Example sentences of "even [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It even offers a model for change in the direction of an increase in rationality . |
| 2 | The past that historians study thus normally embraces , and even plays a part in shaping , the world they themselves inhabit . |
| 3 | Just have a quick slosh , well hardly even needs a slosh round does it ? |
| 4 | In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It even has a stone inset . |
| 6 | Yes , this is possible and it even has a name : superfecundation . |
| 7 | He even has a name for it . |
| 8 | Not only are characters within the tale likened to animals — for instance the miller , proud as a peacock , with his skull " " piled as an ape " " , or his wife , " " peert as is a pye " " ( 3926 , 3935 , 3950 ) — but an animal has a substantial role to play in the story : the clerk 's horse , a stallion , who even has a name , Bayard . |
| 9 | Somehow , Reg Pybus , who is such a square he even has a mono Walkman , refused to drink with the match only hours away , and so managed to get the team into their kit and out on to the pitch . |
| 10 | By chance , Jean even has a video of the other woman — dancing at a social event , in a sheer red dress showing a black bra beneath . |
| 11 | It even has a title that has nothing to do with anything else in the film whatsoever . |
| 12 | The Poyser monograph on The Barn Owl was published at the same time ; it has more words , contains many photo graphs and even has a colour plate , yet is £15 cheaper . |
| 13 | This machine even has a head cleaner that is actually built in . |
| 14 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |
| 15 | The USA even has a law under the Freedom of Information Act which requires organisations like the NTSB to make their files available to the press and public at all times . |
| 16 | The restaurant even has a division bell on one of its walls to alert dining MPs when a vote is about to be held . |
| 17 | A small group of islands off Thailand even has a genus of langur monkeys unknown anywhere else in the Oriental Region . |
| 18 | He even has a swimming pool there . |
| 19 | Johannesburg even has a cluster suburb . |
| 20 | He even has a hand jive in there too . |
| 21 | The reversing machine even has a speech synthesiser to tell the owner how to operate it . |
| 22 | ‘ A great deal or risible tosh , ’ sniffed the Telegraph admitting : ‘ At times it even achieves a level of plodding competence . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ A woman is beautiful to the extent that she most completely incarnates the secret aspirations of man ’ , wrote the poet Benjamin Peret in his Anthologie de l'Amor ; and whether in the work of Magritte or Masson , Max Ernst , Dali or most chillingly of all , Hans Bellmer , the female form appears distorted , dissected , feathered , bound and strapped to machines , she rarely even wears a face . |
| 24 | Grace Craig in Human Development even includes a section on death as the last development of all , the final growth experience . |
| 25 | It is a rather uncharacteristic work , scored fr the unusual combination of two violins and double bass , which like Mozart 's Musical Joke , pokes gentle fun at badly played dance music , and even includes a section where the players are instructed to shout at the beats of the bar ! |
| 26 | Undoubtedly low-cost and based on a quite remarkable piece of British software , Fleet Street Publisher ( Note : do not confuse with the awful Fleet Street Editor ) it even includes a page printer . |
| 27 | The diocese of Salisbury stretches out from Lyme Regis in the south-west ( it even includes a parish in Devon ) almost as far as Swindon in the north , and the eastern boundaries run into Hampshire before they drop down to Poole . |
| 28 | He was pious , and Gregory even recounts a miracle worked by a thread taken from his cloak . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , he 's usually doing thirty mile an hour by the time he hits the blackberry hedge at the bottom of the pitch , never even gets a scratch as a rule . |
| 30 | And in educational administration textbooks , of course , written for potential ( male ? ) managers of schools , gender barely even gets a mention in the index ( Davies 1985b ) . |