Example sentences of "even [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It will not even perish by the flames of fire .
2 However , she did not realize that the old lady had never even heard about the family connection .
3 Imagine his surprise , therefore , when he discovered that not a single German he met had ever been in the Nazi Party , let alone had even heard of a concentration camp .
4 If he believes that many of those millions have even heard of the party , he will believe anything .
5 And he 's not even heard of the Welfare State .
6 ‘ I never knew th 'd even heard of the Quakers , ’ Jess said .
7 A poor advertising campaign , which the CC has promised to rectify this year , meant many people have not even heard of the project .
8 Each page is a game , with ideas like Missing Numbers introducing children to algebra long before they 've even heard of the word .
9 ‘ I NEVER ever went to a gig or had even heard of the term ‘ gig ’ before I joined the band , ’ says the little girl who owns pop 's most exquisite voice .
10 Th I mean , I 've never even heard of the term clitoris , and a friend of mine thought her clitoris was actually her epiglottis , I mean it just got
11 No one even heard of the Limnititzkers till seventeen hundred and something .
12 I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary
13 MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century .
14 Even allowing for a desire to please his audience , sentiments of that sort sound better news than warnings of confrontation .
15 Even allowing for a more diverse class-composition , this village inhabits another world from that other .
16 These rosy expectations were not , however , to be fulfilled and even allowing for a degree of misfortune , Carter 's record of achievement as president was slim .
17 Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations .
18 Even allowing for a slight predominance of boys over girls among children , this still suggests that around two-thirds of the first generation of mill workers were female .
19 Erm er on that basis erm we would and and even allowing for even allowing for a dense movement from Bradford to North Yorkshire , erm we as it said in our statements , are happy that that movement will not hinder urban regeneration in the urban area of the Bradford Metropolitan district .
20 Its over 2 legs so even allowing for a ‘ lukic ’ of a game , we should get thru , and maybe if the season has nt got going by then it will give us the start .
21 Both are well up on the old 1.8 's 89hp and 101lbf ft , and ( even allowing for an extra 234kg/516lb of flab ) power/weight ratio has improved by 19% .
22 Could we climb that fast , even allowing for the more modest grading of most of it ?
23 But , even allowing for the conditions , Luxton and David Pears were never much better than a lumbering link .
24 Under Sean Kerly , Southgate have got their act together quickly , even allowing for the loss of such players as Richard Dodds and Robert Clift , Peter Boxell and Jagdis Barber , and through injury , Rupert Welch and John Shaw .
25 The engineering brief was to achieve a 10 per cent gain in performance over the already rapid Turbo R , implying a top speed target of well over 150mph and 0–60mph acceleration in just over six seconds — a tough task , even allowing for the aerodynamic gains in the switch to the coupe shape , in a vehicle weighing at least two-and-a-half tons .
26 Even allowing for the pound being on home ground that is a sizeable difference .
27 Bonn is a handsome town but , far as it is from the historic centres of German power , it seems an odd choice for a capital , even allowing for the Allies ' post-war policy of de-centralisation .
28 Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours .
29 A portrait of a fat and overpowering Sir John is still at the house today and , even allowing for the artist 's flattery of his patron , this is a face you would not trust .
30 Even allowing for the subject under exposition that evening , ’ he said , ‘ I would hardly think that the two were connected . ’
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