Example sentences of "even for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's an energetic part even for a young singer . |
| 2 | Even for a lifelong friend this is skating on thin ice ! ) |
| 3 | Knowing what to choose , assessing one policy against another , weighing up the risk factor as well as trying to estimate what this will mean in terms of your standard of living after you retire could be a bit of a gamble even for a financial expert . |
| 4 | Beatrice Webb wrote feelingly that the position of the unmarried daughter at home was ‘ an unhappy one even for a strong woman ’ . |
| 5 | Perhaps generations of detective story writers , from Wilkie Collins down , are responsible for the romantic image of criminal investigation , so that even for a modern hard-bitten public the initials C.I.D . |
| 6 | Therefore , even for a private company , high profits do not necessarily imply efficiency . |
| 7 | The reaction on Wall Street was encapsulated in the fact that the shares lost a dollar and slumped as low as $80 even for a 10-year low in early trading on the day . |
| 8 | A procedure which keeps alive a warning ( even for a major breach of discipline ) for more than two or three years is almost always unjust . |
| 9 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 10 | Ali was so mean that he was unlikely to buy advertising space , even for a religious edict , and , anyway , he had clearly found Robert 's words so offensive that he had , so far , been incapable of repeating them to anyone . |
| 11 | Firstly , it is perhaps surprising that the procedure is very difficult to do by hand , even for a small number of objects , and is quite impossible for a large number . |
| 12 | It is clear that finance , even for a small museum , can not be taken lightly , but this is generally felt to be a project that the Society should go ahead with , if at all possible . |
| 13 | Dishonest borrowings , even for a long time , are not theft . |
| 14 | The current state of handwriting recognition can reach high recognition figures , but only on consistently reasonably neat handwriting , even for a user-dependent system . |
| 15 | The tightest tight shoppers are in Wales , where nine out of 10 women would only spend £5 on a pair , even for a special event such as a wedding . |
| 16 | It was easy to convince himself that with care , when Alice was in London and no visitors expected , they could be together in his bedroom perhaps even for a whole night , but he knew that he would never risk it . |
| 17 | By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world … . |
| 18 | Provincial accents were then acceptable , even for a brief moment preferred ; writers were making memorable works out of a background much nearer that of Burton . |
| 19 | Even for a single moment . |
| 20 | We have now shown that , even for a single symptom shared by a set of patients the explanation of that symptom might be different for different patients . |
| 21 | In 1939 less than half the population left home even for a single night in the year ; 3 yet during the course of the war there were 60 million changes of address in a civilian population of 38 million . |
| 22 | " The only safe and correct approach is not to allow an injunction to remain , even for a single day , if it was clearly wrong for it to have been granted . " |
| 23 | How can you bear to relinquish the helm , even for a single minute ? ’ |
| 24 | This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement . |
| 25 | Clearly , the r.m.s. value will only be displayed by the type of system under discussion , even for a sinusoidal input waveform , as long as the amplitude of the input remains sufficiently large in relationship to the forward potential drop across the diodes . |
| 26 | Moral purists may well debate Aitken 's propriety in selling — even for a charitable cause — something which did not belong to him , namely the copyright in the report , but others may share my own view that , having regard to the intensity of the pro-Biafran feelings of Aitken and Fraser , this particular act would not seriously impede an unobstructed entry into heaven . |
| 27 | Even for a little baby like you . |
| 28 | However , recently , the courts have taken a more laissez-faire attitude to exclusion clauses and fundamental breach on the basis that the parties should be free to agree that there should be no liability under the contract even for a fundamental breach , if that was their desire , see Photo Productions Ltd. v Securicor Transport Ltd. [ 1980 ] . |
| 29 | That was £45,000 over the odds , even for a brand-new model — and he had to get a secondhand one because back in 1989 the prestige-car market was still booming and the limited supply of Lamborghinis imported from Italy had already been snapped up . |
| 30 | Even for a commercial artist , many of the patterns and textures will provide the basis for shading and tonal work or even complete illustrations . |