Example sentences of "even the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the vestibule in which they embraced was overflowing with collectables : a wooden dog , plastic roses in psychedelic profusion , sugar skulls on plates . |
| 2 | But then most of the police — even the ones in cars — are sporting red noses for the occasion . |
| 3 | Even the ones in English had a Polish theme : the rise and fall of Solidarity , Eastern Europe , the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Like most of the City messengers these days , even the ones in the dinky shorts on BMX bikes , he was radio-controlled and , like a copper , he had his tacked on to his collar . |
| 5 | They home in on to anything damp , even the moisture in something 's body . |
| 6 | Even the way in which Jews called their religious teachers ‘ rabbis ’ is suspected of applying some form of divinity to them . |
| 7 | Even the steelwork in such plants can perform as an aerial , converting wave energy to sparks strong enough to ignite flammable gases . |
| 8 | When I lived in Dublin at the end of the Second World War , one of my friends was an obsessive film buff whose dramatic recall , frame by frame , of scenes such as the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin or the final chase in Fritz Lang 's M often hypnotized even the drunks in the bars we frequented . |
| 9 | Even the sun in Scotland can cause damage , though the problem is clearly more intense in the Mediterranean and more exotic holiday locations . |
| 10 | Not even the year in which he was born , the sort of information even gravestones give away . |
| 11 | Even the man in the hood does n't count for much with them . |
| 12 | It 's an occasion bristling with tradition — women in long hemlines and men in blazers and ties — but there is one major change this year which even the man in charge of the whole event can only approve of . |
| 13 | Even the repetition in parallel of examples from different spheres of experience ( " rose … velvet … flour … wit … head " ) enforces the generality of a didactic principle which is otherwise seen to be particular . |
| 14 | She knew it , and they knew it too — even the women in the audience responded well to her brand of flirting , recognising it for what it was . |
| 15 | Even the child in Molly 's arms smiled sleepily when her sisters told her that the water had come at last . |
| 16 | Yes , even the chaps in the red braces and rhomboid haircuts can be humbled by technofear . |
| 17 | Automatically , Marie sat bolt upright , even the muscles in her body alert to this new challenge . |
| 18 | That money is pure commission , Nick , a mere ten per cent of the value of the cocaine that was stored on their island while it awaited transportation to the good old US of A ; and neither you , nor I , nor even the dickheads in the Drug Enforcement Administration will ever know just how much money was not put in the bank , but stored in paper bags under the bed . ’ |
| 19 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
| 20 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 21 | Despite all the public hoo-hah over the recent sale of jewels , the items which are really important to the history of the family — and to Europe itself — are the archives of Europe 's first postal service , founded in the Middle Ages by the Thurn und Taxis , and the two incredibly fine libraries ; compared with these , even the furnishings in the castle pale into insignificance . |
| 22 | Gradually weight loss occurs despite a good diet , and in the final stages the person ceases to recognise the family or even the self in the mirror , loses bladder and bowel control , any capacity for self-care or ability to communicate in words . |
| 23 | For example , in the Stapleton case in 1975 the defendant was acquitted of rape despite the fact that even the judge in passing sentence had said : ‘ I have no doubt you instilled terror into this woman when you went into that room and made your intentions quite clear ’ . |
| 24 | Even the togas in this spoof on the Julius Caesar- and Cleopatra story — . |
| 25 | Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith . |
| 26 | Even the Arabs in the Ministry of Health office in the hospital had n't really been briefed , and the poor man who was given the job of meeting our needs nearly had a heart attack when I showed him a copy of the list I had sent out to his head office weeks ago . |
| 27 | Or even the airport in Prague ? |
| 28 | For all that , I conclude that the postulated underlying rules for development may usefully account for some of the variation in human sexual behaviour and possibly even the variation in marriage laws . |
| 29 | The noise in the taproom stilled for a moment , even the farmers in the corner drunkenly arguing about the price of wheat ; two harridans from the town shrieking at each other over an upturned barrel ; and a group of young bloods , garishly dressed in costly silks , noisily roistering before a night out on the town . |
| 30 | Even the securist in the maternity ward probably lived such a squalid and impoverished life that his price for turning a blind eye to abortion was not very high . |