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

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1 The LDP fear that an attempt to phase out whaling , even for a theoretically temporary period of a moratorium , would lose them the support of the fishing communities .
2 There was no studio in Danu , not even for a little fifteen-minute slot on Sundays .
3 Even for a very long text , about half of the words found will only occur once .
4 A person who has been thinking intensely , for example , even for a very short time will leave these thoughts in the vapour .
5 Even for a relatively simple behaviour like the VOR , a biological system must face many constraints that require a complex neural network with the possibility of multiple sites and mechanisms of learning .
6 That was sometimes too much even for the equally outrageous Orton , who partly envied the relationship Ken had with his mother — he knew he could n't talk to his own parent that way — and was partly disgusted by it , to the point of wanting to change the subject from sexual organs and sexual intercourse to something more inane .
7 Torture is also routine in criminal investigations , even for the most petty offense .
8 Within 60 years , the nineteenth-century fascination with the Middle East begins to lose its romantic edge , even for the most mundane travellers .
9 This is first because of the individual differences in stylistic competence already noted ; secondly because our sense of style is essentially vague and indeterminate , not reducible to quantities ; and thirdly because it is likely that certain deviances ( below a certain level of significance ) do not reach the threshold of response , even for the most experienced , alert , and sensitive reader .
10 The light hearted and straightforward way in which the author has approached this book should take most of the hard work out of learning Excel , even for the most apprehensive beginner .
11 There was no certainty of work even for the most skilled : during the slump of 1857–8 the number of workers in the Berlin engineering industry fell by almost a third .
12 Indeed , even for the most familiar fraction , " J " , only 26 per cent of pupils were able to express this as 0.5 while 31 per cent of pupils were able to write 0.5 as ½ ( or
13 Remember — it 's always worth turning up even for the most popular events , but we suggest that you check with the Box Office on availability first .
14 Rare is the commercial , even for the most drab products , in which the cast is not prettier than most people .
15 I still believe that even for the most senior colleges , there is value in an external incentive — provided that the Council does not continue for ever its inspectoral function , and becomes instead more of an advisory body in partnership with the colleges .
16 Not that acers insist on an acid woodland soil , not even for the most exotic species with unpronounceable Japanese names ; I have even seen them as cut plants on patios .
17 The Vantage is top of the market stuff , costing £150,000 even for the most basic model .
18 In so far as the fear of relativism is of it becoming even for the most aware a matter of taste whether one is selfish or unselfish , compassionate or cruel , the fear is misplaced .
19 He looked at the hillside across the river , where the moving masses had halted , still just out of range even for the most expert , to redress their line .
20 The bleeding might then stop spontaneously , but this time there would be no question of coming home , even for the most disciplined bed-rest .
21 It is impossible to say , even for the relatively well-documented western part of the Carolingian Empire , how many counts there were at any one time , let alone identify the personnel .
22 Quarterly bills were thus more widely used by the mid-1950s , even for the relatively poor consumers .
23 In all their subsequent movements during the campaign , the Germans were immeasurably helped by the Russian staff practice — inexplicably naive even for the militarily inept — of sending radio messages and orders ‘ in clear ’ rather than in cypher .
24 The atmosphere is always electric , so it is an easy temptation to begin uninhibitedly , even for the very experienced .
25 In windy conditions it is excellent practice in controlling the model even for the very experienced flyer .
26 However , it is clear that not all aspects of deixis can be treated truth-conditionally , as we shall see below , and there are considerable problems even for the apparently tractable cases .
27 Because the international standards of vital statistics give priority only to age and parity ( United Nations , 1964 , pp. 11–12 ) , death certificates ordinarily do not include questions on birth interval ; the importance of spacing can be determined mostly from special studies in which birth and death records are matched , and there is a conspicuous lack of these studies even for the more advanced countries .
28 Even for the more careful managers , their decade or so of good fortune had far too weak a base to survive .
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