Example sentences of "even [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice .
2 Even the psyche , the temperament of a person finds expression in his speech , to say nothing of his temporary moods and every hearer makes a certain value judgement of a speaker simply on the basis of ‘ what he talks like ’ ( Pulgrum , 1951 , p. 17 ) .
3 But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics .
4 A slot runs along the length of the handle , and even the finial is grooved to receive the tip of the blade .
5 Even the vestibule in which they embraced was overflowing with collectables : a wooden dog , plastic roses in psychedelic profusion , sugar skulls on plates .
6 The point here is that if cultural modernity is to be understood in terms of the separation and even the transcendence or ‘ aura ’ of aesthetic realism , then post-modernity would be a matter of transgression of the boundaries that separate the aesthetic from other cultural practices and from the social itself .
7 Preservation , it was claimed , had not only jeopardized the market 's move to Docklands but even the survival of the fishing industry of Great Britain !
8 Second , the prosperity and even the survival of many private enterprises depends largely on the workings of the social services .
9 Furthermore , the national rivalries between the industrial countries — in the recent past between the Soviet Union and the US , and at present between the three centres of economic power represented by Japan , the European Community and the US — are potentially more dangerous to the wellbeing , or even the survival , of humanity .
10 Rachel had imagined that the accident would put paid to Family Day and that the other activities , including the firework display , would be cancelled , but within the hour a message came through from the hospital from Sir Anthony to say that , because miraculously there had been no fatalities , with even the pilot surviving his injuries , it was his express wish that the Family Day celebration should continue .
11 At I prepared to return to Britain , several of my relatives gave me copies of their identity cards , the deed for their houses and even the ownership documents for their property .
12 But he also recognises a genuine wish among a notoriously apathetic electorate for an alternative to the failed sectarian system , upon which even the Alliance must rely for its existence .
13 It makes it abundantly clear that even the possession and academic presentation of information necessary for an ethnography could be actionable .
14 Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering .
15 Even the accusation that the Anonymous Fellowships require a religious understanding and belief is unfounded .
16 Even the digression up to Cajamarca now seemed in retrospect more like an adventure than something to send shivers down the spine .
17 THE FERGIE expected to swell the gate at Old Trafford tonight is not Manchester United 's wallet waver , nor even the creator of Budgie the Helicopter .
18 THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head .
19 Even the ECSC was experiencing problems in sectoral integration , while the other agencies were all merely intergovernmental in character .
20 Even the mid-week football slot has been pushed back to 11.20pm from its prime slot after News at Ten .
21 Even the chairman of the CEGB , Sir Arthur Hawkins , once described the AGR programme as ‘ a catastrophe we must not repeat ’ .
22 Even the chairman was n't allowed to look in without Chapman 's permission . ’
23 NOW EVEN THE CHAIRMAN CAN RE-CYCLE TO WORK .
24 So in the end , even the chairman agreed I was right .
25 ‘ Someone mentioned Mike Slide , the head of the department , and even the chairman of the company , Stephen Blufton . ’
26 Even the chairman of the National Westminster bank has conceded that they should look at that issue .
27 So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning .
28 The press , the Catholic church and even the army are held in far higher regard .
29 Then even the choice of the surface ( having the wire as its boundary ) might tax to the limit one 's meagre imagination , let alone the calculation of the flux .
30 No , it 's not the supplier or even the choice of hardware which worries me .
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