Example sentences of "even a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had not been asked about materials because a layman 's opinion , or even a manufacturer 's label , was not reliable . |
| 2 | Would he suffer even a second 's remorse ? |
| 3 | The hotel boasted passenger lifts , electric bells , revolving doors and even a ladies ' smoking room , which were very advanced for the period and reflected the Midland Railway 's innovative character . |
| 4 | From the absolute standpoint , even a man 's body has to be regarded as a possession , so dedicated use of the body in the service of others is the highest ideal and the most effective means of happiness . |
| 5 | But these days not even a king 's ransom would tempt ‘ Arry to ditch Yorkshire and return to the bright lights of London . |
| 6 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 7 | Our first port of call was the island of Whalsay which had a fine modern harbour , a fish processing plant and even a cooper 's shop where we watched fish barrels being made . |
| 8 | This season , I have attended a National League game almost every weekend , district matches , the international trial , even a women 's game . |
| 9 | Even a firm 's intellectual product , like systems for psychological measurement and testing can have an environmental impact just as pervasive as the air conditioning or noise . |
| 10 | ( It 's also obvious that it 's much safer , and the dangers of losing a client with the attendant bad publicity [ not even a Land 's End Ltd press release would cover that one ] , are not in anybody 's professional interests . |
| 11 | You do not need a thermostat , so a pond or even a brewer 's immersible heater is all right , connected to the mains with outdoor quality cable and plugs — via a circuit breaker for safety . |
| 12 | After a pretentious dinner and a bad night — it is rare , I find , to get through even a fortnight 's motoring trip in France without at least one such disaster — spent in a highly unlikely establishment disguised as a cluster of Camargue guardian huts , we left before breakfast and spent a healing morning lost in the remaining lonely stretches of this once completely wild , mysterious , melancholy , half-land , half-water , Rhone estuary country . |
| 13 | A community is always changing and evolving , and even a year 's study ( three years in the case of the Banbury study ) barely touches on this process . |
| 14 | I doubt even a lifetime 's subscription to a class in good manners would do anything to improve your temperament . ’ |
| 15 | Billet , codling , flatfish , mackerel and whiting from the piers or the beach ; there 's even a children 's corner in the harbour . |
| 16 | It would be smooth sailing , if one could determine the course of one 's actions only by one general principle whose application at a given moment was too obvious to need even a moment 's reflection . |
| 17 | People are not as simplistic as this ; even a moment 's reflection leads to the conclusion that language has many more functions . |
| 18 | He was the member for a South London constituency , a safe seat which he nevertheless hardly ever left , as if fearing that even a week 's absence might put it in jeopardy . |
| 19 | but if you if you if that 's all you do then in eve even a week 's time but definitely in a few months ' time it 's just gone . |
| 20 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 21 | Even a horse 's need for drinking water can become distorted . |
| 22 | But even a schoolboy 's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point ; and Blast had none . |
| 23 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |