Example sentences of "be that even [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One of the strands of that concept is that even rational thought may not be just what it seems on the surface .
2 This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature .
3 ‘ The truth is that even one drink can impair driving performance .
4 Its advantage over the Tabriz loom is that even larger carpets can be made .
5 But what is interesting is that even die-hard sexists have had to change their argument in defence of traditional usage .
6 The experience of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) is that even imprudent or reckless credit use rarely on its own produces serious debt problems .
7 The second caveat is that even this amount of support is reduced when hypothetical compromises are put to the public .
8 A third and almost as clear a theme is that even this inadequate level of services has been declining very fast , in both the USA ( Johansen and Fuguitt , 1984 ) and in the UK .
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