp] even to " in BNC.

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1 Some families choose particular village locations because multiple-car ownership eases their problems of accessibility ; others make the choice or are constrained to a particular area for economic reasons even though the ownership of just one car may cause difficulties for some members of the family ; yet other households may be constrained even to particular houses in particular locations .
2 With the old keys Charley had penetrated even to her bedroom .
3 Yet Eliot seems to have been attracted even to the most unlikely sources , including even Conan Doyle 's ‘ The Musgrave Ritual ’ .
4 It is a reasonable assumption that improvements can be made even to the best of schools .
5 There were even Jacobite ballads , some of them performed by itinerant singers ; in this way , the Jacobite message could be transmitted even to those who could not read .
6 Her voice sounded dark and dangerously excited even to her own ears .
7 This was a passage of history hardly known even to the ablest scholars or the twelfth-century Renaissance , and very imperfectly known to those of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries who self-consciously implanted the democratic institutions of republican Rome and ancient Athens in their own Florence .
8 So it must have seemed even to them .
9 The power invested in Spenser 's literary representations helped establish patterns which became culturally entrenched even to the point of resisting changing historical categories .
10 That such traditions continued in the early 17th century not only in Italy but also in France should hardly surprise us , but the possibility that they might have persisted even to the end of the century and beyond may seem sufficiently improbable not to merit further investigation .
11 Using everyday objects , basic scientific principles can be explained even to the very young .
12 These written forms must , in any case , be taught even to those children whose native dialect is Standard English , since spoken and written Standard English differ considerably in some respects .
13 It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there .
14 This feeling of being addressed in a special , understanding way does not happen with the best children 's theatre , and greater credit could be given even to a young audience , with less recourse to pantomime-like delineation of character .
15 ‘ I am honoured even to be thought Inspector Rose 's Watson , ’ he said .
16 Why do you think that the stories have continued even to this day about the supposed link between the tax case and the gift of funds to build the National Gallery ?
17 What seems to have fascinated Picasso about Cézanne 's figure studies and portraits , besides his obvious interest in their structural formal properties , is the complete disregard of details , which is at times extended even to a disregard of the individual features of the face .
18 It is easy to see how such behaviour could originate out of necessity ( if B is bilingual , but A monolingual in L ) and be extended even to cases where both speakers are bilingual , out of a need to show solidarity or to conform to norms of politeness within the community .
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