Example sentences of "[verb] even a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 2 | These olives — their trunks warped , gouged , carbuncled , abrasive to the touch — seem indestructible , as if they could survive even a nuclear winter . |
| 3 | The costs of employing even a shared nanny , however , should be thoroughly investigated beforehand . |
| 4 | For surely it can never be accepted by any normal thinking person that the bloody battles and massacres that have been necessary to establish even a tentative hold on any part of that unhappy , and anything but ‘ holy ’ , land can possibly represent a successful implementation of that promise . |
| 5 | He showed some nepotistic , or rather patrimonial skill in getting his sons placed in the public service ; his failure to have amassed even a modest competence of wealth may be taken to argue either extreme probity or reckless extravagance , but more likely arose from having over-extended his credit in trying to send supplies to Ireland back in 1642 . |
| 6 | Attempts to provide even a general set of labels for the principal functions of language have resulted in vague , and often confusing , terminology . |
| 7 | America seems critical of just about everything Japanese : its persistent trade surplus , its reluctance to liberalise rice imports , its failure so far to provide even a token force in the Gulf . |
| 8 | A wooden Windsor chair , with a hard cushion , was provided for her when she was allowed to rest , which was n't often , given the quantity of work which keeping even a small house clean necessitated . |
| 9 | This will withstand even a determined attack , as the plastic film will hold even when the glass is cracked . |
| 10 | The only exception to this is where a child is incapable of understanding even a simple explanation of the grounds because it may be too young , or suffer from mental handicap . |
| 11 | It has been argued that it is wrong for such a body to impose even a limited check on the activities of an elected Government . |
| 12 | We take it to extremes and wilfully avoid anything which has even a faint tinge of the ‘ essential ’ viewing of any tourist with cultural pretensions . |
| 13 | To offer an explanation of this view doubtless seemed unnecessary , for it must be obvious to anyone who has even a rudimentary grasp of the exigencies of electoral campaigning . |
| 14 | However , another year I shall not grow even a low line of peas along the south border . |
| 15 | So we see the difficulties of defining even a recent period of earth history , and the protagonists of the varied viewpoints would probably ( if it mattered at all ) argue just as fiercely as stratigraphers over the boundaries . |
| 16 | Whether it will prevent even a single business scandal is another matter . |
| 17 | One criticism which is often levelled at record reviewers is their frequent inability to reach even a mild degree of consensus regarding ‘ best ’ versions . |
| 18 | Looking at the way the international bodies like IEEE and X/Open Co Ltd have failed to define even a basic set of standards due to the competitive nature of the marketplace , AFUU believes an international body of GUI users is what is needed to get some momentum going , a global organisation that can represent user requirements to the GUI providers . |
| 19 | She had never , of course , received even a bare acknowledgement from her husband . |
| 20 | Living Together as Husband and Wife is very concerned about being ‘ fair ’ to the married couple , but the only way they could truly be ‘ fair ’ to the married housewife would be to entitle the single housewife to less SB than she gets … and you can not entitle even a single housewife to less than nothing . |
| 21 | Only then can we give even a sensible guess as to the potential of e-documents and their associate structures and environments . |
| 22 | Ltd. , ( 1988 C.A. ) and , as noted earlier , sufficiently serious defects can render even a second-hand car unmerchantable . |
| 23 | To constitute even a minimum cell of a proportional series , two recurrent one-to-one relations are necessary . |
| 24 | In the December elections , the democrats of Milan and Panic failed to win even a token seat in the Kosovo parliament . |
| 25 | If the hon. Member for Hammersmith ( Mr. Soley ) and his Labour colleagues around the country , who control far more houses than the Government , showed even a tiny percentage of the indignation that he is now attempting to express about empty houses in Swindon in relation to the 5,000 empty houses in Labour-controlled Liverpool , the 2,800 in Labour-controlled Salford , the 2,000 in Labour-controlled Newham , the 5,500 in Labour-controlled Manchester , the 2,000 in Labour-controlled Newcastle , the 1,000 in Labour-controlled Knowsley , and so on — |
| 26 | A part of Harry wanted to agree that it was possible , although it would be a very long while yet before he had enough money to buy even a small farm of his own and start up his own line of thoroughbreds . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a lovely piece , not on the same level as Mozart 's , of course , but it 's certainly instructive to hear even a lesser composer 's point of view ! |
| 28 | They emphasize the importance , both for keeping independence and for helping their descendants , of owning even a small amount of property and passing down specialized occupational skills . |
| 29 | In parts of Punjab they must not spend even a single night in their village . |
| 30 | About one hundred years ago the EMMS directors were given the responsibility of running the Hawthornbrae Trust which currently exists to provide holiday grants to Edinburgh residents who are recovering from illness and who would not otherwise be able to afford even a short holiday break . |