Example sentences of "[subord] even [art] [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 2 | If even a radical liberal felt obliged to make such disavowals it may seem paradoxical to suggest that what was being discussed was , in fact , democracy . |
| 3 | By 1910 the equivalent unit in the Russian foreign ministry was scrutinising more than 150 Russian and foreign newspapers , while even the Ottoman empire had equipped its foreign ministry as early as 1869 with a rudimentary press office whose duties included monitoring the foreign-language papers published on Turkish soil . |
| 4 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 5 | I remember that we were quite concerned that we might be expected to take off from ‘ Argus ’ as even the resident Swordfish seemed to have difficulty . |
| 6 | The French managed to move the artillery across the river Tweed , being — as even the hostile Knox admitted — ‘ in such facts expert ’ . |
| 7 | The Chernobyl visit was just one of many reasons why the inquiry was still running when even the conscientious Barnes decided to take a summer break . |