Example sentences of "even [conj] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is worth trying , even if only in a very small quantity .
2 Being useful , even if only in a small way , was a marvellous booster of confidence .
3 Normally she would have found the tall blond rock star attractive , even if only in a detached , academic sort of way .
4 Hinrich Medau evolved a simple method of teaching piano improvisation so that even students who have never played the piano before and have no previous knowledge of music almost all learn to play well for movement , even if only in a very simple way .
5 He allowed himself , or claimed to allow himself , no beliefs about the world which could n't be justified if , if , even if only in a very loose sense , by scientific canons of procedure .
6 Luxury firms can sell their wares at high prices only by keeping them ‘ exclusive ’ , even if only in the minds of shop-till-you-drop status-seekers .
7 Although children can be attached to more than one person from a very early age , there is usually one parent who is special — even if only in the sense that their presence can be taken for granted .
8 Even as early in the ministerial crisis as that Sunday morning , the King needed no prompting on what his course should be .
9 ‘ World Shut Your Mouth ’ seems impossibly majestic and you realise that , even when seemingly in the wilderness , this guy could still chop out cool tunes .
10 This issue ( together with the long-running territorial dispute over the disputed Senkaku islands ) soured relations somewhat with China towards the end of 1990 , even though earlier in the year Japan had been in the forefront of those countries arguing for a resumption of the aid to China which had been suspended after the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 .
11 Moodie led from the start and never looked like being caught even though late in the race Joey Dunlop put in a spurt and was in second place with one lap to go .
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