Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] even [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1922 only 232 households owned a plough , whilst 278 lacked even a primitive wooden plough with which to turn over their new earth , if indeed they possessed any . |
| 2 | That beats even the £1,784 a week paid last year for unemployed interior designer Peter Julien 's house in Hampstead , London . |
| 3 | But while it is impossible to overstress the importance of Cézanne in the emergence of Cubism , it is wrong to see even the earliest Cubist painting simply as a direct continuation of him . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , the White armies offered the subordinate peoples of the old empire only the same as before , and this made even the Bolsheviks seem acceptable . |
| 5 | This beats even the great Bobby Fischer by a wide margin . |
| 6 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 7 | Contrary to what you are told as a novice , it does in fact pay to let your backside drop into a sitting position — this allows even the shortest sailors to lean back in a relaxed position using their weight as opposed to relying only on arm strength |
| 8 | Thanks to our twice weekly lessons , Olivia and I had now become confident enough in Hindi for the practice of it to become enjoyable rather than tiresome — if only because people were so surprised to hear any non-Indian speak even the most stumbling version of it . |
| 9 | Parliament , he said , had been careful to avoid even the appearance of countenancing such a doctrine . |
| 10 | It would be better not to have an environmental audit if your management is not prepared to adopt even the less radical recommendations . |
| 11 | Most surprising of all , it has demonstrated that the scientific method , as it is presently formulated , is not adequate to explain even the physical universe , let alone human beings and their psyches . |
| 12 | This forced even the most raucous Malthusian pill-pushers to tone down their rhetoric and ‘ integrate ’ family planning into health and development programmes — though their hidden agenda was still to get people to use contraceptives . |
| 13 | This makes even the most honest of answers seem indecisive and uncertain . |
| 14 | When he sat down it was almost impossible to continue even a pro forma debate . |
| 15 | It is known that the sea is cruel , but it is also humourless , so few laughs are prompted by this book and after some glum pages it is easy to crave even the schoolboy humour of Stephen Leacock 's skit , Soaked in Seaweed . |
| 16 | In the not-too-distant past the attitude of physicians was very much to avoid even the suggestion of hypoglycaemic reactions at any time , and always to keep a little glucose in the urine , especially at bedtime . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a lovely piece , not on the same level as Mozart 's , of course , but it 's certainly instructive to hear even a lesser composer 's point of view ! |
| 18 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 19 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 20 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 21 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 22 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 23 | She did n't want to explain that she had been too nervous to go in the kitchen and cook it , too lily-livered to turn her back to the window as she lit the gas , too timorous to cause even the tiny sounds of roasting game . |
| 24 | Some of the best specimens of trunks were preserved cell by cell in silica , and these show even the finest details if they are cut and polished . |
| 25 | Narrow fairways , water carries , 4-foot putts for par , a myriad of challenges likely to reduce even the most hardened player to a quivering wreck . |
| 26 | There was more than one kind of love and he was lucky to have even a small share of hers . |
| 27 | They all stood in the rapidly darkening garden , most of them glad to have even the illusion of activity to take their minds off the unchanging situation . |
| 28 | It would be smooth sailing , if one could determine the course of one 's actions only by one general principle whose application at a given moment was too obvious to need even a moment 's reflection . |
| 29 | It is also likely to bring even the larger authorities face to face with the problem of staff mobility — where the absence of one or two people attending an external course may be relatively easily absorbed ( except in smaller authorities ) , internal training is uneconomic for one or two people — and ideally , lends itself to a continuous programme . |
| 30 | She looked through the drawers of Bob 's desk , curious to explore even the most unconsidered corners of his life . |