Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] even [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it hard even to visit his old sidekick Bundini when he was dying . |
| 2 | After flirting with Modernism in his earlier fiction , John Fowles was to deride the whole idea as late as 1982 , with Mantissa , which makes elaborate fun of the tradition of Joyce and argues that fiction may find it hard even to survive the grinding tedium of the nouveau roman . |
| 3 | The instances and their relations are subject to a degree of variation which would make it anachronistic even to posit a universal phenomenon called ‘ the state ’ . |
| 4 | The punishing rain made it difficult even to breathe . |
| 5 | The extent of this digestion makes it difficult even to identify the prey animals , and the teeth are so fragile that any disturbance of these specimens during transport or burial would be likely to destroy them completely . |
| 6 | It was not until November 1959 that Moscow deemed it necessary even to send a TASS correspondent to Havana . |