Example sentences of "[subord] even [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 2 | By comparison , advertising plays a much less important role in industrial markets , where even the first stage is dominated by personal selling . |
| 3 | It may nevertheless be better than even a reasonable harmonium or American organ . |
| 4 | Indeed , advice work is certainly more complex today than even a few years ago . |
| 5 | But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) When the clothing lasts far longer than even the best quality jeans , and costs no more , how will the agents maintain a business based on clothes bought near enough once in a lifetime ? ( 3 ) Is anyone stupid enough to want to wear heavy-duty , fur-lined , withstands-bloody-cold-arctic-conditions clothing in the summer ? |
| 7 | It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians . |
| 8 | In an ideal world I would have far more bogwood than even the extended budget allows , but I expect this could be remedied over the ensuring months . |
| 9 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 10 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 11 | Although even the best tape cassettes could not outperform the best LPs , they were much more rugged , and did not develop annoying clicks . |
| 12 | Tens of thousands of Dark Elves were butchered until even the hardiest Elf captains ' stomachs were sickened . |
| 13 | If even a radical liberal felt obliged to make such disavowals it may seem paradoxical to suggest that what was being discussed was , in fact , democracy . |
| 14 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 15 | The great hope of eradicating malaria has faded : new battles must be fought and new weapons devised if even the present level of control is to be maintained . |
| 16 | But , beware , because even a cursory flip through will leave thumps in throat at the thought of so much majestic machinery now turned into razor blades . |
| 17 | Firstly , it was not simply a question of poor front-end processing because even a substantial improvement in the front-end performance would have had little effect on reducing the problem . |
| 18 | He was probably sent there to take a look at some local biochemical machines because even a quick glance would be very revealing to an expert , and Ralph Pike is an expert . |
| 19 | COMPUTER users , both professional and amateur , dread power cuts because even a short interruption can lose all the data in the machine 's memory . |
| 20 | Because even the smallest feldspar grains luminesce brightly , a far more accurate estimate of the percentage of feldspar in a clastic sediment is obtained by point-counting under CL . |
| 21 | Women with a family history of allergies are always advised to breastfeed because even the modified milk in infant formula can provoke an allergic reaction . |
| 22 | They are good with tourists , because even the young ones can get by in English and French . |
| 23 | Ruth lay on her back and tried not to move , because even the slightest movement was torment , but when the spasms of pain stabbed her it was hard to keep still . |
| 24 | We realised straight away that the Landrover was a good choice of vehicle because even the main roads were pretty rough , and we intended spending most of our time in the north of the island where road and track conditions promised to be even worse . |
| 25 | And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 ) |
| 26 | Depth is half the game in lock-picking ; the other half is getting enough leverage for the turn , since even a proper pick has no shaft going right through to rest on the end ward like a real key . |
| 27 | She had let the fire go out since even the soft fall of ash , the spit of a sudden irritable flame , the shifting of branches in the course of their own attrition filled her ears with restless noise and muffled what might be sounding outside : the soft tread of something moving closer , the susurration of something being unsheathed , the breath of someone hissing through his teeth . |
| 28 | By 1910 the equivalent unit in the Russian foreign ministry was scrutinising more than 150 Russian and foreign newspapers , while even the Ottoman empire had equipped its foreign ministry as early as 1869 with a rudimentary press office whose duties included monitoring the foreign-language papers published on Turkish soil . |
| 29 | While even the richest states are anxious to attract or retain TNC investment , they are more likely to be successful in imposing conditions on their operations than less developed states . |
| 30 | The Tory party was more loosely structured : there were tensions between the Highflyers and the more moderate wing that emerged under Anne , and which came to be led by Robert Harley , whilst even the High Church chieftains — the Earl of Rochester , the Earl of Nottingham , and Sir Edward Seymour — worked much less closely together than the Whig Junto . |