Example sentences of "[subord] even [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 2 | By comparison , advertising plays a much less important role in industrial markets , where even the first stage is dominated by personal selling . |
| 3 | With the exception of the astronauts who visited the Moon , space travellers do not go beyond low-Earth orbit , where even the attenuated magnetic field and atmosphere provide some protection from radiation . |
| 4 | It may nevertheless be better than even a reasonable harmonium or American organ . |
| 5 | Indeed , advice work is certainly more complex today than even a few years ago . |
| 6 | But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle . |
| 7 | No wonder Milton was aware that the ways of God needed more justifying than even the greatest of English epics could contrive to do ; and Paradise Lost , as Empson believed , is a poem more than occasionally conscious of the ultimate injustice of the dogma of atonement , and it thrives poetically on its contradictions . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) When the clothing lasts far longer than even the best quality jeans , and costs no more , how will the agents maintain a business based on clothes bought near enough once in a lifetime ? ( 3 ) Is anyone stupid enough to want to wear heavy-duty , fur-lined , withstands-bloody-cold-arctic-conditions clothing in the summer ? |
| 9 | The years have been kind to Irene , though she 's still a lot more tired and worn than even the roughest of our nurses . |
| 10 | What would happen if he took the glass from her hand and kissed her parted lips Harry glimpsed in that instant , prefigured in the alluring darkness of her dress , darker , it seemed , than even the deepest of the shadows around them . |
| 11 | The resulting aircraft is much more versatile than even the legendary DC-3 and avoids the ever increasing costs of maintaining and operating a piston engined aircraft — turbine fuel is available worldwide but fuel for reciprocating engines is available in an ever diminishing number |
| 12 | It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians . |
| 13 | Our main 1979 survey was designed largely to throw light on this relationship between people 's knowledge about credit and how they make actual shopping decisions — the first major study to explore this in this country , and more searching in this respect than even the valuable American studies carried out recently for the National Commission on Consumer Finance and the Federal Reserve Board . |
| 14 | In an ideal world I would have far more bogwood than even the extended budget allows , but I expect this could be remedied over the ensuring months . |
| 15 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 16 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 17 | Although even the best tape cassettes could not outperform the best LPs , they were much more rugged , and did not develop annoying clicks . |
| 18 | Tens of thousands of Dark Elves were butchered until even the hardiest Elf captains ' stomachs were sickened . |
| 19 | If they taught Shakespeare , for example , it was acted in class , discussed and argued about until even the tough little Durham miners ' sons knew all about Titania 's motivations in A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 20 | If even a radical liberal felt obliged to make such disavowals it may seem paradoxical to suggest that what was being discussed was , in fact , democracy . |
| 21 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 22 | The great hope of eradicating malaria has faded : new battles must be fought and new weapons devised if even the present level of control is to be maintained . |
| 23 | But , beware , because even a cursory flip through will leave thumps in throat at the thought of so much majestic machinery now turned into razor blades . |
| 24 | Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem . |
| 25 | He was probably sent there to take a look at some local biochemical machines because even a quick glance would be very revealing to an expert , and Ralph Pike is an expert . |
| 26 | COMPUTER users , both professional and amateur , dread power cuts because even a short interruption can lose all the data in the machine 's memory . |
| 27 | This is because even a so-called tangible asset represents not so much a physical item as the rights to use that physical item , which in turn derive from ownership or other rights . |
| 28 | Because even the smallest feldspar grains luminesce brightly , a far more accurate estimate of the percentage of feldspar in a clastic sediment is obtained by point-counting under CL . |
| 29 | Women with a family history of allergies are always advised to breastfeed because even the modified milk in infant formula can provoke an allergic reaction . |
| 30 | They are good with tourists , because even the young ones can get by in English and French . |