Example sentences of "but even [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some men promotion was eagerly desired , but even a promotion in rank could be distinctly harmful , as John Main discovered when he was drawn into another political conflict in 1752 . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the process started at Bristol was a beginning and has since been continued so nobly by Jo , that there are occasions now when I not only know that I am good — getting close to the shining white — but even a benefit to society ! |
| 3 | Many retired couples say that they have always shared the chores , but even a couple of the same sex sharing a home may have allocated each other certain jobs over the years , and need now to rethink who does what . |
| 4 | But even a trickle of new settlers like the Yushiskins , argue the P L O , is a serious threat . |
| 5 | But even the presence of the ridge proved nothing — it merely made the problem at once more difficult and more fascinating , and debate over the possibility of continental drift raged fiercely , with geologists divided into two opposing camps . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're living off beans and cheese and horse and ass-meat if they can pay for it , but even the price of dogs and cats is getting on the high side . |
| 7 | Preservation , it was claimed , had not only jeopardized the market 's move to Docklands but even the survival of the fishing industry of Great Britain ! |
| 8 | Technological changes are also affecting not only the content of professional work , necessitating new competences such as computing , but even the structure of professions , in terms of the relationship between the generic practitioner and the specialist technician whose power grows with the growth of specialized technology in medicine , management and other fields . |
| 9 | Petitioning for bankruptcy tends to be the last resort , but even the threat of petitioning can prove most effective . |
| 10 | Not only was metal shaped in this fire , but even the smelting of fine high carbon steel for sword blades was accomplished on the simple arrangement . |
| 11 | The concentration of neurons in ganglia is perhaps the first step towards building a brain , but even the appearance of a large head ganglion does not ensure that brains of the sort that humans and other mammals possess are the only design solution that can result . |
| 12 | But even the theme of agricultural distress is subordinate to the attack on Godwin 's belief that property is evil . |
| 13 | The chief mourner continued to wear a coat with train , together with the mourning hood , but even the manner of wearing the hood changed : draped round the shoulders like a short scarf rather than being worn over the head . |
| 14 | Thankfully , there 'd been no traffic coming ; the concept of striking up an intimate — indeed potentially penetrative — relationship with the rocks on the far side of the road had been bad enough ; but even the prospect of a head-on with another lump of metal travelling at anything remotely like the sort of speed we were sustaining might have resulted in me making my mark in the most embarrassing fashion on the leather upholstery of the Bavarian macht-wagen . |
| 15 | For , as Engels wrote to Kautsky in 1882 , both movements had ‘ not only the right but even the duty to be nationalistic before they become internationalistic … they are most internationalistic when they are genuinely nationalistic ’ . |
| 16 | But even the war of 1808–14 and the French occupation produced its crop of nouveaux riches , flourishing on army contracts . |