Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] even the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's not anything to do with biology or psychology or any science or the old philosophies — it 's something so deep that even the most delicately poised approach almost inevitably occludes it .
2 The fact was that distrust of Chamberlain ran so deep that even the most unequivocal supporter of rearmament in the labour movement could not give unreserved support to his Government 's military preparations .
3 Sometimes and in some places , the labour is so time-consuming that even the most hard-working of parents can not manage it unaided .
4 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 .
5 The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared .
6 After a demoralising season of gallery retractions and closures , more severe than even the most pessimistic expectations of a year ago , it is gratifying to report a promising new gallery which opened in a large industrial space in West Hampstead in the middle of last month .
7 Gozzard wanted to deal with headhunters who were businessmen and businesswomen in their own right , and this was much more important than even the most sophisticated data banks .
8 Beneath and down-wind of the ash cloud there is a steady rain of fine ash particles , sometimes falling so thickly that a dark curtain appears to be hanging beneath the cloud , while in and around it electrical storms rage , with lightning flickering frequently , so that the whole effect is much more dramatic than even the most ominous of thunderclouds .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Not at all ; good writing is so infernally difficult that even the most modest achievement ( and Pound 's claims for some of these poets are modest indeed ) should not go unacknowledged .
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