Example sentences of "[verb] even the basic " in BNC.
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1 | The woman is looking me straight in the eyes , Alida thought , she does not know even the basic elements of courtesy , she has paid no attention at all to the very relevant account of my condition . |
2 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
3 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
4 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
5 | He was slow to use even the basic idea of evolution in his paleontological work , and did so only in the mid 1860s after reading the work of the German evolutionist Ernst Haeckel . |