Example sentences of "even [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was on record as saying that he regarded the agonizing over Equal Opportunities on a paper which did not even exist as — at best — a red herring . |
| 2 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 3 | Lastly , the United Nations Convention of 1986 on Conditions for the Registration of Ships , which no member state has yet signed , even goes as far as expressly to confer on states party thereto the right to choose between the criterion of the nationality of the owner and the criterion of the nationality or place of residence of the crew ( see articles 7 , 8 and 9 , and Annex I to the Commission 's written observations in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) . |
| 4 | John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’ |
| 5 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 6 | In the centre and west , in Croatia and Slovenia , the military frontier held , but throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these areas were the victims of frequent raids by marauding bands of Turks , who even penetrated as far as Graz . |
| 7 | In the past , it often meant being ignored , even regarded as less intelligent . |
| 8 | SOME of us struggle even to jump as high as 3 ft 6 inches . |
| 9 | How much truth there was in all these myths you now know as well as I. Certainly the Witnesses hit early on the fact that , rippling in and out of hyperspace , even ships as basic as the Bergen Kobold change slightly every time . |
| 10 | The Film Noir book is equally encyclopaedic as a reference work , and its opinions are sensitive , sensible and totally without those daft claims which even films as good as White Heat and The Woman in the Window ca n't really sustain . |
| 11 | We even sailed as far as Singapore . |
| 12 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 13 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 14 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 15 | Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head . |
| 16 | As his armies grew in number and strength Grom ventured further and further west , devastating much of Stirland , Talabecland and even going as far as Hochland in the shadow of the Middle Mountains . |
| 17 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |
| 18 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 19 | Celebrities such as Amanda De Cadenet , whose baby has graced two covers this year , even go as far as to be pictured breastfeeding . |
| 20 | Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’ |
| 21 | Garry Bushell , a tabloid journalist , even went as far as to doubt Mr McShane 's status as a ‘ serious sex symbol ’ . |
| 22 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 23 | At one point he even went as far as to tell a group of American diplomats that he expected the United States to take over the " primary role " which the British had hitherto held in the Middle East . |
| 24 | Her ladyship always took advice from art historians before she would even change as much the piping on a cushion . |
| 25 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 26 | I could n't even walk as fast as the kids , and standing for more than five minutes was impossible . |
| 27 | They did n't even get as far as the bedroom , one of the soft rugs strewn over the carpeting in her lounge serving as their bed of reunion , Maria still partly and Luke almost fully clothed as they subsided on to its subtly glowing colours . |
| 28 | We might not even get as much coverage as Sunderland if they manage to get into the play-offs ( and with the way their luck goes they 'll get a play-off place by finishing tenth ) . |
| 29 | Some swim into the Baltic , others pass through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean and may even travel as far as the Black Sea . |
| 30 | For a party with that record now to deride as unreal , and even denounce as illegitimate , opponents who are also re-examining their past suggests the presence of a certain myopia . |