Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] even [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times are so hard at the Manor Ground that even the manager has had to return his club car . |
| 2 | Jaq doubted that even the most towering of storms could engulf the uppermost reaches of Vasilariov . |
| 3 | Jaques ( the ‘ Glacier investigations ’ ) found that even a well-defined role in the organisation posed problems for the person expected to fill it with regard to the exercise of authority . |
| 4 | The bridge humbucker has been designed to give a very hot response indeed , and I found that even the centre single coil kicked the amp quite nicely . |
| 5 | Mrs Brundtland , Norway 's Prime Minister , complained about it to Mrs Thatcher and New Scientist reported that even the CEGB 's own scientists ‘ discreetly let it be known that they were annoyed by the final version of the video . ’ |
| 6 | Under Irish law , abortion is a criminal offence and recently the courts ruled that even the provision of information on abortion is now illegal . |
| 7 | She realised that even the keepers of the secrets did not know them all . |
| 8 | As the living room of his end-terraced council house in Cherrywood Drive , Beith , Ayrshire , became a court , Mr McTear admitted that even the awful price of his former 60-a-day habit could not rid him of the temptation . |
| 9 | He argued that even the procurement of raw materials from abroad should be subject to government control . |
| 10 | I noticed that even the adults showed no ill effects at all when I moved the odd battered brother or post-spawning female to recoup in a low pH growing-on tank . |
| 11 | We had heard that the paths ahead were precarious and exposed , but my heart sank when I noticed that even the horses were being blindfolded . |
| 12 | Abroad other leftists noticed that even the British were fighting their police . |
| 13 | The floor was a continuous mosaic of eight-sided tiles , the corridor walls were angled to give the corridors eight sides if the walls and ceilings were counted and , in those places where part of the masonry had fallen in , Twoflower noticed that even the stones themselves had eight sides . |
| 14 | Dolphins were frequently observed in the nets , and Greenpeace estimated that even the reduced fleet of 20 vessels probably killed some 4600 dolphins during the season . |
| 15 | The optimistic invasion by American companies receded and even the long-established British insurers faced financial difficulty in 1992 . |
| 16 | A storm of laughter arose and even the tiniest child joined in . ’ |
| 17 | But EEI President Thomas Kuhn acknowledged that even the most optimistic environmentalists do not believe anything like that number of electric vehicles will be on the streets , even in the next 20 years . |
| 18 | In the mid 1970s an IPM survey showed that even the most popular tests were used by fewer than 10 per cent of companies . |
| 19 | Van den Berghs ' marketing director Bill Young took the UK marketer of the year trophy in recognition of his deft handling of the I Ca n't Believe It 's Not Butter controversy , which showed that even the monolithic Unilever can be quick on its feet when its brands are under threat . |
| 20 | Then Olybrius ' fury flared and even the ground shook in fear . |
| 21 | However , in 1964 two more Americans , J. W. Cronin and Val Fitch , discovered that even the CP symmetry was not obeyed in the decay of certain particles called K-mesons . |
| 22 | Several people ended up with wet feet and all the cats vanished and even the kids who were trying to help got the odd clout for ‘ gettin' under our feet ’ . |
| 23 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 24 | She warned that even the first injection of hard drugs can kill . |
| 25 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 26 | He argued that matter and spirit were manifestations of a single underlying substance — which meant that even the most primitive form of life had some spiritual qualities . |
| 27 | This meant that even the more suspicious members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's general subject panel who took part in later studies appeared to be genuinely surprised when they were given subsequent memory tests . |
| 28 | I feared that even an emergency home call might go unheeded . |
| 29 | Marcion felt that even the apostles themselves had seriously misunderstood the intentions of their Master by failing to see how utterly new his message was . |
| 30 | Everyone felt that even the attainment of a small portion of Palestine for the Palestinian Arabs would be a triumph . |