Example sentences of "[vb mod] not even be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Moscovici , so great is the qualitative difference that the widespread beliefs of modern society should not even be called ‘ common sense ’ : ‘ In societies like ours , there are no longer myths , nor even ‘ common sense ’ , in the correct meaning of these terms ' ( Moscovici , 1984 : 953 ) . |
| 2 | However , such a calculation should not even be attempted if the consequence is failure to complete the easier parts of the question . |
| 3 | A Member who has not yet made his maiden speech should not even be mentioned , far less attacked in the way that the hon. Gentleman is cynically going about it . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the sort of tournament that should not even be considered as a Ryder Cup qualifier . |
| 5 | More significantly , if questions may not even be asked in open court about illegal tapping , how is the victim to find out about it in order to bring it to the attention of the police ? |
| 6 | A further group of works and not even the relevant authorities know how many , except that it runs into hundreds of thousands are ‘ notified ’ ; that is , they may not even be lent , restored or sold within Italy , let alone exported , without the permission of the authorities . |
| 7 | If the suspect 's lawyer is not present , his statement may not even be documented , let alone used in later proceedings . |
| 8 | Similarly , a blouse which is purchased from a shop as an alienable commodity may then become so intimately associated with a particular individual that it may not even be borrowed by a sibling , After some time , however , the object may lose this close association , becoming , as jumble , an alienable commodity once again . |
| 9 | So He made a tiny egg , so small that it could not even be seen , and a little room , on purpose for it to grow in , right inside the mother 's body . |
| 10 | By this time , my temperature and blood pressure was so high I could not even be given a proper anaesthetic . |
| 11 | We created works of art that could not even be imagined by lesser races ; we pushed our bodies even further and devised whole new theories and systems to improve our way of life . |
| 12 | However , there were even more terrible signs of this supposedly new streak of violent irritability to be found among the youth of working-class neighbourhoods , which could not even be justified on the grounds of over-enthusiastic jingo patriotism . |
| 13 | In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought . |
| 14 | Yolande , his queen , who could not even be bothered to inspect her dead husband 's corpse but keeps herself closeted at Kinghorn , claiming she is pregnant ? |
| 15 | It seemed very hard that she should have had to uproot herself completely while her husband could not even be bothered to accompany her on holidays to her own country . |
| 16 | I could not even be considered . |
| 17 | 'You , if anyone , can understand , ’ she replied , and agreed that work could not even be thought of . |
| 18 | Despite conciliatory moves by Thakin Nu , and earnest pleas from Listowel , the Karens could not even be brought to agree among themselves . |
| 19 | And Laidlaw was an outsider , an outsider who could n't even be relied upon to fire a gun in a crisis . |
| 20 | What she had now with Adam could n't even be called a relationship , she acknowledged ruefully . |
| 21 | In so doing , we would discover who was the most helpful MP , who was the rudest , and who could n't even be bothered to reply . |
| 22 | I could n't even be bothered to look where I was going . |
| 23 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 24 | Wide Awake could n't even be bothered to find out what was going on before penning their vitriolic little missive . |
| 25 | Once you were Wigg 's enemy — and this was a judgement reached by him and not by the other person — there was no pursuit and no hostility that he would abandon ; but I remained an affectionate friend because of the other side of his character , which would not even be suspected by those with whom he was in controversy . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , a plan to enlarge the main Prado building has unleashed a passionate controversy — not least because the suggested extension would not even be used for the permanent display of works of art . |
| 27 | An accident may happen — such as when a sufferer form alcoholism takes a sip of a drink that he or she was not aware contained alcohol — and this would not even be termed as a sip . |
| 28 | If my proposal was accepted , legislation would not even be needed . |
| 29 | Although all but one HIV test were negative such low active follow-up in any other study would be such that it would not even be considered for publication . |
| 30 | Anyway , he would n't even be arrested not by any constable in Oxfordshire . ’ |