Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] even [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — surely they 'd never commit something so dangerous even to a Company Spiderline . |
| 2 | Amanda had been all enthusiastic even in the rain , saying it was spray in her face and look at the gulls , which were swooping down on the shoal of crisp packets and orange peel trailing in the wake . |
| 3 | The scale on which Pound was working was not clear even to the poet himself ; so that the eleven cantos which he originally designated as ‘ preparation of the palette ’ are now by responsible commentators considerably extended — to the extent that the first thirty cantos , which are all that the twenties knew of the poem ( A Draft of XVI Cantos ( Paris , June 1925 ) ; A Draft often Cantos 17–27 ( 100 copies , September 1928 ) ; and A Draft of XXX Cantos ( 210 copies , August 1930 ) ) , are now often regarded as laying out no the painter 's palette the hues that only in subsequent cantos would be combined to polemical and imaginative purpose . |
| 4 | The marriage of Louis-Napoleon to Eugénie de Montijo undoubtedly stoked up the fires of her discontent , but the hearth was comfortably alight even before the marriage . |
| 5 | It was held that the effect of the clause was to throw onto the employer the risk of damage caused by fire , so that the contractor was not liable even for a fire caused by the negligence of its employees ( and despite the presence of a clause under which the contractor undertook to indemnify the employer against losses in respect of damage to property caused by the negligence of the contractor 's employees , which was held to be qualified by the clause dealing with fire insurance ) . |
| 6 | ‘ … for many years after the time named in this Ramble , Great College Street — beyond the terrace of houses extending to the entrance of Messrs. Goodall 's existing premises — was totally impassable even as a footpath in the winter . |
| 7 | And at this stage , the relationship of the horseshoe crab with the trilobites becomes evident , for in these little immature creatures which have not yet developed the all-enclosing armour of the adults , the segments are clearly visible even from the top . |
| 8 | In respect of the more anglicised parts of Wales , such as the Vale of Glamorgan , this statement was probably inaccurate even at the time of writing . |
| 9 | DECIDEDLY BIZARRE even at the time , every year further away from the Red Menace makes this charred black farce seem weirder still . |
| 10 | The advantages of harmonizing law relating to international transactions would seem fairly evident even to the layman . |
| 11 | Their displacement was not however immediately perceptible even to a writer like Disraeli , who was critically interested both in the architecture and in the social function of great houses . |
| 12 | Ways of organising struggles that were appropriate to a phase of economic growth and full employment must now be reviewed and revised ; although the scope and diversity of trade union education have remained admirably broad even under the impact of the crisis , defence of past achievements must as ever be supported by an appraisal of shortcomings and deficiencies . |
| 13 | With ovens and gas burners roaring away , it was wiltingly hot even at the dining-room end of the kitchen . |
| 14 | Her walking shoes had formidable soles of thick , springy rubber composition , remarkably silent even on the staircase , and gifted with a firm grip even in wet river mud . |
| 15 | Although I ca n't actually recall being prepared for it by my mother , it was only too obvious even to a child of seven years that something was pretty seriously wrong . |
| 16 | Too quick even for a channel click really ! |
| 17 | So was the hard , strong outline of his body , very evident even through the covering of his clothes . |
| 18 | That hole 's getting too small even for a size ten like Belle . ’ |
| 19 | It is tempting to dismiss Symphony as yesterday 's software on the grounds that it now looks very unexciting even as a DOS product . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the kind of fur Sister Dew thought Miss Broome 's coat might be — but apparently it would be too expensive even for a canon 's daughter . ’ |
| 21 | This , combined with the richness of the data , makes the material eminently readable even for the non-researcher . |