Example sentences of "[subord] even the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Almost two years elapsed before even the initial visit was made , making the applicant think that her application had been turned down . |
| 8 | These men were , largely , in a class apart , for even the English knight could be a man of importance in the county society in which he mixed . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly , realization of ( o ) is much more variable than this very idealized representation implies , although ( as even the small amount of data in table 6.4 suggests ) it is certainly constrained by the factors specified . |
| 10 | We might perhaps hope that one species lingered on , like the brachiopod Lingla , in some inaccessible part of the sea , but as even the deep sea faunas become well-known this possibility is fading . |
| 11 | Now that inflation and interest rates are coming down , the economy is moving into an upturn and prospects are getting better , as even the Labour party 's former adviser has agreed and written repeatedly in the newspapers . |
| 12 | If one believes the prediction of the inflationary cosmology , that the total density of the Universe must be very close to the critical value above which it recollapses , then there must also be unclustered dark matter as even the dark matter in galaxies and clusters has too small a density to account for this . |
| 13 | Analysis to this level was not undertaken for all sub-systems , only those where some significant change was implied , as even the secondary expansion was extensive and time-consuming . |
| 14 | I have so far dealt only with what might be considered extraneous matters which are of little concern to the non-collector , who can read and enjoy a book without worrying about endpapers , half-titles , advertisements and the rest ; though even the ordinary reader must reach a point where bibliographical matters begin to impinge . |
| 15 | The over-running and Anglicising of the Highlands after Culloden , when even the traditional form of dress was banned , would soon lead to assimilation , and even though ‘ the inhabitants of mountains form distinct races , and are careful to preserve their genealogies ’ , Johnson concludes without emotion that ‘ while their rocks seclude them from the rest of mankind , and kept them an unaltered and distinctive race … they are now losing their distinction , and hastening to mingle with the general community . ’ |