Example sentences of "[to-vb] even the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |
| 2 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 3 | The fact was that , since the ancient and mysterious spell had squatted in his mind , he had been unable to remember even the simplest cantrap for , say , killing cockroaches or scratching the small of his back without using his hands . |
| 4 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |
| 5 | She did n't want to explain that she had been too nervous to go in the kitchen and cook it , too lily-livered to turn her back to the window as she lit the gas , too timorous to cause even the tiny sounds of roasting game . |
| 6 | There are no charts or diagrams to help even the experienced reader to follow the argument , nor references , and only the occasional illustration of a skull . |
| 7 | The dark outline of the forest was enough to discourage even the boldest mutineer . |
| 8 | But the warnings of Lord Brightman seem to have been made more to discourage even the modest number of applications than to respond to excessive use . |
| 9 | Like most firms selling arms to Argentina , it refuses to discuss even the commercial aspects involved . |
| 10 | The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking . |
| 11 | Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants ; MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts . |
| 12 | Indeed , with what he callls its ‘ huge range of expression ’ as well as its power to fill even the largest concert hall , Hardenberger feels that the trumpet is a particularly valuable instrument for the contemporary composer . |
| 13 | They may become apathetic , unable to do even the simplest task . |
| 14 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 15 | You can be perfectly well with HIV and at other times chronic debility makes it hard to do even the basic things . |
| 16 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 17 | Often , this attitude had left him physically the worse for wear , but not mentally , for he managed to give even the vicious beatings a meaning by analysing his reactions and those of the guards without pride , certainly with no feeling of humiliation , nor indeed with bitterness . |
| 18 | Those parts of the Bill are vehicles for British Rail to do work that is publicly demanded but which it resolutely refuses to give even the slightest hint that it contemplates . |
| 19 | He was slow to use even the basic idea of evolution in his paleontological work , and did so only in the mid 1860s after reading the work of the German evolutionist Ernst Haeckel . |
| 20 | To understand even the simplest text , we need many different kinds of knowledge . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm simply telling you how it was just in case you 've forgotten — alcohol has a rather mind-numbing effect and after all you would n't want to forget even the tiniest part of so wonderful an evening , would you ? ’ |
| 22 | Networking out through the families and friends of Libyans he knew , talking to people in their homes , in coffee shops , in the markets and on the streets , Coleman met no one prepared to acknowledge even the smallest justification for the American action . |
| 23 | The Prince is rather easier to keep tabs on , but there is always the unforeseen to disrupt even the best-laid plans . |
| 24 | You 'll be spoilt for choice at Beaverbrooks who , along with wedding rings , offer the widest selection of gold jewellery to delight even the tiniest bridesmaids . |
| 25 | Insecticides can now be used with a considerable degree of precision to control even the worst attacks of most pests . |
| 26 | It still tried me out now and again , though , and I was in no mood to allow even the slightest encroachment on my territory . |
| 27 | To save even the meanest man or woman alive I 'd get rid of the whole Sistine Chapel ! |
| 28 | The Infinity Drive exerted exactly equal stress — which was to say almost none — on all parts of the contained structure , and a ship like the Simonova was never likely to be required to approach even the outer atmosphere of a planet , far less to land . |
| 29 | It has to be said that the plays are somewhat thin in material , and the characterisation weak , but they were both offended by the offhand refusal and the Corporation 's unwillingness to offer even the slightest guidance for the betterment of the projects . |
| 30 | Despite disclaimers which recommended submission to great works , the professional study of English came to transcend even the literary masterpieces themselves by virtue of its capacity to offer a complete and final assessment and achieve the kind of complete historical understanding unavailable to the historical actors themselves . |