Example sentences of "even for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In New York , gifts of pictures by artists to critics may follow a favourable review , though a critic is likely to refuse payment , even for a catalogue introduction , from a dealer . |
| 2 | If you lose consciousness , even for a second , then you have suffered brain damage and must withdraw from further competition . |
| 3 | Van der post reminded Charles that to slow down , even for a while , would be to give the terrorists what they had wanted . |
| 4 | It had not stopped , even for a second , over the two days . |
| 5 | Firstly , it is perhaps surprising that the procedure is very difficult to do by hand , even for a small number of objects , and is quite impossible for a large number . |
| 6 | The corollary of this is that if you absolutely love certain items like cake or chips , do not ban them from your life for ever , not even for a week . |
| 7 | Besides , Florence was dull in the winter , even for a Florentine . |
| 8 | Also , as with most undiscovered places , it wo n't put too big a hole in your pocket even for a fortnight . |
| 9 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 10 | The devastation in the city 's Lake Zone , about 400 kilometres from the epicentre , was surprising even for a quake of 8.1 magnitude . |
| 11 | Studs Lonigan dropped through the floor into a bottomless pit , never to re-emerge , even for a moment 's campus debate ; the United Artists film that was supposed to become the moving blueprint of life for the new decade of Sixties youth caused but a ripple in the thoughts of these sensitive young souls and vanished without trace . |
| 12 | Although , according to conditioned attention theory , exposure to a stimulus will inevitably lead eventually to a decline in its power to evoke an attentional response , this decline can be postponed ( even for a time reversed ) if the target stimulus ( S1 ) is followed by some other ( S2 ) during initial exposure . |
| 13 | It might be okay for Nutty and even for a weed like Hoomey with his crass infatuation for the hulking ex-chaser , but for a cool customer like himself it was out of character . |
| 14 | A procedure which keeps alive a warning ( even for a major breach of discipline ) for more than two or three years is almost always unjust . |
| 15 | ‘ To alter that system , even for a Cup final , would be folly , and for that reason we think there is no place like home and Highbury for keeping the minds and bodies of our players in perfect tune . ’ |
| 16 | When we see sin unmasked now and again , and reigning even for a minutes unrestrained , we get a faint idea of its extreme hatefulness and loathsomeness . |
| 17 | Even for a matter of life and death |
| 18 | When handpumps break down , they can stand idle for want of maintenance , not for a week or two , or even for a few days , but for the lifetime of all the villagers . |
| 19 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 20 | So the crucial argument does not concern the fluoride level in a community water supply per se , but rather whether fluoridation increases the risk that certain people develop , even for a short time , levels of fluoride in the blood that can damage human cells and systems . |
| 21 | Most chess players would have thought this was inadequate to play Master-level chess even for a machine with superior positional understanding . |
| 22 | The LDP fear that an attempt to phase out whaling , even for a theoretically temporary period of a moratorium , would lose them the support of the fishing communities . |
| 23 | This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement . |
| 24 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 25 | This attempt to call their parents back could last for hours , days , even for a week or more . |
| 26 | Never let your child alone in a car — even for a short time . |
| 27 | Suddenly the idea of tearing herself away from Jack 's warm , firm body , even for a minute , seemed heartbreaking . |
| 28 | Many of the debts sued for , all undefended , had been outstanding for three , four , five and six years , or even for a longer period . |
| 29 | By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world … . |
| 30 | He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity . |