Example sentences of "even to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of this report is not to demand that brewers turn the block back to 1620 , 1720 , 1820 or even to 1920 ; pubs have to make money , and have to adapt to some extent to changing needs and expectations . |
| 2 | For if Mrs Phipps been clever enough to manage her husband 's murder , then she was too bright to make such uninhibited admissions , even to a sympathetic vicar 's wife , other than in the knowledge that she 'd nothing to hide . |
| 3 | A bad swing can easily lead to a serious ground loop or even to cart-wheeling and a broken glider . |
| 4 | To achieve crosswind landing exactly on the spot without using the engine and in a strange machine offers a strong challenge even to the most experienced pilot . |
| 5 | The scourging voice always did this , whatever golden kernel of hope she treasured , so scared of losing it , it was almost a secret even to herself … the voice seized it , shredded it , pissed on it , trampled it . |
| 6 | It is not justified by viewing his work comprehensively , even to 1967 ; still less so to 1978 when Scobie wrote . |
| 7 | BS is like a man who knows all about swimming , even to the point of being able to train the Olympic team , but who can not swim himself , and V is the man with the normal talent for swimming . |
| 8 | Even though the boys and girls are figments of Robbins ' imagination , their brief encounter is based in reality even to the introduction of popular dance steps and stylistic elements current during the 1939–45 war . |
| 9 | I 'll tell you about Evan Roberts later , and there 's plenty to tell even to those who buy a magazine simply because it says Climber on the cover . |
| 10 | There might be regrets over giving up the novel , but after having been deeply interested in that form for many years ( even to the extent of writing one ) and often teaching courses on the novel , I have come to the conclusion that the pedagogic difficulties involved are extreme . |
| 11 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 12 | I believe a close examination of his recorded opinions , and of the idiom in which those opinions were expressed ( an idiom , even to the end , as much British as American ) , would show that Pound too was not insensible to the ideal of the aristocratic amateur in the arts , and was at least sometimes resentful , just as Yeats was , that political and socio-economic developments had made that attitude to the arts impracticable and sterile . |
| 13 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 14 | The scale on which Pound was working was not clear even to the poet himself ; so that the eleven cantos which he originally designated as ‘ preparation of the palette ’ are now by responsible commentators considerably extended — to the extent that the first thirty cantos , which are all that the twenties knew of the poem ( A Draft of XVI Cantos ( Paris , June 1925 ) ; A Draft often Cantos 17–27 ( 100 copies , September 1928 ) ; and A Draft of XXX Cantos ( 210 copies , August 1930 ) ) , are now often regarded as laying out no the painter 's palette the hues that only in subsequent cantos would be combined to polemical and imaginative purpose . |
| 15 | Boxing : Sky lines up for a classic TV fight : Neil Wilson on the big battle of the small screen and growing threat of the extra terrestrial to the conventional channels : ‘ We 're not averse even to putting major sport on our movie channel .. |
| 16 | ‘ We 're not averse even to putting major sport on our movie channel , as HBO ( a US cable company ) do with Wimbledon . ’ |
| 17 | This last quality was , however , manifest in his second ( and best ) film , Le Coeur Battant ( 1961 ) , a witty and enchanting comedy about a couple in a small seaside resort — she ( Francoise Brion ) waiting for her lover to arrive and he ( Jean-Louis Trintignant ) gradually falling in love with her but refusing to admit it even to himself . |
| 18 | Today people are wondering why a country which , according to Mr Lawson not long ago , was experiencing an ‘ economic miracle ’ , has been reduced to such public squalor — dirty , violent , congested and broken down , prone even to third-world disasters ? |
| 19 | But Graham Steward , director of Hambros treasury and capital markets division , said that the principle could be extended to currencies and small companies , and perhaps even to individuals , for example to hedge mortgages . |
| 20 | But the sound of leadership campaigning had been clearly audible even to the doughtiest Thatcher-devotees , and most were prepared , if pressed , to take sides . |
| 21 | Instead of reacting against the bias in their chosen paper , readers tended ( at the margin ) to defend their paper ( if it was biased against their party ) or even to glory in its bias ( if it was biased in favour of their party ) . |
| 22 | Yet Eliot seems to have been attracted even to the most unlikely sources , including even Conan Doyle 's ‘ The Musgrave Ritual ’ . |
| 23 | ’ Like Muir , Eliot had won through to a vision of final acceptance , which allowed him to look back even to Sweeney and to call him , at Columbia in 1958 , ‘ friend ’ . |
| 24 | It was one of the more simple reasons why she denied the pregnancy , even to herself , for so long . |
| 25 | Then , one day , she had lost her temper , completely , suddenly and , even to herself , shockingly . |
| 26 | They have lent forms and skills even to the great serpent who beguiled Eve , who swallowed Jonah and who wrestled in the wilderness with the young man from Nazareth . |
| 27 | The introduction of cash crops and an increasing population acted together to increase pressure on the land significantly , in specific cases even to critical levels , such as in Ruanda and in the ‘ reserves ’ of Kenya and Zimbabwe . |
| 28 | On Saturday night at the end of the Rosary Moran said , ‘ I want to offer a final prayer to God that He may guide your father on the right course , ’ and they all knew , even to the boy Michael , to what he was referring . |
| 29 | Within the local community it had survived during the Middle Ages and even to a certain extent right up to the nineteenth century , in spite of a foreign overlay of feudal institutions coming from western and southern Europe . |
| 30 | It is remarkable how this interest extends even to topics which do not seem related to the main themes of his studies . |