Example sentences of "[adj] even [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money was demanded by the state from the citizen and the inequalities of the parties ' respective positions is manifest even in the case of a major financial institution like Woolwich . |
| 2 | She was trembling uncontrollably beneath him as he levered her knees wide to accommodate his strength , his shaft probing the tight , delicate sweetness of her , the glitter of triumph in his eyes unmistakable even in the half-light in the bedroom . |
| 3 | The scale on which Pound was working was not clear even to the poet himself ; so that the eleven cantos which he originally designated as ‘ preparation of the palette ’ are now by responsible commentators considerably extended — to the extent that the first thirty cantos , which are all that the twenties knew of the poem ( A Draft of XVI Cantos ( Paris , June 1925 ) ; A Draft often Cantos 17–27 ( 100 copies , September 1928 ) ; and A Draft of XXX Cantos ( 210 copies , August 1930 ) ) , are now often regarded as laying out no the painter 's palette the hues that only in subsequent cantos would be combined to polemical and imaginative purpose . |
| 4 | In consequence the wealth of research contained in the bibliographies I have mentioned often fails to follow through the deep structures of police culture or establish the ways in which the culture is self-sustaining even in the face of calls for social change . |
| 5 | There was no sign of being unprepared in his typically confident singing , audible even at the end of Act One . |
| 6 | AN ANIMAL SOUND , like a bull in tumescence , was intruding in the helmet , a yowling , roaring noise , audible even above the roar of the engine behind my shoulders and the rush of wind which was buffeting them . |
| 7 | Then he fiddled with the controls until he had produced a clear sound that was audible even over the wind . |
| 8 | I find it a sad small dramatic irony that Leslie never knew what I did at Bletchley , and , naturally , was unaware even of the existence of Ultra , let alone its significance in his own military enterprises . |
| 9 | When he started boxing with both paws it was too much even for the basset . |
| 10 | This last award was too much even for the Court of Appeal ( which has an aversion to interfering with jury awards ) to countenance . |
| 11 | Maybe it did n't matter all that much even to the daughter . |
| 12 | That area was dark and gloomy even in the daytime , with doors leading to permanently locked rooms , padlocked cupboards and deep curtained alcoves . |
| 13 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
| 14 | Bright muzzle flashes were visible even through the murk . |
| 15 | Reminders of this are visible even in the decor of the red-light quarter . |
| 16 | And at this stage , the relationship of the horseshoe crab with the trilobites becomes evident , for in these little immature creatures which have not yet developed the all-enclosing armour of the adults , the segments are clearly visible even from the top . |
| 17 | Changes of character brought about by the fluctuation of material conditions were so marked that they were noticeable even at the time from within the camp . |
| 18 | I began to be conscious even of the kidney shape . |
| 19 | Some rather fundamental reform of the international monetary system would have been inevitable even without the deterioration in the US balance of payments at the end of the 1960s . |
| 20 | Actually I like my showers cold even in the morning . |
| 21 | But er according to my mother 's great joy , she got seasick even on the landing stage in in Liverpool and never came out of her cabin , so she had a big time as a young women running around the ship . |
| 22 | Every sceptical argument against the possibility of justified belief is an argument of the strongest form , and leaves us devoid even of the understanding we thought we had of our own language . |
| 23 | The marriage of Louis-Napoleon to Eugénie de Montijo undoubtedly stoked up the fires of her discontent , but the hearth was comfortably alight even before the marriage . |
| 24 | For there really is something a little odd surrealist even in the idea of a folding-leaf Dining ( Bird ) Table , where the flaps are made to beat up and down like the wings of a bird . |
| 25 | The sound is acceptable enough ; but I do wish that companies which release older recordings like this would spend just a little more ( what would it cost ? ) to accompany them with notes worthy even of the music as slight as this . |
| 26 | What A View of the Present State of Ireland saves its worst condemnation for is those Old English who had ‘ degenerated ’ and gone native even to the point of abandoning their original names and taking Gaelic ones . |
| 27 | The effect was nunlike even to the headscarf which she wore indoors and out , like a wimple . |
| 28 | The issue was recognized by many even before the war was concluded . |
| 29 | Descartes refused to be sure even of the reality of the external universe until he had proved a priori to his own satisfaction that he was not dreaming it . |
| 30 | It was clear that the light from this side was better even without the addition of huge windows in the roof . |