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 .
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