Example sentences of "even in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dark in the wooden chapel even in the early evening ; the candles on the plain , linen-covered altar guttered faintly in the draught before the door was closed , and after its closing there was an astonishing silence , all the sounds of the activity without banished to infinite distance . |
| 2 | Even in the best run schools there are times when children , staff , parents and neighbours do n't receive the quality of service that they feel they deserve . |
| 3 | ( 4 ) Many tenants object to forfeiture provisions applying where distress or execution has been levied on its goods at the premises , as even in the best run organisations this sometimes occurs and it is not always an indication that the tenant is in financial difficulty . |
| 4 | Its implications for the war they were fighting were profoundly unsettling : even in the best case — from their perspective , " francisation " — they would still be in the position of fighting against an independence movement in the name of self-determination . |
| 5 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 6 | Miriam : Even in the polygamous setting each wife had a strong position . |
| 7 | Actually , it is in relation to land and suburbanization that this statement is least true , even in the depressed North East . |
| 8 | It had been singularly successful in achieving a synthesis of local and cosmopolitan , rural and urban , into a religious culture of remarkable vitality and tenacity , even in the seventh century . |
| 9 | Even in the at-ease position Felix seemed to be jogging on the spot . |
| 10 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 11 | It is doubtful if , even in the nineteenth century , the power of the British literary mind over the earth has ever been greater than in the late twentieth century . |
| 12 | But even in the nineteenth century , the drawing-room ballads and theatre tunes ‘ of the bourgeoisie ’ were heard and reproduced by many workers , just as ‘ art ’ music was regaled to them by brass bands and in promenade concerts ; while ownership of ‘ folk ’ songs would be a matter of dispute between ‘ peasants ’ , industrial workers , petty bourgeois writers and artisans , and patrician collectors . |
| 13 | Even in the nineteenth century the total revenue raised from parents in industrial schools only amounted to between 2.5 and 5 per cent of expenditure , while in the period 1948–69 the parental share of the costs of children in care amounted only to between 4 per cent and 6.5 per cent . |
| 14 | Mother churches tended to guard their privileges jealously and even in the nineteenth century some daughter churches and chapels were still dependent in some respects on the more ancient or more important mother church . |
| 15 | Even in the volcanic heat , they were dead cool . |
| 16 | Even in the rare instance that salmonella is found in an egg , a phenomenon known since at least 1913 , numbers detected are low ; usually fewer than 10 organisms . |
| 17 | Even in the poor light of the flickering torches , Corbett could see how white and haggard her face had become . |
| 18 | Far from having reached the sunny uplands of history , as some have claimed , therefore , human beings will perhaps have to face , even in the present generation , new trials on a bleak and inhospitable mountainside . |
| 19 | It is noteworthy that , even in the present case , where every effort has been made to accelerate matters , the generous time-limit given by the notice has in fact already been exceeded . |
| 20 | Even in the present day when a wife may own part of the matrimonial home and may have a separate job , Scott LJ felt that the tendency was for business decisions to be left to the husband and the main domestic responsibilities to the wife . |
| 21 | However , even in the present stage of battery technology and without recourse to any of the many new battery types under test at present it is estimated that due to the preponderance of short trips ( this is in an industrialised country equivalent in size to the UK ) 70% of present fuel consumption in cars could be substituted by use of battery vehicles . |
| 22 | A great deal could be done , even in the present climate of opinion , and example counts for a great deal . |
| 23 | In the ancient world , during the Middle Ages and Renaissance , even in the twentieth century , the word ‘ city ’ was frequently associated with wealth , success , culture , and opportunity . |
| 24 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 25 | During the late nineteenth century some of the more manipulable aspects of the judicial system were abandoned , but even in the twentieth century the courts generated little moral authority . |
| 26 | Berlin was always more densely textured than other European capitals , with industry , offices and homes jumbled up together even in the inner city , and , in spite of being a free-market island in a sea of socialism , west Berlin was the country 's biggest industrial centre . |
| 27 | The Raffertys of this world , even in the changing climate of 1945 , Harriet reflected , still seemed to think it was their duty to ensure that others , rather than themselves , had a little relaxation . |
| 28 | We had proved in a recent elections and even in the general election , that where the pensioners ' movement was strong , the election results were more positive for candidates in support of our aims . |
| 29 | In winter it 's a wildlife haven ; even in the harshest weather it affords a rarely failing food source . |
| 30 | In none of them , even in the young woman who was almost her age and who had a baby Peter had just christened , could she confide . |