Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | That said , the car felt extremely solid and well screwed together , exterior panel gaps were uniformly narrow and even and all the doors shut with a satisfying ‘ thunk ’ . |
| 2 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 3 | Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there . |
| 4 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 5 | While there are countless instances of cheerful competence in schools , there are many others where morale has dropped so low that even these two minimum conditions can not be met . |
| 6 | In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation . |
| 7 | Another is that commercial property is intrinsically less liquid than even distressed third-world debt . |
| 8 | TCD makes the task of tidying and organising much simpler and even enjoyable . |
| 9 | Suggesting that life under Hitler was so bloody that even his deputy wanted to get out . |
| 10 | Some fluxes , especially ‘ self-cleaning ’ ones , are highly corrosive and even a small amount left inside the pipe can cause corrosion problems — particularly in central heating systems . |
| 11 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
| 12 | We can legitimately think of an ants nest as a civilization : its members carry out highly specific or even very generalized tasks in pursuit of the common good . |
| 13 | My heart grew sick and I could n't eat , a phenomenon so strange that even Father noticed and asked what was wrong . |
| 14 | He was on his way south from a place called Nunyerry when , he said , monsoon clouds forced him to fly lower and lower into the Turner Ranges , one of those areas of outback Australia that are so inhospitable that even the local animals hibernate below ground . |
| 15 | Jenny was heartily relieved that the recent bad weather had made the track so muddy that even the passionate and rather drunk Ted had not dared go any further . |
| 16 | ‘ East or west all woods must fail ’ is then a statement of exactly the same class as ‘ The Road goes ever on and on ’ : literally true , literally unhelpful or even banal , but in its literal truth making a symbolic promise . |
| 17 | The slogan is so grey-haired that even at party conferences it would n't get a ripple of applause . |
| 18 | It makes it abundantly clear that even the possession and academic presentation of information necessary for an ethnography could be actionable . |
| 19 | The main difference between the utilitarianism of Hutcheson and Hume , and that of Bentham , is that for the former it figured mainly as an account of our actual moral feelings , whereas for the latter it was not only this but even more the basis of a critique of current morality . |
| 20 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 21 | Already the biggest obstacle to the dissemination of improved techniques of mud building is that scientists and housing experts have decried mud so much that even the poor , who have no alternative to mud , do not want to live in it . |
| 22 | This weakens the leaf 's connection to the tree so much that even a light breeze can blow it off . |
| 23 | Had it changed so much that even he — the cornerstone — began to doubt their course ? |
| 24 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 25 | However , although this still may be effective in the less-developed world where about 50 per cent of the world 's labour force are still engaged in agriculture ( Grigg , 1976 ) it can no longer be used in the developed world for , as the next section shows , primary employment in most western countries has fallen below 10 or even 5 per cent . |
| 26 | The surprise and shock registered yet again on Ewen 's face were so real that even I , if this time I had not known better , would have thought them genuine . |
| 27 | Direct military intervention on the ground would be extremely dangerous and even foolhardy without an effective ceasefire . |
| 28 | The power delegated to him must never be misused for merely personal or even dynastic ends . |
| 29 | The Miscarriage Association believes that one in three pregnancies end in miscarriage often so early that even the mother is not aware . |
| 30 | However , while the romantic is afraid of being ordinary , Jesus was so ordinary that even his own family could see nothing special about him . |