Example sentences of "even at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when , towards the July gloaming , the royal-standard party arrived back and proceeded up to Berwick Castle with , even at a distance , an air of triumph unmistakable , the watchers ' hearts sank . |
| 2 | She explained that the tree , to her looked like a green fuzzy clump even at a distance of a few feet . |
| 3 | While he says it would be a hundred per cent certain to go up if an atom bomb exploded alongside it , we must n't over-estimate the effects of a more remote explosive shock , even at a distance of a few miles . |
| 4 | Even at a distance , William Joyce in 1934 is a frightening figure . |
| 5 | Even at a distance , the noise hurt Defries 's ears . |
| 6 | Even at a distance of twenty yards I could see that their physiognomy was very different from the delicate features of Indian girls . |
| 7 | He waved the paper at her , and , even at a distance , she could see that it said very little . |
| 8 | He was still leaning on the rake , gazing along the path towards him and , even at a distance of several yards , Harry could see that he was not mistaken . |
| 9 | No amount of mathematical modelling can produce the answers to these questions — even at a cost of £550 000 . |
| 10 | The intention here is not to construct a full history of the post-war period but it will be necessary to examine some of the main developments in the class/collectivity/political force relationships over the post-war years , even at a cost of some over-simplification , in order to establish a basis for the fuller discussion in the following chapter of these relationships under the Thatcher government . |
| 11 | A steady circulation of 300,000 should make a healthy profit , even at a cover price of 35p . |
| 12 | Our study shows that bFGF , even at a dose that did not affect gastric acid secretion ( 30 µg/kg/day ) , was also effective in healing these lesions . |
| 13 | ‘ If you do n't laugh , you 'll cry ’ is Robin Williams ' motto in this humorous and very human film about Joey , a car salesman who ca n't resist making a sale , even at a funeral . |
| 14 | In fact I 'll change with the last record that I heard ; if I hear someone I really like on a record , or even at a gig before I play , then the chances are I 'll be playing some of his licks . |
| 15 | The conventions were changing , assumptions were changing , though not everybody was to enjoy or to survive the metamorphosis , the plunge , the leap into water or air ; change is painful , transition is painful , and the social world had not yet reached a stage which could have greeted as conventional , precisely , even at a much-mixed , smart , Bohemian-flavoured cosmopolitan New Year 's Eve party , the excessively raised voices of two journalist-historians , once friends and allies and fellow contributors to the current of immortal truth and to the New Statesman , now locked in bitter dispute about that ghastly , trailing decaying albatross-corpse of the Left , Public Ownership and Clause 4 : ‘ You squint-eyed git , you treacherous , turncoat , lying , statistic-faking git , ’ shouted Giles , the man of the Left , who appeared to be losing the argument , his voice rising above the more amiable party hubbub in a shriek of despair , a shriek that summoned to his side Liz Headleand , with Kate Armstrong and Ivan Warner in quick attendance . |
| 16 | She wanted to go on acting , even at a place like the Manatee , making enough money to live on , to help Paul until his books were famous . |
| 17 | A squeeze on public spending , adoption of money supply targets , privatization ( sale of BP shares in 1976 ) , and the priority accorded to fighting inflation , even at a time of historically high unemployment , were all in place under Mr Callaghan . |
| 18 | The dealers , said Ward , are ‘ ecstatic with the price ’ and , even at a time when speculating on cars has fallen flat , steps were being taken to ensure that only genuine customers had their £20,000 deposits accepted . |
| 19 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 20 | In the Japanese textile industry , long-standing employers ' organisations were equally active in regulating employer competition for labour and in fixing labour standards — even at a time when the supply side of the market was little affected by trade unions ( Taira , 1973 ) . |
| 21 | The West Indians were alert to any erosion of their parliamentary position even at a time when the principle of maintaining slavery was virtually lost . |
| 22 | ‘ They were so well paid too , that even at a time of servant shortage people were queuing up to work there . |
| 23 | Bridbury also suggests , from the admissions to the freedom of the boroughs , that the ranks of the citizens were being widened , and that even at a time when rural conditions provided more incentive for men to remain in the country than at an earlier date the towns were still able to attract them ( 61 , pp.62–4 ( Tables , 65–9 ) ) . |
| 24 | While lords were concerned about returns from their estates , their normal practice was to exploit traditional resources rather than to seek more profitable areas for investment , even at a time when population decline made it hard for them to find tenants and had reduced rent levels and the income from them . |
| 25 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 26 | But even at a time when the church is under financial pressure , Father Robert Sweeney does n't think they 're being over extravagant . |
| 27 | The book did n't quite fit , even at an angle . |
| 28 | What those figures certainly reveal is that the real gains in investment in British business since 1979 have been sustained , so that even at the depth of this present recession investment is 40 per cent . |
| 29 | But today for the first time she was certain that even in Paul 's presence she would find the courage to say what she wanted , what she really wanted , in the depth of her soul ; she was certain that she would find this courage even at the price of ruining everything between them . |
| 30 | ‘ In prayer we are gradually hollowed out to become more ‘ capax Dei ’ ’ ( capacity for God ) , said Maria Boulding , and someone pastoring others will be only too aware of the need to receive even at the price of felt ( and often uncomfortable ) emptiness . |