Example sentences of "even as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 2 | Britain became involved with cable early on , the first worthwhile trial being that ‘ … carried out in 1838 by Brooke , an Englishman , across the river Hoohley in India ’ .3 Even as early as 1840 a House of Commons committee had looked into the possibility of connecting Dover with Calais . |
| 3 | All this , plus the commissioning of party-political broadcasts and advertising , is designed to have the Tories ready for a fight whenever Mr Major chooses — even as early as May . |
| 4 | But even as early as St John 's Gospel ( undated but often hypothetically dated late in the first century — it can not be later ) the ‘ incarnation ’ implies a manifestation within time and history of the eternal Word of God . |
| 5 | Yet in France , even as early as the Janaury draw for the challengers ' trials , the event was screened nationally — and special television walls were installed in Tokyo stations to carry pictures in Japan . |
| 6 | Tutorial Classes were firmly in the university sector and some LEAs were arranging classes which hitherto had been the preserve of the WEA , e.g. civics and esperanto , and even as early as 1936 , the number was relatively substantial ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 7 | Even as early as 1919 scientists warned of the dangers of an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations . |
| 8 | It was hot , even as early as this . |
| 9 | He claims that he was a little pedant , even as early as the age of five . |
| 10 | The first loop , or sideways circle will be erratic and recovery somewhat haphazard : but just as with riding a bicycle , all the reactions begin to come naturally and in no time at all , even as early as the third flight , you will be diving and climbing at will . |
| 11 | But for the rest of spoken language , our neo-cortex is heavily involved , with strong evidence furthermore of lateralisation for speech even as early as birth . |
| 12 | Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days . |
| 13 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 14 | Even as early as 1147 it was apparent that the crusading movement had provided a new sense of aristocratic cohesion in the realm . |
| 15 | The open fields themselves had always been subject to piecemeal enclosure , even as early as the fourteenth century . |
| 16 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 17 | Even as early as 1916 Wilson 's satisfaction was unbounded . |
| 18 | When they saw that the war could not be won , even as early as 1941 , some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . ’ |
| 19 | Movement , in Western music , even as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , has always been in a direction away from the diatonic and through dissonance . |
| 20 | Even as early as 1887 , however , in the former Dutch East Indies ( at present Indonesia ) , VandeBurg advised a straight fruit diet . |
| 21 | As new treatments and technologies proliferate and new needs are identified these demands escalate , but even as early as 1954 , the then Minister for Health , Enoch Powell , discovered that it became a " positive ethical duty for ( providers ) to beseige and bombard the government and force or shame them into providing more money … and then more again " ( Powell 1966 ) . |
| 22 | Even as recently as 1982 , Robbe-Grillet would explain his transgressive narrative techniques by relying on the Sartrean concept of contingency ( see Oppenheim 1986 ) : the disruptive narrative syntax conveys the fragmentation of man in the world , the absence of meaning in his novels can thus be said to correspond to the gratuitousness of existence . |
| 23 | Even as recently as Giant ( 1956 ) , Rock Hudson , Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean undermined the later part of the movie by their inability to age convincingly . |
| 24 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 25 | Even as recently as this summer , for old time 's sake , perhaps , one of them was seen hanging round the campsite . |
| 26 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 27 | Even as recently as early 1990 , it seemed unlikely that optical disc-based handhelds would have significant impact in the immediate future . |
| 28 | ‘ In addition , the world oil prices have n't increased as predicted , even as recently as two years ago , and that has also had a negative impact on the decisions taken by the world 's oil producers . |
| 29 | How matters stood , even as recently as 1980 , can be seen in a summary such as this ( Brooksbank 1980:201 ) : Authorities are concerned to delegate powers , as far as is practical and efficient to do so . |
| 30 | Even as recently as the nineteen-seventies , being an umarried mother carried a stigma . ’ |