Example sentences of "even for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In New York , gifts of pictures by artists to critics may follow a favourable review , though a critic is likely to refuse payment , even for a catalogue introduction , from a dealer . |
| 2 | If you lose consciousness , even for a second , then you have suffered brain damage and must withdraw from further competition . |
| 3 | Even for the engineer there is still hope . |
| 4 | Coney Island is about staring and he seemed to enjoy being a spectacle even for dirty children with candysmeared mouths . |
| 5 | Applying the 1.6kg tool to metalwork proved easy , even for the inexperienced . |
| 6 | ‘ He never really had a sweet tooth , not even for choc drops . |
| 7 | It could be argued that Blast was a miscalculation all round , even for Wyndham Lewis . |
| 8 | Even for some government cars , diesel is only available on the black market . |
| 9 | But even for more common varieties big money is made . |
| 10 | Moscow News quoted an Interior Ministry colonel as saying it was impossible even for convoys with a military escort to cross into Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 11 | Soviet newspapers said it was impossible even for convoys with a military escort to enter Nagorny Karabakh and compared the situation with Afghanistan . |
| 12 | Those bold enough to put their heads above the parapet — still by no means the majority — feel that to make demands even for basic freedoms is radical , in the present climate . |
| 13 | In the GDR , by contrast , one can not talk of ‘ economic crisis ’ in the sense that one can use that term for Poland , the Soviet Union , and even for Hungary . |
| 14 | In fact , it 's standing room only even for fish fingers . |
| 15 | But even for those who had little or nothing to hide , their sensitivity to the research led , in a minority of cases , to a reluctance to engage in conversation , the resort to silence being something which Westley noted in his research in the United States ( 1970 , p. viii ) . |
| 16 | The symbol which the older and more experienced policemen on the sections use as their model is Dixon of Dock Green , although the avuncular figure of Dixon is ridiculed by many younger policemen as outdated and antiquarian , even for Great Britain . |
| 17 | Compared to the situation just after the introduction of internment in the early 1970s , community relations are said to have improved considerably , which is true even for the period since neighbourhood foot patrols were first introduced following the hunger strikes of 1981 . |
| 18 | Partisanship was the main influence on Thatcher 's and Kinnock 's scores but not Steel 's or Owen 's ; and even for Thatcher and Kinnock the partisan influence was weaker than on other aspects of their image . |
| 19 | If you sound like everyone else , no one will remember you , even for five minutes . |
| 20 | We have seen that localism and the drift to increasingly authoritarian government have been major problems even for Africa 's more successful leaders , and have been disastrous in other cases such as Uganda and Nigeria . |
| 21 | Bear in mind that , even for that amount , you get standard Escort seats , which do n't locate the driver properly in an LX let alone the S. Neither do you get an adjustable steering column . |
| 22 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 23 | Van der post reminded Charles that to slow down , even for a while , would be to give the terrorists what they had wanted . |
| 24 | The wonder is that Purcell , seemingly unable to turn out a pot-boiler even for minor events , produced ten substantial movements which in their vigour and imagination match the royal odes . |
| 25 | Very few of those who write the terrible tabloids , let alone those who read them , are likely to have heard of these ‘ internationally famous ’ sportsmen , so I doubt if they 'd make half of £1,500 even for such tales as Flanker Star Ate My Goolie During Scrum , by England 's Ugliest Prop ; or Sexy Secrets in the Showers , by Welsh Tea Lady . |
| 26 | Very few of those who write the terrible tabloids , let alone those who read them , are likely to have heard of these ‘ internationally famous ’ sportsmen , so I doubt if they 'd make half of £1,500 even for such tales as Flanker Star Ate My Goolie During Scrum , by England 's Ugliest Prop ; or Sexy Secrets in the Showers , by Welsh Tea Lady . |
| 27 | But it is difficult to imagine America 's corporate leaders advocating a crackdown on executive wining-and-dining , even for the Japanese . |
| 28 | The government is predicting real GNP growth of 7% this year , and Mr Choi will not be blamed even for such a ‘ disappointing ’ figure . |
| 29 | Even for old conservatives , though , a return to central planning carries no guarantee of a stress-free future . |
| 30 | Even for those firms that are managing to wash their faces , the return on the capital employed in the markets , itself much more than before Big Bang , is puny . |