Example sentences of "but even the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next week the feet that danced on canvas will stamp on pedals in the Lombard RAC Rally , but even the loudest engine roar can not drown out the fear that haunts him . |
| 2 | But even the unrestrained delight of an audience gobsmacked at seeing The Fall in such an intimate setting in the wake of the latest reshuffle — and Smith 's consummate professionalism — ca n't disguise an essentially ropey and complacent performance . |
| 3 | But even the unrestrained delight of an audience gobsmacked at seeing The Fall in such an intimate setting in the wake of the latest reshuffle — and Smith 's consummate professionalism — ca n't disguise an essentially ropey and complacent performance . |
| 4 | Mao 's reputation had fared a little better , but even the Great Helmsman had had to endure the indignity of being retrospectively marked by his former protégés : he was allowed 60% correctness , 40% error in his actions . |
| 5 | But even the great glass eye has closed for the weekend . |
| 6 | Not only had the Poles removed the bulk of their trade , but even the remaining Polish trade went to the Polish shipping firms who still operated out of Danzig , rather than to German concerns . |
| 7 | But even the grand measures had their component parts , were made up of a multitude of successes and failures : the outcome of the co-operative movement in Ajdabiya depended on a variety of judgements — by officials , by shopkeepers and by customers — and hence on the social relation which affected them . |
| 8 | But even the fiercest dissenter would have been pushed to leave McIlvanney out of the frame . |
| 9 | The mare plunged gallantly at the hillside , but even the long rest in the dark cool wood had not restored her full strength . |
| 10 | But even the second half has some good moments , most notably a hilariously petulant temper tantrum by Nicky Henson as the actor playing Alfred in Michael 's awful show . |
| 11 | Bugs and men who study them have inspired great literature and pages and pages of nonsense But even the finest fiction has rarely improved on real life |
| 12 | But even the safest-seeming science is going to be obsolete sooner or later ; obsolete taxonomy , like that of Swainson or Agassiz , is as dead as the dodo , and those who took the risks of Darwinism usually found it interesting and fruitful . |
| 13 | But even the petty boroughs were not always easy to handle . |
| 14 | But even the mediocre ones you know you have to say , Come on chaps there must be more businesses in this . |
| 15 | So it would be , but even the Prime Minister ought to see that it is the least bad course open to her . |
| 16 | But even the radical orthodoxy of Freire himself — at least as it is expressed in the celebrated book Pedagogy of the Oppressed — has recently been challenged . |
| 17 | When policy was seen to be hurting the colonies , some protested ; but even the many who accepted that Britain 's relations with its colonies were unsatisfactory saw this as a relatively minor blemish on an otherwise desirable system . |
| 18 | But even the weak-kneed ICC officials stopped short of a total whitewash . |
| 19 | But even the ingenious Dom Pérignon failed to grasp how close he was to radically improving sparkling wine production . |
| 20 | But even the papal chancery , which alone had a system for preserving important letters , had no regular means of communicating decisions to those who were most affected by them . |
| 21 | But even the morbid gave way to humour . |
| 22 | It is just possible that d'Ohsson means Molla Fenari , whom he does not otherwise mention ; but even the earliest possible date for Molla Fenari 's becoming Multi , roughly 1380 , is too late to allow for any possibility of his having succeeded Tursun Fakih . |
| 23 | Now , I know our views on this will differ somewhat , but even the European Commission has publicly expressed its concern just recently over the levels of unemployment across Europe and about the international competitiveness of European industry compared with the rest of the world . |
| 24 | But even the lowliest appointment might oblige a freeholder who in turn desired to serve some obscure relative or other dependent , while in those appointments which demanded legal training , young advocates could establish their reputation as jurists , which in turn might attract business to their law practices in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | It was a Herculean task , and she 'd died just as she was beginning the nineteenth volume , with no end in sight , but even the one book in Godolphin 's possession was enough to guarantee that he would search for the others until his dying day . |
| 26 | But even the new bill limited adoption to parents possessing the same religious identity as the child . |
| 27 | But even the new " world-convulsion " did not impede attempts of this kind at building a new professional synthesis within English studies . |
| 28 | But even the first child can throw a low-income family into poverty . |
| 29 | But even the inside pane , where no rain could have splashed , was remarkably clean and there was no discernible dust around the sill . |
| 30 | The insistence on separate sources had been an ill-judged reaction to the Reformation Scriptura sola ; now , by viewing both Scripture and Tradition as dynamic realities , they can be seen as intimately connected , gifts of the one Spirit , in a way that satisfied not only almost all the Council 's members , but even the Reformed observers ( Schutz and Thurian , 1968 , ch. 2 ) . |