Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] even [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament , he said , had been careful to avoid even the appearance of countenancing such a doctrine . |
| 2 | It is known that the sea is cruel , but it is also humourless , so few laughs are prompted by this book and after some glum pages it is easy to crave even the schoolboy humour of Stephen Leacock 's skit , Soaked in Seaweed . |
| 3 | In the not-too-distant past the attitude of physicians was very much to avoid even the suggestion of hypoglycaemic reactions at any time , and always to keep a little glucose in the urine , especially at bedtime . |
| 4 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 5 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 6 | But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal . |
| 7 | They all stood in the rapidly darkening garden , most of them glad to have even the illusion of activity to take their minds off the unchanging situation . |
| 8 | It would be smooth sailing , if one could determine the course of one 's actions only by one general principle whose application at a given moment was too obvious to need even a moment 's reflection . |
| 9 | Feeling pleased for them , I lowered the binoculars through which I 'd been able to see even the tears on Mrs Unwin 's cheeks , and there below me and in front of the grandstand was the man with the gaunt face looking up towards the Clubhouse windows . |
| 10 | Desperately he clung to it unable to bear even the thought of the nothingness again , and felt Fox 's fury lash against him . |
| 11 | ‘ — but if Ross had n't twisted Owen 's arm and made him take the money we would n't have been able to afford even a shoe-box . |
| 12 | Some of them would make their way to the railway station , but a few , having no horse and trap and unable to afford even the train fare , would travel on foot the whole week , often sleeping rough in the fields or in barns or farmhouses . |
| 13 | It would be unwise to allow even the possibility of criticism on a matter as important as adjudication . |
| 14 | Much would clearly depend on the availability of resources , as some RACs stated that they had insufficient to meet even the targets for induction contained in Circular 11/77 while others indicated that all the targets would be met with existing resources . |
| 15 | Unable at first to afford even a bed , she slept behind the shop on a sack filled with paper straw from the empty sweet boxes . |
| 16 | He was finding it difficult to extract even the names of the people who had been on the dahabeeyah . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that the Mexican government spends almost 25 per cent of its budget on education , a high proportion of the population is still relatively poor , semi-literate and ill-equipped to grasp even the fundamentals of the legal system , let alone to take it on in what would appear to be a very one-sided battle against the establishment and its administration . |
| 18 | She , 17 years his senior , was ebullient , romantic and far too impatient to spend even a minute searching for the perfect phrase when a cliché would do . |
| 19 | Service industries are now in a worse predicament than ever , because it is no longer possible to register even a business name in Britain . |