Example sentences of "[noun] even at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Parish Council even at that stage was not fully aware of the situation . |
2 | The street below was quiet , little traffic braving the snow and ice even at this time of day — but then Mayfair really only came alive at night , when the various hostesses entertained . |
3 | There had been an aura of menace about the boy even at that age , and Tom had often pondered his real reason for not reporting the incident to the police . |
4 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
5 | His father was a very nuggety type , and would work all day even at ten years old , ’ Robert said . |
6 | With no airbrake the glider will float some distance even at low speed , and it must still be held off for a proper touchdown . |
7 | He named a couple of branches in particular that were ‘ snobbish ’ and would keep their distance even at communal events such as Balis , organized by the whole district . |
8 | And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away . |
9 | I should have water for some hours yet , but I did n't know how long I 'd be ashore , and as the shingle here seemed fairly hard I reckoned I could get the rubber dinghy to the water even at low tide . |
10 | By the creek , the main force of the islands ' fighters was gathered for the simultaneous assault on Belmont , which was shaking the ground even at this range , like the bass drum of a ceremonial band . |
11 | It was an unlikely theory even at first sight . |
12 | For a moment she wanted to rebel , to pull back from the brink even at this stage of the game . |
13 | Males have a blue face , especially on the cheeks , while females do not , and the presence or absence of iridescent blue on the lips is a sure way of separating males from females even at small sizes ( say 1.5″ S.L. ) |
14 | The champions of optimum treatment irrespective of age point to the surprising number of years of expected life even at advanced ages ( for example , about 5 years for a healthy 87-year-old American woman ) and to moral entitlements accrued over years of work , tax paying , family rearing , and possibly military service . |
15 | Exceptionally , if a Bill is extremely controversial , the opposition may fight it tooth and nail even at this stage . |
16 | Modigliani must have sensed the originality in the young boy 's personality even at that age ; perhaps he saw something of himself as a youth . |
17 | An excess of gain even at low settings ( ie. from an active bass with powerful pickups ) can be compensated for with the lower of the two white switches , which operates a 15dB attenuation ‘ pad ’ to clean up the signal . |
18 | The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times . |
19 | This creates a thin surface layer with relatively low thermal heat capacity which allows very rapid summer heating even at subpolar latitudes . |
20 | Nevertheless , the real value of land is constant ; and capital invested in it will not deteriorate with inflation ; in the long term the purchase of a smallholding even at inflated prices , can make sense if the buyer can hold back enough to put it in order , and stock and equip it . |
21 | It is a gum and in water produces a very viscous solution even at low concentrations . |
22 | The same chapter in Chronic Diseases highlights this thus ‘ In taking one and the same medicine repeatedly ( which is indispensable to secure the cure of a serious chronic disease ) , if the dose is in every case varied and modified only a little in its degree of dynamization , then the vital force of the patient will calmly , and as it were willingly receive the same medicine even at brief intervals very many times in succession with the best results , every time increasing the well-being of the patient . ’ |