Example sentences of "even a [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a simple surprise attack takes practice . |
| 2 | The front badge , much loved by car thieves , costs £70 and even a simple radiator cap , basically the same as a Fiat 's , cost £18 . |
| 3 | Furthermore it is possible for a high degree polynomial to be only slightly better than a low degree one ( even a straight line fit ) , whereas the higher degree fit will certainly require much more effort . |
| 4 | To lessen the distance between , say , the refrigerator and the sink , you could add an island unit to the centre of the room , or a free-standing butcher-block work surface , or even a mobile work trolley . |
| 5 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 6 | It is not fair to have a dog if you are unable to take it for walks — even a small lap dog . |
| 7 | A century ago Baldersdale had a population numbering several hundred and supported a blacksmith , two pubs and even a small flour mill . |
| 8 | With the intense pressure inside ( 20 tonnes of water flow through every second ) , even a small hairline crack could develop into a rupture , with catastrophic consequences . |
| 9 | Fire up the 1.4 after any 1.6 , even a well run-in example , and it 's immediately plain that the smaller capacity , carburetted CVH is smoother and quieter , with noise , vibration and harshness levels that at least border on the acceptable . |
| 10 | We wo n't be printing names ; this is not going to be a dealer persecution service , nor even a personal arbitration service such as Which ? magazine 's ‘ Personal Service ’ , because we simply can not become involved on that level . |
| 11 | Mark could n't have got something ‘ better ’ , like a Knightsbridge or South Kensington church , or even a good country living . |
| 12 | Himself a minister from 1964 and an advocate of devaluation , Jenkins contends that " if they [ Wilson and Callaghan ] could get American support for what they wanted to do anyway this could be regarded as serving a British interest and , from the point of view of the 1966 election , even a Labour Party interest " . |
| 13 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |
| 14 | But not even a full-time repair unit could keep up with the constant breaching of the fencing . |
| 15 | Even a long crêpe streamer will straighten a spinning kite . |
| 16 | He had decorated in international taste ; she saw African statues , bronze statues from India , from Peru — even a tall redwood statue of a Sioux Indian . |
| 17 | To show how adult even a major Fox movie could be in the late sixties , the credit sequence has the two lovebirds in bed together , cutely sleeping side by side and back to back . |
| 18 | Standard features can include items such as leather trimmed steering wheel , one-touch electric window controls , exterior temperature indicator , electrically adjustable door mirrors and even a specially-shaped garment case that stows on the underside of the rear parcel shelf . |
| 19 | Even a new cleaner generation of coal-fired power stations is 10 years away . |
| 20 | But replacing the still popular linked rectangular sink and drainer that fit over a base unit will mean fitting a new worksurface , and perhaps even a new base unit as well — a much more difficult task . |
| 21 | The 1989 by-election result , when even a split centre vote got within 2,650 of defeating Tory wunderkind Mr William Hague , was proved to be a midterm aberration . |
| 22 | Not even a lousy telephone call . |
| 23 | There was even a cardboard birthday cake about ten feet across which a couple of girls could leap out of if somebody paid for their time and the hire of a van . |
| 24 | He was even a youthful cricket author , telling the story of a tour of Australia in Trip to ‘ Kangaroo ’ Land ( published 1909 ) . |
| 25 | They sit tight , are unlikely to budge unless really disturbed and can be easily shot with a .22 rifle or even a high-powered air rifle . |
| 26 | Any chemical process , such as a perm or colourant , swells each hair shaft , increasing body , so even a subtle colour change will make hair appear thicker . |
| 27 | Even a modern cat litter nowadays |
| 28 | Crime has risen 70 per cent since poker , blackjack and slot machines returned and there is even a three-month waiting list for the jail 's cells . |
| 29 | After the Lord 's Test , further cures were tried , even a light weight metal sleeve over the elbow , but nothing worked and the unlucky Griffin was condemned to play out the remainder of the tour as an occasional batsman . |
| 30 | Conversely , while lacking those powers an asexual bud , or even a severed flatworm fragment , can do what an unfertilized ovum can not : namely , produce a whole organism without interactive collaboration with any other part ; this power being credited by Darwin to the presence in such a bud or fragment , indeed in any healing flesh , of material determining growth for all the parts of the whole organism . |