Example sentences of "[subord] even a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 2 | But , beware , because even a cursory flip through will leave thumps in throat at the thought of so much majestic machinery now turned into razor blades . |
| 3 | Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem . |
| 4 | It provides a near-fatal argument against conventionalism as even a decent interpretation of our practice . |
| 5 | Poorly ventilated and stagnant spaces must be opened up to a constant current of air by the introduction of new ventilation openings as even a vigorous attack of dry rot can be arrested ( but not reduced ) by exposure to fresh air . |