Example sentences of "even [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong even goes as far as asking ‘ is it not conceivable that the whole of syntax and semantics should have been innate so that all mankind spoke the one , wired-in , nonconventional language ? ’ ( 1971 : 437 ) . |
| 2 | Lastly , the United Nations Convention of 1986 on Conditions for the Registration of Ships , which no member state has yet signed , even goes as far as expressly to confer on states party thereto the right to choose between the criterion of the nationality of the owner and the criterion of the nationality or place of residence of the crew ( see articles 7 , 8 and 9 , and Annex I to the Commission 's written observations in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) . |
| 3 | John even goes as far as to boast that The Borrowers is breaking new ground : ‘ In fact , some of the things we can now do make the special effects in Star Wars look prehistoric . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 5 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 6 | She even goes so far as to say her grandmother does the warm-up exercises , using tins of soup instead of weights , though her husband Richard Gere sticks to Tai Chi and riding his bike . |
| 7 | He even goes so far as to fabricate his signature in a way similar to Pound 's , so that it forms a kind of hieroglyph . |
| 8 | Cusick even goes so far as to venture an empathy between the teams Verity Lambert assembled to work on the series . |
| 9 | In the fourteenth century it even penetrated as far as Prague and Krakow . |
| 10 | In the centre and west , in Croatia and Slovenia , the military frontier held , but throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these areas were the victims of frequent raids by marauding bands of Turks , who even penetrated as far as Graz . |
| 11 | We have a different role , but nevertheless and even , an important one is perhaps in even looking further ahead than the Emergency Planning and therefore I would support er in being brief I would support very much erm Mr 's er motion if you can call it a motion which has been seconded and I hope that other members will will agree that erm we can pass this on to the Chief Executive who obviously will be doing this in any case , but it would give er a a an added er measure if you like er I 'm talking in terms of member involvement in pressing for er a wider look of what has happened after this sad flood has been dealt with . |
| 12 | We even sailed as far as Singapore . |
| 13 | it comes to a point sometimes , I mean I even noticed then like when they 're wearing all your clothes right ? |
| 14 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 15 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 16 | But we can not be certain that Gould even got as far as the river at all . |
| 17 | But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one . |
| 18 | ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed . |
| 19 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 20 | Again the immigration people questioned him about his occupation , even going so far as to check the word antiquarian in an English-Spanish dictionary . |
| 21 | Anyway , Great-Aunt Jane shared everyone 's low opinion of John Bell for a time , even going as far as to declare that he was n't right in his head . |
| 22 | As his armies grew in number and strength Grom ventured further and further west , devastating much of Stirland , Talabecland and even going as far as Hochland in the shadow of the Middle Mountains . |
| 23 | In the event , however , Labour actually suffered a swing against it compared with 1986 , lost a net total of 20 seats and , in some boroughs , even performed less well than at the 1987 general election . |
| 24 | I ca n't cook or clean because you all do that , I do n't even sew very well because you do it better , I ca n't play or draw , not really — ’ |
| 25 | I mean they need to have consolid I mean they need to consolidate their own party before they can even go out there and try to direct the masses . |
| 26 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 27 | We 'd even go so far as throwing modesty to the wind , and say you wo n't find better value for money holidays or flights anywhere else . |
| 28 | I 'd even go so far as to say I 'm falling in love . |
| 29 | Indeed , one might even go so far as to say that , were it not for the ‘ discovery ’ of Siberia 's seemingly inexhaustible resources of ‘ soft gold ’ , that is , an abundance of fur-bearing mammals — in particular the highly-prized sable — the Muscovite government would have been without the economic foundation for the growth of its political power . |
| 30 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |