Example sentences of "[adj] even [prep] [art] [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 Unmistakable even to a layman .
3 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 .
4 To think about this even for a moment is to see that something is amiss .
5 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 .
6 As we came round on Wigmore one more time , it was clear even from a distance that the situation had flared up drastically .
7 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 .
8 Only 17 per cent felt he was acceptable even as a co-representative .
9 There was no sign of being unprepared in his typically confident singing , audible even at the end of Act One .
10 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 .
11 Then he fiddled with the controls until he had produced a clear sound that was audible even over the wind .
12 No — surely they 'd never commit something so dangerous even to a Company Spiderline .
13 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 .
14 When he started boxing with both paws it was too much even for the basset .
15 This last award was too much even for the Court of Appeal ( which has an aversion to interfering with jury awards ) to countenance .
16 Maybe it did n't matter all that much even to the daughter .
17 That area was dark and gloomy even in the daytime , with doors leading to permanently locked rooms , padlocked cupboards and deep curtained alcoves .
18 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 .
19 Bright muzzle flashes were visible even through the murk .
20 Reminders of this are visible even in the decor of the red-light quarter .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 New east-west fold mountains immediately began to be destroyed again , producing mountains of conglomerate such as the fantastic shapes of Montserrat , near Barcelona ( plate 8.1 ) which is remarkable even in a country of conglomerates like Spain .
24 In Cyrenaica , then , the social and economic pattern was agricultural , and to a degree which was thought remarkable even in a world not familiar with alternatives to agricultural economies ( p. 13 ) .
25 I began to be conscious even of the kidney shape .
26 Although I ca n't actually recall being prepared for it by my mother , it was only too obvious even to a child of seven years that something was pretty seriously wrong .
27 The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating .
28 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 .
29 Actually I like my showers cold even in the morning .
30 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 .
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