Example sentences of "[to-vb] even the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to explain that she had been too nervous to go in the kitchen and cook it , too lily-livered to turn her back to the window as she lit the gas , too timorous to cause even the tiny sounds of roasting game . |
| 2 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 3 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm simply telling you how it was just in case you 've forgotten — alcohol has a rather mind-numbing effect and after all you would n't want to forget even the tiniest part of so wonderful an evening , would you ? ’ |
| 6 | Insecticides can now be used with a considerable degree of precision to control even the worst attacks of most pests . |
| 7 | The Infinity Drive exerted exactly equal stress — which was to say almost none — on all parts of the contained structure , and a ship like the Simonova was never likely to be required to approach even the outer atmosphere of a planet , far less to land . |
| 8 | And how was anyone to make even the bottom step of that wretched ladder thing when the launch was rising and falling like a demented yo-yo ? |