Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure the system would have been implemented in the quarry , and they would 've suffered even worse than us . |
| 2 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 3 | I could have heard even though closed doors — I stopped my ears . |
| 4 | I might have provoked even worse charges . |
| 5 | ‘ Jodami will have developed even more in another year and though it 's a difficult thing to do , it 's certainly possible , ’ he said . |
| 6 | By then , tens of thousands more workers will have got the Sack and Sterling will have plunged even lower in value . |
| 7 | Since 1986 the proportion will have fallen even further , as some Conservative local authorities have sold their old people 's homes to either private operators or housing associations . |
| 8 | The sentiment indicator would have fallen even further in December , the survey showed , had it not been for the glimmer of recovery in Britain . |
| 9 | The story of the Borders is largely one of cattle-rustling on a scale which would have amazed even the American Wild West , of internecine feuds as violent as those of Sicily , and of cliques of racketeers who brought into the language the term ‘ blackmail ’ , meaning ‘ black meal ’ or ‘ black rent ’ — in other words , protection money . |
| 10 | Such downgraded land will still have to be pumped and embanked , since it will have dropped even further below sea-level , a situation worsened both by the fact that , due to the tilt of the land , eastern England is steadily falling in relation to the level of the North Sea , and by a possible rise in sea-level due to the greenhouse effect . |
| 11 | Nixon 's ambitions were to crash on the rock of Watergate , but even without that disaster it is most unlikely that he would have come even close to fulfilling his mandate , In that , he would not , by any means , have been alone . |
| 12 | Furthermore , it must be recognized that Duck was psychologically fragile and might have collapsed even in ideal circumstances . |
| 13 | If a much more severe monetary policy had been followed there is every reason to believe that while price rises would have been curtailed , unemployment would have risen even more sharply , thus confirming Keynesian analysis of a lack of aggregate demand rather than the monetarist concept of a natural rate of unemployment . |
| 14 | The set culminates in an outrageously zany harmonisation of the famous ‘ O du lieber Augustin ’ , whose adventurousness may well have made even a composer like Prokofiev blanch . |
| 15 | by next Christmas we will have made even more changes to the house , so we 'll probably adapt the decorations to suit |
| 16 | On pricing , the conclusions which could be generally agreed were so flabby and meaningless that they might have made even the most brazen practitioner of newspeak blush . |
| 17 | The response from the latter group of managers to the business plan would no doubt have made even more compelling reading . |
| 18 | A touch more organization might have made even more of this rich material . |
| 19 | The hope was realized — but in a style that must have exceeded even Chapman 's wildest dreams . |
| 20 | Waugh might have agreed even with the complaint about surface faults , which he was shortly to concede in a new preface and expunge by revision . |
| 21 | ‘ The patients may have died even if they had been admitted . ’ |
| 22 | If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan , perhaps he would have cried even more loudly . |
| 23 | In my father 's day they would not have dared even to think like that ! |
| 24 | As an outside observer I was startled by the response — a roar that would have drowned even the Parkhead faithful saluting their team captain clutching the Scottish Cup . |
| 25 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |
| 26 | Again , non-sufferers would have anticipated even greater restrictions resulting from incontinence . |
| 27 | For a chap who was reckoned a bit of a bumbler by his friends and a bit of a bruiser by his country 's neighbours , West Germany 's chancellor may have surprised even himself this week . |
| 28 | Of course one effect of the making of these revelations would have been to put D's record ( if he had one ) in issue as well , so that the jury would have had even more to think about to assist them in the weighing of the evidence in this case or ( depending on how you look at it ) to distract them from it . |
| 29 | Bearing in mind the difficulty that you may have had even in locating a book on the shelves in your room , imagine what a formidable task it is to arrange hundreds of thousands of books in a college library in such a way that each reader can quickly find a particular book or publication on a particular topic . |
| 30 | Had that policy prevailed , I doubt whether we would have had even the INF treaty . |