Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] even [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The British view that membership of the EEC was in essence about trade persisted through the signing in 1986 of the Single European Act , though in this case even the main text that was agreed ranged rather wider than the limits that the British had set themselves . |
2 | At some frequencies even the best optical fibre available will absorb or scatter light , whereas at other frequencies they will pass light with almost no attenuation or scattering . |
3 | Yet the poor spend a much higher proportion of their income — in some cases even a larger absolute amount — on these goods than do the rich . |
4 | These texts share a fighting tone and a conviction that established forms of literary study , and in some cases even the concept of literature itself , have to be overthrown . |
5 | Feudal organizations provided historical precedents for and in some cases even the institutional forms for modern corporatism ( Maier , 1981 ; Kocka , 1981 ) . |
6 | In some cases even the national interest would have to be considered . |
7 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
8 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
9 | Anyway , Europe boasts a variety of approaches to this tax even the number of VAT periods varies by country — all of which may potentially need accommodating by any accounting system claiming to be pan-European . |
10 | Some things even the best lawyers and lawmakers , the best women and mothers can not overturn . |
11 | There are some things even the man voted the sexiest person in the world by Just Seventeen magazine would n't do . |
12 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
13 | This morning even the scenery could not lift her from her jaundiced mood . |
14 | The tunnel cuts through a saddle into the valley of the Stinchar river , so on a calm morning even a heavy train on the bank could hardly be heard from the Pinmore side of the tunnel . |
15 | There were a few tears even the obstetrician seemed a bit overcome and kept shaking my hand . |
16 | So often on this project even the oldest locals interested in what I was doing had no memory , actual or handed down , of the people mentioned by JTR . |
17 | Occasionally a gelding , or even a mare , may be so aggressive that there is a real possibility of it seriously injuring another horse , especially if there are shelter sheds another horse can be trapped in , although for some horses even the corner of the paddock is enough . |
18 | This time even the much vaunted exit polls , which ask not how people intend to vote but how they did vote , got it wrong . |
19 | The effectiveness of any measure of external fire fighting would be extremely limited whilst the external cladding of a building remains intact and in the case of the taller building even the range of turntable ladders or hydraulic platforms may be insufficient . |
20 | But in those early days even the moot basic information about these various formations was scanty . |
21 | And as the wealth increases in absolute terms even the poorer classes , those who feed but do not run the machine , begin to improve their social conditions and economic power . |
22 | But these critics do not always ask themselves whether any society does not need a degree of unity in order to be a society at all , or how much diversity even a liberal society can tolerate without falling apart . |
23 | In an increasingly profit-driven state even the most conservative parts of the church have had to distance themselves from some policies . |
24 | Assuming similar proportions even a study of 5000 patients would not have shown a significant difference between the two groups . |
25 | But they have proved that with a good plan , persistence and a lot of hard work even a very steep slope can be transformed into a tremendous garden . |
26 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
27 | In economic affairs even the absolutist rulers of central and eastern Europe found themselves abolishing serfdom and dismantling the traditional apparatus of economic state controls and corporate privileges . ] |
28 | There 's golfing and tennis , a magnificent indoor aquarena , bright cafes and lighthearted bars , scintillating nightclubs even a casino in which to try your luck ( from July ) . |
29 | Immediately after the first introduction to gentle straight stalls I demonstrate that in normal flight even a small movement forward results in the same sensation , the feeling of reduced ‘ g ’ . |
30 | When the news of his victory in the Battle of Lagos , as it is known , reached London on 6 September even the perpetually anxious Duke of Newcastle gave way to optimism . |