Example sentences of "[verb] even the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | At all levels of church life there is an urgent need for role-models to encourage even the most prejudiced and most embattled to rethink their ways . |
2 | Almost all PCBs are believed to enter the oceans via the atmosphere , enabling even the most remote parts of the globe to become contaminated . |
3 | I would n't trust even the most loving one not to leave when another man offers more . ’ |
4 | So long as the world was politically , and militarily , if not economically , permeated with British influence , school geography could safely and fruitfully explore even the most unlikely regions . |
5 | Be that as it may , the most desperate measures were necessary to provide even the most slender chance of defeating the malevolent hordes . |
6 | It 's designed to protect and soothe even the most sensitive male skins and prices start at £2.45 . |
7 | These memories can pop up at any time and transform even the most mundane occasion into something special . |
8 | You will be reasonably happy with all this ; you overtook even the most intelligent chickens some time ago and moved smoothly into top gear , taking a fluency in English for granted . |
9 | It can lighten even the most leaden of social occasions . |
10 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
11 | Thanks to our twice weekly lessons , Olivia and I had now become confident enough in Hindi for the practice of it to become enjoyable rather than tiresome — if only because people were so surprised to hear any non-Indian speak even the most stumbling version of it . |
12 | The gospel of semi-nudity , cocaine , cross-dressing and thumping , pumping sex-dance marathons attracted even the most conservative types . |
13 | The gospel of semi-nudity , cocaine , cross-dressing and thumping , pumping sex-dance marathons attracted even the most conservative types . |
14 | On the other hand , there are some posts which must tax even the most hard-working individual , such as … |
15 | The shape and structure of the houses project even the most individual activities into the social domain . |
16 | Padlocking steel collars onto the corner legs will help prevent even the most determined thief from moving your caravan . |
17 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
18 | On pricing , the conclusions which could be generally agreed were so flabby and meaningless that they might have made even the most brazen practitioner of newspeak blush . |
19 | In spite of most people perceiving themselves as planners , the survey reveals that in some of the most important and fundamental areas of life they have not made even the most minimal plans . |
20 | But as I quickly discovered , if any real progress is to be made even the most reactionary views need to be listened to and respected . |
21 | The process is difficult , and demands the performance of millions of calculations to reach even the most elementary prediction . |
22 | But no Romanized townships sprang up ; there were no farmstead villas of the type found in southern Britain ; and the sheer cost in fortification , roadworks and supplies required to maintain a presence in such bleak and unrewarding country finally defeated even the most assiduous empire-builders . |
23 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
24 | Laying bare the ugliest , most banal side of life in America , Koons ' work packed an emotional wallop that jarred even the most jaded , and raised unsettling new questions about what art was supposed to be . |
25 | She looked through the drawers of Bob 's desk , curious to explore even the most unconsidered corners of his life . |
26 | One scholar holds that the many " changes and corrections [ to which the statute on schools was subjected ] confirm that the government had no serious intention of promoting even the most elementary primary education among the people " . |
27 | This is readily apparent in closed systems such as caste and racial stratification : the ascribed status of untouchables prevented even the most talented from becoming Brahmins . |
28 | This process prevented even the most distinguished families from establishing the kind of firm territorial base which underpinned the political influence of Western aristocracies . |
29 | They say that student grants , taken together with student loans , can not provide enough to cover even the most basic needs of the poorest members in our society . |
30 | Mr Meacher claimed yesterday that next April the value of those allowances would not be enough to cover even the most conservative forecasts of average poll tax payments . |