Example sentences of "have even a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We take it to extremes and wilfully avoid anything which has even a faint tinge of the ‘ essential ’ viewing of any tourist with cultural pretensions . |
| 2 | To offer an explanation of this view doubtless seemed unnecessary , for it must be obvious to anyone who has even a rudimentary grasp of the exigencies of electoral campaigning . |
| 3 | All this did , of course , cost money , but if you 've had even a comparatively small amount of that and then lost it , you do tend to realize how transient the whole thing is and not worry so much about getting it back again . |
| 4 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 5 | By the time I had some sense out of her it was too late to consider having even a coffee . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , many directors do not have even a basic social work qualification but are more influenced by business management . |
| 7 | I would love to play at Molineux , but at the moment I do n't have even a slight hope . |
| 8 | Unlike Leavis 's , Winters 's deconstruction of tradition proved too extreme to have even a temporary lodgement in the academy , though his readings of sixteenth-century poetry have had some influence , and a theorist such as Gerald Graff acknowledges a debt to Winters , who was his teacher . |
| 9 | There was more than one kind of love and he was lucky to have even a small share of hers . |
| 10 | Since no outside authority — whether the employers , the journeymen or the union — ever gratified women 's skills with the respect accorded to men 's , women compositors must have found it hard if not impossible to think of themselves as skilled , or to have even a semblance of the mentality of the skilled journeyman and union member . |
| 11 | It 's quite a problem in a classroom — to have even a twenty six inch colour screen is not good enough . |
| 12 | Others , like Hayling , obviously had talent , but none of them had even a fraction of the experience or ability which had twice earned him the Journalist of the Year award for his coverage of Vietnam and Cambodia . |
| 13 | Not one of them had even a plucked smidgeon of the pseudo-lesbian strap-on-dildo shaggability of a McCartney or a Cassidy , but that did not matter . |
| 14 | Of course , if you have even a distant eye on a whole series of books featuring one detective ( and the late Margery Allingham once pointed out to me that the advantage of this is that half your potential readers want to read you and half want to read about your sleuth ) , then you are likely to land in difficulties if you hit on , say , a Victorian governess who happens to deal in the course of her scholastic career with as many as twenty or thirty " orrible murders . |
| 15 | The Joint Land Requirements Committee carried out an interesting public survey which showed that very few people ( 8 per cent ) have even a broadly correct impression of the actual proportion , and a third perceived the proportion to be ten times greater than it is . |