Example sentences of "[verb] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were those who doubted that he would win even one major title . |
| 2 | According to the convention , Barker himself does n't include even a postcard to Wright in his own posthumous collection , Street Ballads ( Faber , £4.99 ) , addressing instead the shades of Yeats , Kavanagh , Tennyson , Shakespeare and Catullus . |
| 3 | These poets are trying to speak for the lost generations , condemned forever to inarticulacy ; and to speak aloud about simple things that they had been forbidden even to think about . |
| 4 | His marriage to another woman , an immutable fact , posed even greater restrictions on their fledgling nuclear romance . |
| 5 | Christina had n't seen Martin for about six months , since Stephen had made it plain how much he objected even to a friendship between them . |
| 6 | Some families choose particular village locations because multiple-car ownership eases their problems of accessibility ; others make the choice or are constrained to a particular area for economic reasons even though the ownership of just one car may cause difficulties for some members of the family ; yet other households may be constrained even to particular houses in particular locations . |
| 7 | It resolves the puzzle of why the Earth cooled even while the concentration of carbon dioxide was continuing to grow exponentially , and all it requires is a peak change in solar luminosity of just 0.28 per cent over the 76-year cycle , producing a maximum influence on surface temperatures on Earth of only 0.28°C . |
| 8 | The question remains , if the Irish do not want toxic waste , will Britain have to accept even more of it ? |
| 9 | Simply , this is a blanket opposition to the bosses , but is also a refusal to accept even the idea of acknowledged leadership . |
| 10 | At first glance the easiest solution to the difficulty which the eager candidates for the collectorship had created would appear to have been to take the advice which was being so strongly urged , and install Craigbarnet to share the office with Kirkton , for Craigbarnet would certainly have been willing to accept even a small fraction of the emoluments in his desperate need . |
| 11 | Where previously Tony had struggled to accept even basic school discipline , he was able to survive St Augustine 's with only the occasional small-scale disagreements with a minority of staff . |
| 12 | At all levels of church life there is an urgent need for role-models to encourage even the most prejudiced and most embattled to rethink their ways . |
| 13 | Maybe they will trigger some latent talent to encourage even more extensive artforms . |
| 14 | These are designed to encourage even development throughout the Community : for example , by helping to retrain the long-term unemployed , or by channelling aid to poorer member-states and to regions hit by the decline of old industries . |
| 15 | The honourable gentleman knows that the new modern apprenticeship scheme that the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced on the thirtieth of November , is of course designed to encourage more young people to train up to N V Q level three and to encourage even more young people to train to even higher levels . |
| 16 | I had n't known how to explain what had been happening even if I 'd dared to . |
| 17 | His sensory feedback had not informed him that this was happening even though the tension needed to throw his head back had been tremendous . |
| 18 | At last something was happening even here , deep in the provinces ! |
| 19 | And , just like a spent rocket , the plummet to earth is happening even faster than the upward rise . |
| 20 | Nothing is happening even with radio programmes , every half an hour . |
| 21 | A strong base of parental involvement is unlikely to be shed even though membership of the group of active parents constantly changes as children move on to the next stage of education . |
| 22 | States certainly vary , and have varied even more in the past , in the degree to which such voter-wooing is necessary . |
| 23 | What is also clear is that the drive for monetary union will compound this problem , and place even further stresses and responsibilities at the door of EC regional policy . |
| 24 | The VAT charges of 8 per cent next year and 17.5 per cent in 1995 will , she fears , place even greater burdens on her over-stretched budget , in spite of the Chancellor 's promise that the cost will be met by benefit increases . |
| 25 | If you press even one or two types of flower you could possibly decorate a photograph of your holiday with a pressed flower mount ( see pp. 136–7 ) . |
| 26 | Now I had to work even harder , as people came to look at me ten times a day . |
| 27 | The doctor sent us back to work even though my eyes were really bad . |
| 28 | Yet most of the key figures in government concluded that they had no choice but to try to work even more closely with the United States , whatever their feelings on the subject of Suez . |
| 29 | Well , if that was so she would need to work even harder to appear indifferent . |
| 30 | Yes , because you know , erm , we still save money on labour costs , erm , but there again when you get , when people do go sick , it 's er , it 's quite detrimental , so everyone 's having to work even harder . |