Example sentences of "[conj] even [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judges ' first meeting was not held until nearly a fortnight after their appointment , and even then the only business was the election of a chairman . |
| 2 | Yet even when ‘ agitation ’ played a large role , until the 1830s — and even then the traditional view was maintained by an older generation of abolitionists — it was seen as giving strength and support to parliamentary initiatives , backing to ‘ influence ’ over political leaders and entailing deference to the consensus of the leaders of parliamentary antislavery . |
| 3 | And even then the poor moribund critters had to be dropped from a great height to get a satisfactory thump for the sound track . |
| 4 | And even then the said imagination must be in some place heavily impregnated with magic , which helps to weaken the walls between the world of the seen and unseen . |
| 5 | Moreover , the descriptive value of the term ‘ Finlandisation ’ and even more the historical parallel with Finland , as previously observed , are questionable . |
| 6 | ‘ Here and here alone ’ , as E. J. Hobsbawm has put it , ‘ the bourgeois and even more the petit-bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness . ’ |
| 7 | Flatliners ' little hallucinatory moral dramas of American atonement ( and even perhaps the other ghost movies ) , have their roots in a different gimmick film Field Of Dreams , which turned the social and political divisions of the Sixties into a family affair which could be sorted by Kevin Costner throwing a baseball around with his ghost dad . |
| 8 | But even here the other member of the department interviewed explained that the syllabus was far less prescriptive than it appeared , and that most members of the department interpreted it fairly flexibly . |
| 9 | Only at Tocra has archaeology confirmed a substantial Greek presence in the fifth century , but even here the Persian period is impoverished compared to what went before . |
| 10 | But even so the soft clang rang sharply in the silence and echoed around him as he made his way down the nave . |
| 11 | But even then the only player of note Cardiff themselves lost was Mark Ring , and he returned from Pontypool after just a year . |
| 12 | The modern or contemporary quarter of Intolerance would make an excellent film in its own right but even then the industrial scene would only be part of the scene setting and would fade in the memory as the hero passes from scene to scene in the ‘ picaresque ’ fashion of so many movies . |
| 13 | Poland 's price system now works , but even there the true extent of value-subtraction is hard to guess . |
| 14 | That may still be true of the set-piece studio interview — though even there the prior indication of ‘ lines of questioning ’ is by no means unknown ( and the viewer would probably be astonished at the general closeness of the atmosphere that prevails in the green room afterwards ) . |