Example sentences of "[to-vb] even the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply , this is a blanket opposition to the bosses , but is also a refusal to accept even the idea of acknowledged leadership . |
| 2 | It is known that the sea is cruel , but it is also humourless , so few laughs are prompted by this book and after some glum pages it is easy to crave even the schoolboy humour of Stephen Leacock 's skit , Soaked in Seaweed . |
| 3 | Desperately he clung to it unable to bear even the thought of the nothingness again , and felt Fox 's fury lash against him . |
| 4 | His zest for living had to encompass even the risk of dying . |
| 5 | The Sensorites ’ combined power of illusion is great enough to swamp even the Doctor s deductive abilities . |
| 6 | But , in principle , an enterprise might be so inefficient that its revenues fail to cover even the cost of materials . |
| 7 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 8 | In the not-too-distant past the attitude of physicians was very much to avoid even the suggestion of hypoglycaemic reactions at any time , and always to keep a little glucose in the urine , especially at bedtime . |
| 9 | Parliament , he said , had been careful to avoid even the appearance of countenancing such a doctrine . |
| 10 | To deduce even the sequence of the pieces of wire was difficult enough , but sufficient wire was played back through a specially made read-out head to establish beyond doubt what had happened . |
| 11 | Her holy obstinacy , her sulky refusal to bend her stubborn head to emperors , fathers , lovers , or dragons had proved strong enough to conquer even the need to kill . |
| 12 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 13 | We can expect to see even the shortcoming overcome — from past experience the author will produce a sequel which summarises the technology and does better justice to the applications . |
| 14 | It would be unwise to allow even the possibility of criticism on a matter as important as adjudication . |
| 15 | He pushed his food off the table and refused to eat even the cheesecake . |
| 16 | The game plan is to grow big enough to threaten even the city giants . |
| 17 | They all stood in the rapidly darkening garden , most of them glad to have even the illusion of activity to take their minds off the unchanging situation . |
| 18 | ‘ They 'll hold a properly hit shot , but they 'll be quick enough to test even the Swede , and they 'll put the wind up some of ‘ em . ’ |
| 19 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |