Example sentences of "[adj] that even [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course , from my own professional viewpoint , it is clear that even after a break of so many years , Miss Kenton would prove the perfect solution to the problem at present besetting us at Darlington Hall . |
| 2 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 3 | It is ironic that even in the UK the National Anti-Vivisection Society ( NAVS ) urges us in its literature to look to our own self-interest . |
| 4 | It 's perhaps typical that even with a track as self-consciously silly as ‘ Ebeneezer ’ , there has to be a message . |
| 5 | He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity . |
| 6 | And dispensers full of candles , to be set when lit into iron trolleys — so many that even on a relatively deserted day when I was there , you could hear their crepitation . |
| 7 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 8 | It is apparent that even with the forecast winds used by the crew the flight was undertaken with marginal fuel reserves which were insufficient to take care of possible navigation errors , air traffic control delays , changes of planned altitude or variance in forecast winds . |
| 9 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 10 | Thus Douglas found in the early 1960s that even among the most able , working-class pupils were more likely to leave school early than middle-class pupils with the same IQ scores . |
| 11 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 12 | It was not surprising that even within the upper reaches of the Party discontent began to come into the open , or at least to be expressed clearly behind closed doors at meetings of the Central Committee or Council of Ministers . |
| 13 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 14 | But it is certain that even in the thirteenth century the Viscounts did not forget their Cornish connection . |
| 15 | It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground . |
| 16 | It is true that even by the mid 1870s the total student body was little over 10,000 in a population of 75 million . |