Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] even [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , skin care assumes considerable importance in the woman 's mind , so that even a secondary association can be a significant one . |
| 2 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |
| 3 | To this general appreciation of functional variety in language , the pluralist adds the idea that language is intrinsically multifunctional , so that even the simplest utterance conveys more than one kind of meaning . |
| 4 | Er yes I , I er I think I , I could n't really speak definitely on this but er you I have said that we , you know that this secretary encouraged them because you know , to keep it in and even the one woman said this was how she got a deposit for her house and through , as I say , you 'd got a Co-op building society as well . |
| 5 | Long after even the latest apple tree has finally broken into leaf , the mulberry 's branches remain stubbornly bare . |
| 6 | Dennis was thrashing about so vigorously that even a trained lifeguard would have had difficulty in retrieving him . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) When the clothing lasts far longer than even the best quality jeans , and costs no more , how will the agents maintain a business based on clothes bought near enough once in a lifetime ? ( 3 ) Is anyone stupid enough to want to wear heavy-duty , fur-lined , withstands-bloody-cold-arctic-conditions clothing in the summer ? |
| 8 | However , Kent County Council pointed out that even the higher figure was only just over 1% of daily lorry movements in the county . |
| 9 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 10 | She had let the fire go out since even the soft fall of ash , the spit of a sudden irritable flame , the shifting of branches in the course of their own attrition filled her ears with restless noise and muffled what might be sounding outside : the soft tread of something moving closer , the susurration of something being unsheathed , the breath of someone hissing through his teeth . |