Example sentences of "[adv] even [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's dark enough onstage to hide myriad gloomy sins ; dark enough even to hide the receding hairlines and sweaty T-shirts of ageing college boy rock . |
| 2 | ‘ Osman personally does n't have money enough even to pay the interest , ’ said Nikos . |
| 3 | It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary . |
| 4 | He was in effect doing nothing … so even retaining the formation we should have had a midfielder in his postion . |
| 5 | Being together even wrought a curious change in their characters ; Oldfield noticed that something of his diffidence seemed to have rubbed off on Branson . |
| 6 | The radical agenda runs something like this : Labour ought to begin talks with the Liberal Democrats on PR ; negotiate electoral pacts with that party , so that they can achieve a majority in 1996 , not just in order to form a government , but to introduce PR ; abandon links with the trade unions , eschew egalitarian tax policies , perhaps even abandon the name ‘ Labour ’ , so as to disavow any claim of being a party that primarily represents a working class that , in self-identification , is constantly dwindling . |
| 7 | There had to be when they were working together , worshipping tripping over one another in their free time , perhaps even sharing a house . |
| 8 | Heedless of their cries and struggles , perhaps even whistling a merry tune , Peter strolled among the shelves filling a capacious shopping trolley . |
| 9 | Sir Thomas drank a lot of coffee , and as this is often given as an enema in atropine poisoning cases , it might have led to his being sick , perhaps even delayed the onset of symptoms . |
| 10 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 11 | We should seek to retain some definition in form by re-using certain melodic shapes , repeating certain note-successions or rhythms , perhaps even re-quoting an entire section which gives the main message of the work . |
| 12 | Britain has been muttering that if it perceives a ‘ consensus for democracy ’ in Hong Kong , it will start ‘ talking tough ’ to Peking at a diplomatic level , and perhaps even adopt the Legislative Council proposals for 1995 in the teeth of Chinese opposition and without regard to ‘ convergence ’ with the Basic Law . |
| 13 | Imagination can be stimulated by the setting itself and also through awakening the senses , touching objects , experiencing sounds , tastes and smells , perhaps even playing a short excerpt of period music . |
| 14 | This would reduce imports , save jobs and perhaps even provide the once promised ‘ peace dividend ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 16 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 17 | I never thought to see such nastiness , not even serving the Gruagach , I did n't . |
| 18 | The 28-year-old singer did not even wear a wedding dress for the service , which she kept secret from most of her friends . |
| 19 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 20 | Indeed , the Federal Government did not even consult the bank before making its announcement on GMU . |
| 21 | I need not even mention the agitation surrounding race and racialism and immigration in the unique circumstances of the last twenty years in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | She did not even mention the military involvement in the rebellion or the officer widely believed to have led it , the cashiered Colonel Gregorio Honasan . |
| 23 | Neglected , possibly — there are only two recordings listed in The Classical Catalogue , and Alan Walker does not even mention the piece in his standard biography ( Faber : 1989 ) . |
| 24 | Lord Bridge of Harwich , Lord Brandon of Oakbrook and Lord Templeman did not even mention the section . |
| 25 | I was disappointed that in his opening speech the Foreign Secretary did not even mention the horrific growth in racial attacks and neo-Nazi bands that are now rampaging around the eastern part of what is now the unified Germany . |
| 26 | He did not make any effort to adapt any aspect of the liturgy and did not even mention the occasion . |
| 27 | On her return , Ashraf reported directly to her brother and did not even send the foreign minister a copy of her conclusions . |
| 28 | By 1992 , the League could not even attract a sponsor , and it seems that , sooner or later , British Sky Broadcasting will also forfeit its input . |
| 29 | It was next to impossible for even the most reactionary supporter of the status quo to claim that Government should not even examine the pensions system . |
| 30 | It was difficult , in any of this , to discover what a future socialist or communist society would be like ; if there was consensus about anything it was that it would not be based upon public ownership , would not be dominated by a single ruling party , would not supersede capitalism and might not even offer an alternative to it . |