Example sentences of "even the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice . |
| 2 | THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head . |
| 3 | Even the mid-week football slot has been pushed back to 11.20pm from its prime slot after News at Ten . |
| 4 | Dexter 's immediate reaction was to say yes , but he declined the offer : he was on duty after all , and even the detective constable 's iron constitution wilted under the influence of alcohol at half past three in the afternoon . |
| 5 | A Your choice of cichlids would be too large for a community of small fish — even the Flag cichlid , although it is smaller , would not , I feel , make a good choice . |
| 6 | well not even the freehold security , that was agreed , that 's the decision of the er P L C board and as to what level that will be at , we are responsible for the , the service and management costs |
| 7 | Even the Cristolino river is polluted , and by something far more dangerous than mud . |
| 8 | Even the word order indicates a tight bond : let + infinitive occupies the syntactic position of the lexical verb , with the direct object being placed after , and not before , the infinitive . |
| 9 | Even the fist covenant was not ratified without blood . |
| 10 | The other members of the medical team seemed equally enthusiastic , with even the night charge nurse , Alan Hill , joining in . |
| 11 | For many years little notice was taken of Wordsworth 's writings before 1798 , but even the School Exercise written at the age of fourteen ( Poetical Works , i , 259–61 ) is useful as an illustration of the faults of eighteenth-century style ; it is written in heroic couplets , in imitation of the work of Alexander Pope , and contains an excessive use of personification : |
| 12 | Even The School Curriculum , although issued to all schools , had no force of law . |
| 13 | Even the school curriculum has been closely scrutinised in its national form . |
| 14 | The musical content of The Mysteries was provided by a group of musicians and singers made up of pupils and staff and even the school chaplain , Father Nick Kern on bass guitar . |
| 15 | He says Mr Kirk is just trying to influence the election and even the school headmaster wants nothing to do with it . |
| 16 | Even the school swimming could be drained because there 's not enough money to heat it . |
| 17 | Its disappearance has been followed in many cases by that of the village shop , the village post office , even the village pub — the slow , inexorable process of rural decay . |
| 18 | And now the rains had really come , so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene . |
| 19 | Deprived nowadays of their railway and most of the buses , the village school closed and the loss of even the village postman , the villagers are determined the feast will survive . |
| 20 | Even the Plowden Report expressed fears of excessive parent power and the possible harmful effects of a strong PTA . |
| 21 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 22 | Doorways and walls and even the chapel belfry are adorned with dates and inscriptions relating not to national events and national heroes but to local ‘ statesmen ’ of past generations . |
| 23 | No one — not even the hotel receptionist — can explain why they are there . |
| 24 | How much time is wasted tracking down cleaners , porters and even the hotel manager ? |
| 25 | Even the share-holding habit has been hard to nurture . |
| 26 | Even the Home Secretary , Merlyn Rees , in his Second Reading speech commending the measure to the House , volunteered that it had no theme . |
| 27 | ‘ Even the Home Office is now beginning to question whether the Firearms Amendment Act , passed after the Hungerford incident , has helped secure public safety . ’ |
| 28 | The company believes even the home market has been boosted by the housing recession , with people preferring to redecorate rather than move . |
| 29 | A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | DEMON fast bowler Wasim Akram can get movement off the smoothest surface — even the dance floor at Stringfellow 's . |