Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] even [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fluxes , especially ‘ self-cleaning ’ ones , are highly corrosive and even a small amount left inside the pipe can cause corrosion problems — particularly in central heating systems . |
| 2 | THERE are some disasters that are so ghastly that even the voyeur averts the eyes . |
| 3 | He was on his way south from a place called Nunyerry when , he said , monsoon clouds forced him to fly lower and lower into the Turner Ranges , one of those areas of outback Australia that are so inhospitable that even the local animals hibernate below ground . |
| 4 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 5 | This is necessary because the psychological action on many bodily processes can be so great that even a sugar pill can have striking therapeutic effects if the person believes it will . |
| 6 | The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared . |
| 7 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 8 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 9 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 10 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |
| 11 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 12 | Dungannon 's Clarke , now attached to the host K Club , has improved his score each day — 75 on Thursday , 73 on Friday and a splendid 70 yesterday — but it is most unlikely that even a golfer of his calibre could make up seven shots in one round . |
| 13 | It is little wonder that even the most confident individuals experience some difficulty in trying to make sense of such an environment , one which is alien to most people . |
| 14 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
| 15 | The planet p' is so small that even the biggest available telescopes can not possibly observe it ; the experimental astronomer applies for a research grant to build yet a bigger one . |
| 16 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
| 17 | Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided . |
| 18 | The vegetation that has not yet been destroyed by the goats and donkeys seems a mass of sharp thorns , and in some places it is so thick that even the goats can get through only on their knees . |
| 19 | It is perhaps appropriate that even the date of the birth of a personality who still eludes us despite the myriad of books written about her is uncertain . |
| 20 | The problem with such a characterisation of pluralism is that it bears little resemblance to what pluralists actually say pluralism means , and consequently it is hardly surprising that even the most cursory of empirical investigations can show such a naive version of pluralism is untenable as a description of the distribution of power in Western liberal democracies . |
| 21 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |
| 22 | ( The growing scarcity of Persian village rugs is increasing their price , however , and it is quite possible that even the shoddiest of these will soon fall into the " medium category " ) . |
| 23 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 24 | The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger . |
| 25 | And everything about her , her long nightdress and the mist she was held in , was so golden-red that even the dark gold skin of her lovely face had a reddish tinge to it . |
| 26 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 27 | The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone . |
| 28 | His good humour was so infectious that even the fräulein managed a wan smile . |
| 29 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 30 | They argued that it was often non-culpable since even the most respectable workers could not always save sufficient to provide for old age — a hazard which not all could expect to live to experience and whose length was uncertain . |