Example sentences of "even [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even using the same terms on more than one occasion with the same customer would seem not to amount of itself to trading on standard terms . |
| 2 | They reckon that if erm Australia lose another match it could mean that they wo n't even make the semi finals and erm they reckon like that , that channel nine that 's supposed to be backing all this |
| 3 | ‘ And besides , ’ Anna put in , ‘ considering that Sam 's idea of exercise is moving from one chair to another , he probably would n't even make the bosky glades ! ’ |
| 4 | After reflection , you can select the best version or even combine the best elements from two or more versions . |
| 5 | This may well be the most effective answer to the problem of low-interest categories , and it is perhaps surprising that so few library authorities operate circulating collections — even given the administrative problems involved . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , even given the increasing constraints imposed by the centre upon local authorities ( see Chapter 10 ) it is still important to recognize that the centre only narrows the scope of decision-making — it does not determine it . |
| 7 | He even disquieted the hardened revolutionaries he moved among , most notably old Bakunin . |
| 8 | Extraordinarily , the Queen 's Speech does not even include the usual platitudes , promising , in the words of last year 's speech ; that the Government would ’ vigorously pursue their policies in fighting crime . ’ |
| 9 | Some medieval historians have even depicted the Saxon invaders as coming in to a completely unpopulated landscape . |
| 10 | It 's dark enough onstage to hide myriad gloomy sins ; dark enough even to hide the receding hairlines and sweaty T-shirts of ageing college boy rock . |
| 11 | Dad had always been fanatical about security at night ; he even bolted the inside doors . |
| 12 | Admittedly , it will be difficult to unscramble the present system , but it is not yet too late to extend VAT and other forms of sales taxes to relieve and even eliminate the direct pressures on the country 's earners . |
| 13 | Not that I wanted to play chess nor even to frighten the good citizens of Budapest with a glimpse of my bare cadaver — my bathing trunks now also fell off me — but rather that the idea of a character — perhaps fleeing from something or someone — standing in those steaming baths moving queens and pawns , fitted perfectly into the outline I had . |
| 14 | In general even if it can be shown that one particular dichotic testing procedure can lead to an accurate prediction of the side of speech representation it does not logically follow that other procedures are equally valid or even tap the same processes . |
| 15 | Had they even penetrated the licensed taxicabs of London ? |
| 16 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 17 | When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’ |
| 18 | ( His parents had never even noticed the faint scratches . |
| 19 | Manceville had designed it himself as a great Gothic palace and even incorporated the specially-built ruins of an abbey into one wing . |
| 20 | Charles was too concerned with Jacqui even to yell the usual obscenities at the Swede . |
| 21 | things to do when you ca n't even do the old things as well as you want to and as well as you should be doing ? |
| 22 | I see from my Logbook that Geilenkirchen , Abbeville , Hirson , Hannover and Hamm amongst others appear as targets but I was never convinced that we either found , damaged , or even delayed the German masses ' progress through the Low Countries . |
| 23 | The hard-top even uses the same mechanisms and can be attached or removed in a similar time . |
| 24 | To jump too quickly on the problems raised early in the counselling process may even prevent the real reasons coming to the surface . |
| 25 | Even adding the eight writs , his reign is the least well-represented of any between those of Æthelstan and Edward the Confessor , and seven of the documents we have are fairly definitely later forgeries , while nearly half the rest are suspect . |
| 26 | The children cheered and the Rector even forgot the after effects of goose and pudding on his digestion to smile gravely and agreed to join in . |
| 27 | The police , for reasons of economy of control rather than from partiality , accepted , tolerated , even encouraged the solemn formalities of stateless justice ; the Zuwaya equally did not reject due process of courts and judgements : these were not exclusive . |
| 28 | Some of us even enjoy the political battles , provided we win a few . |
| 29 | The employment of able servants , particularly in the Treasury , entailed recurrent attempts to conciliate what was usable of the reformist tradition and even to appease the purged remnants of liberalism . |
| 30 | His first major costing exercise suggested that domestic consumers not only failed to meet costs on peak loads but , in all except one Area Board ( where the data may have been biased ) , failed even to cover the average costs of supplying them . |