Example sentences of "even [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ American culture ’ is widely regarded as inferior to ‘ European culture ’ , even as a threat . |
| 2 | The poor , or " the mob or mere dregs of the people " as Henry Fox , father of Charles James , once called them , were seen not only as wholly unfit to rule , being ignorant and lacking the independence which property supposedly conferred , but even as a threat to the freedom for which England was internationally renowned . |
| 3 | There was no guarantee that it would lead to a new deal for the industry nor that , even as a compromise , it would hold against the tensions of a situation in which one side at least seemed determined to continue on a collision course . |
| 4 | It is tempting to dismiss Symphony as yesterday 's software on the grounds that it now looks very unexciting even as a DOS product . |
| 5 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |
| 6 | ( There had always been a certain lifelessness about Jane — I felt it even as a child . |
| 7 | He began counting to himself as he had always done , even as a child , when under stress . |
| 8 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 9 | But then , even as a child she 'd usually persuade him to let her do this or that against his better judgement . |
| 10 | And even as a child , she wanted things to be possible . |
| 11 | Besides , she had always been honest , had never stolen anything , not even as a child . |
| 12 | Clever , educated , efficient , but oh , how shy , how awkward with her body even as a child . |
| 13 | Even as a child Eva is described as bright eyed , full of life , the apple of everybody 's eye . |
| 14 | ( 22 ) Margaret is a rather meteorological expert they bought some extremely clerical collars This effect is seen very clearly in the cases where the same word can be used in each of the different ways ; thus the adjective musical can perfectly well be modified for intensity when it is used ascriptively : ( 23 ) even as a child Naomi had a very musical voice but when it is associative , the result is again unacceptable : ( 24 ) we 've found a legal text and a very musical treatise 2.6 It is not necessary to be a linguist to feel that there is a difference in the two ways of using attributives . |
| 15 | Repressively she said , ‘ Even as a child , I hated my jack-in-the-box . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Even as a child , I was greedy and impatient . |
| 17 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 18 | Even as a child , Russell describes himself as having found this intellectual , religious background as intolerable , and he says that he spent endless hours meditating on the supposed rational grounds for Christianity . |
| 19 | Similarly , cosmetic surgery is seen in the professional literature as an option ( some parents choose it , some do n't ) , or even as a kind of cure , especially by the surgeons contracted to perform it , whose understanding of the issues extends as far as the principle that if people see a physically normal child they will react to it ‘ normally ’ and will elicit normal behaviour . |
| 20 | The new rules were bound to have an adverse effect on the general public 's attitude to the Society and before long it was obvious that the papingo shoot was losing its popularity with ordinary people , even as a spectacle . |
| 21 | As a labour film Hamilton thought that it got nowhere and even as a film about a mining community he thought that ‘ everything is too neat and tidy and well-ordered to hint at what actual conditions may be ’ . |
| 22 | I WAS astonished by your expert 's view that Jerry Hall had considerable claim to Mick Jagger 's fortune , even as a common-law wife . |
| 23 | He should have been on the team , even as a second . |
| 24 | Even as a toddler . |
| 25 | Even as a girl her lovers were always hand-picked , an elite , far above the usual rabble of irregulars , mercenaries , pressed men . |
| 26 | We like to think of you not as clients , but as guests , or as you may well discover even as a part of the family . |
| 27 | In Bavaria I have been served the paler , lighter type of wheat beer as a refreshingly tart , acidic , Champagne-like summer refresher , or even as a dessert beer , with elderberry fritters ( how about apple pie with cinnamon and cloves ? ) , but there are also darker and stronger versions more suited to autumn and winter . |
| 28 | Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt , a bikini top — or even as a scarf . |
| 29 | ‘ Even as a tree has a single trunk , but many branches and leaves , so there is one true and perfect Religion , but it becomes many . |
| 30 | It is , however , not on his career at Court or as a bishop or even as a controversialist that Andrewes ' place in the history of the Church of England depends , but on his sermons and private prayers , which were published after his death . |