Example sentences of "[conj] even [art] [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 2000 years ago the Greeks realised that a full turn or even a right angle was far too large an amount of turn for many situations . |
| 2 | The collective expression of an individual nomadic group , village , region or even an entire country is , however , modified by the wider unifying influences of culture , religion and ethnic origin . |
| 3 | By comparison , advertising plays a much less important role in industrial markets , where even the first stage is dominated by personal selling . |
| 4 | Severe criticism of these ideas did little to detract from the belief that even a sickly press was preferable to the Soviet and authoritarian theories outlined by Siebert et al . |
| 5 | Although we have offered a fairly simplistic version of these theories we can still see that even a simplified version is very complex . |
| 6 | However , Kent County Council pointed out that even the higher figure was only just over 1% of daily lorry movements in the county . |
| 7 | Solidarity with the Spanish Republic undermined the pacifism of many on the left , and Russell knew that he was swimming against the tide when he urged the friends of peace to ‘ avoid the crusading spirit … in relation to Spain , on the grounds that even the best cause is not worth a great war . ’ |
| 8 | There was a certainty — a vitality — in his every movement , such that even the slightest hesitancy was telling . |
| 9 | I accept that , although I gather that even the German Parliament is deeply divided on how much of it and how much of the Government should move from Bonn to Berlin . |
| 10 | Where possible , fieldworkers attempted to record a male and a female at each address , and since very often both were not at home at the time of the first visit , a second and even a third visit was arranged to most addresses . |
| 11 | T-shirts and posters are selling like hot cakes , and books , stickers , videos and even a monthly magazine are on the way . |
| 12 | The shop stocked un-Irish books also , and even the smallest volume was treated and presented with greater care than has ever been known in the bookworm paradises of Charing Cross Road or Hay-on-Wye . |
| 13 | But hare and even the odd gazelle were available locally . |
| 14 | And even the Polish issue was a contingent one : |
| 15 | Loch Ranza opened to us a complete change of scene : there were houses , a church , an inn , and even the old castle was allowed to retain its site , and guide the fishers in their homeward course . |
| 16 | It 's fine to pass Acts but even a good Act are no good if their parents are expected to care for the child without resources . |
| 17 | The knife did not tip the scales much to his advantage , but even a slim chance was better than none . |
| 18 | But even the safest-seeming science is going to be obsolete sooner or later ; obsolete taxonomy , like that of Swainson or Agassiz , is as dead as the dodo , and those who took the risks of Darwinism usually found it interesting and fruitful . |
| 19 | An extraordinary number of subscribers ad donors had turned up , all the select society of the town ; but even the most unselect were admitted , provided they brought the cash . |
| 20 | Ruth lay on her back and tried not to move , because even the slightest movement was torment , but when the spasms of pain stabbed her it was hard to keep still . |
| 21 | Alas , I was to reach the age of sixty and retire before even the first sod was turned , but I am happy to relate that the building is now complete and occupied by AIB . |
| 22 | Almost two years elapsed before even the initial visit was made , making the applicant think that her application had been turned down . |
| 23 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 24 | Beluga whales emit distress calls when even a conventional icebreaker is 80 k ( 50 miles ) away , and flee when such vessels approach within 40 k ( 25 miles ) . |