Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] even [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 2 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 3 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 4 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 5 | It was not surprising that even within the upper reaches of the Party discontent began to come into the open , or at least to be expressed clearly behind closed doors at meetings of the Central Committee or Council of Ministers . |
| 6 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 7 | The GT 35s were immediately comfortable and even on the backpack , with one very long day in the heat , I suffered no blisters and little foot discomfort . |
| 8 | To the player it is all too real and even from the prime position in the middle of the fairway he can barely pick out the top of the flag amid the brightly-coloured hues of the spectators . |