Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] even [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 2 | In London Herzen pointed out that not even the eighteenth-century rebel Emel'ian Pugachev had been shot " on the sly " like Petrov . |
| 3 | This would be all very well if we were on the high road to eliminating death altogether ; but this is a claim that not even the boldest scientist can make . |
| 4 | Any unsoundness should be fully checked out , to convince yourself that not even the possible tendency to develop that unsoundness is likely to be passed on . |
| 5 | ( Thus , he said that the Brno Congress had accepted the demand for ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ , when it had not ; indeed , Lenin made the point that not even the Austrian party had accepted the southern Slav position . ) |
| 6 | No calculated glances , no abrupt addresses , no stratagems , just the easy politeness , he thought , of the worldly gentleman and not even a sly request for a hot stone or a late candle to his room . |
| 7 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 8 | Barney Moss either did n't know who had staked the seed money … or he was n't telling , and not even the Spanish Inquisition was going to change that state of affairs . |
| 9 | ‘ I have had nothing but support from the chairman , and not even the slightest hint of the dreaded vote of confidence . |
| 10 | Little Bear , who is supposed to be asleep , keeps interrupting him — he 's scared of the dark and not even the biggest lantern from the cupboard can light up the night looming beyond the cave . |
| 11 | But not even a full-time repair unit could keep up with the constant breaching of the fencing . |
| 12 | But not even the picturesque village setting could alter the impression that the XVIth triennial meeting of the International Council of Museums ( ICOM , 19–26 September ) was a colossal waste of time and money . |
| 13 | Reporters spent the day scurrying around in far from dignified fashion but not even the foreign television networks , with the vast logistical operations they run , were able to establish any sightings or obtain any hard information . |