Example sentences of "[adv] even [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So even a bit of custard would |
| 2 | So , when Mr Goodman enquired about him , George was eager to come to Selhurst Park and most Palace historians agree that , had he done so even a month before the end of 1924–25 , the Palace would never have been relegated from Division Two . |
| 3 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 4 | ‘ So even the performing seals are disgusted with his cheeseparing by now , and that night the lyric soprano breaks one of the hoops of her crinoline in the middle of her best love song because he would n't run to proper whalebone , and I take myself aside and say to myself … . ’ |
| 5 | Undressing is easier than dressing , as it does not involve so much planning , so even the patient with perceptual problems can generally manage . |
| 6 | Its civilised debates introduced topics largely ignored elsewhere and calmed down even the kind of politician who always seems to be addressing a public meeting . |
| 7 | The difficulty with this is that Althusser ( and Engels ) are convincingly describing a change in problematic , perhaps even a paradigm shift , but it is not clear that what went on before is contrastable as ideology , as non-science . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the duke might give the post to someone who would take it in order to oblige the town council of Glasgow , perhaps even a member of that council , or one of the town 's lawyers . |
| 9 | uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened . |
| 10 | but enormous creatures , perhaps even a yard across . |
| 11 | Admittedly we can discern glimmerings of intelligent thought involving the location of sub-goals and the execution of sub-strategies , a grasp of ‘ causality ’ , perhaps even a grasp of the internal motivational states of others , as disclosed by their behaviour ; and some experimenters have even looked for signs of a sense of self , and even of intimation of mortality . |
| 12 | Perhaps even a nome could have instincts . |
| 13 | He uses crack and cocaine and amphetamines , then more crack and more cocaine and perhaps even a speedball to round things off . |
| 14 | His eyes settled on the young man 's face , finding nothing but open friendship there ; perhaps even a degree of admiration . |
| 15 | The next book must break new ground , provide new insights , provide a new way of looking , or perhaps even a way of re-seeing the familiar . |
| 16 | ‘ It was probably a fox moving around in the bushes , or perhaps even a badger . |
| 17 | The idea seems strange : is not transgression a liberation from , a moving beyond ; a breaking out , perhaps even a progression ? |
| 18 | In the SE corner lies a ciborium in the form of a Gothic steeple , perhaps even a model of that planned for St Vitus ' . |
| 19 | Indeed Jacob values settlements sufficiently to suggest that a power , or perhaps even a duty , should be imposed on the court to promote a settlement or compromise between the parties . |
| 20 | One might ask why this sudden change occurred , and whether there was a change of attitude by Gillray , perhaps even a conversion pushing him from critic to defender of monarchy . |
| 21 | Jenkins ' quotation of Hugh Dalton 's account of the Sunday morning gathering will induce a sense of déjà vu : ‘ Dalton recorded that ( Douglas ) Jay took the lead , and advocated dropping further nationalisation , loosening the link with the trade unions , changing the name from ‘ Labour ’ ( as too class-conscious ) , and making an alliance , and perhaps even a merger , with the Liberal Party . |
| 22 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 23 | For Shirley , who has battle with asthma on a daily basis , the genetic research has no direct bearings yet , but for her children 's children , it could make better treatment , perhaps even a cure , a reality . |
| 24 | He now faces at least a heavy fine ; perhaps even a jail sentence . |
| 25 | ‘ You can have time off , perhaps even a week for a holiday , if things are quiet . ’ |
| 26 | It is therefore another compact star , perhaps even a pulsar . |
| 27 | If a newly married couple are moving into their first home , for example , you could create a design incorporating both their names , the date of their move and perhaps even the name or location of their house . |
| 28 | The ripples spread out from the point where the stone is dropped and can affect a great area of the pond and perhaps even the whole of it . |
| 29 | And perhaps even the look on J. G. D. McKechnie 's face . |
| 30 | The chief immediate control on women 's actions and opinions was other women ; and girls who wished for one reason or another to do unusual things needed the tolerance , perhaps even the support of their mothers and their mothers ' friends . |