Example sentences of "[vb past] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | His marriage to another woman , an immutable fact , posed even greater restrictions on their fledgling nuclear romance . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They never faced the situation realistically ; inflation got out of hand and contributed even more than the military inertia to bringing about the Nationalist downfall . |
| 5 | This may be seen as a move to make international law into proper law , or at least international law with one of its essential purposes , the control of force , and , of course , there have long been laws to restrict the type and degree of force used even in legitimate war , and some restrictions on the very legality of wars , for instance when they are in contravention of treaties . |
| 6 | The eyes narrowed even more and became inverted and reddish ; the mouth thinned and slavered ; there was the white gleam of teeth , pointed and dripping with saliva … |
| 7 | English hearts sank even further than they already were , for it would not have needed a weather forecaster to predict that Hurricane Viv was about to strike . |
| 8 | I sank even lower into my seat when he mentioned glasses , but he did n't seem to be looking at me . |
| 9 | Storms and high tides over the winter gauged even deeper into the sand dunes . |
| 10 | The situation as regards the merger of their two respective companies in Japan — Unix Labs Pacific and Novell KK — is more complicated — so complicated that Noorda said he would need lawyers — anathema to the Japanese — involved even to discuss it . |
| 11 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 12 | He moved even before the singing stopped , rolling into the thick rye stalks where , without bothering to see what damage his shot had done , he began reloading . |
| 13 | Average family size at age 36 among the 1946 birth cohort of women was 2.0 among women in social class I increasing to 2.7 among women in social class V. During the declining fertility of the 1970s , social classes I and V moved even closer together , as fertility of the latter fell faster ( Pearce and Britton 1977 , Werner 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Irene moved even closer as the conversation took another turn . |
| 15 | He reached for me again , and this time I moved even further away from him . |
| 16 | This form of ‘ social Darwinism ’ emphasized the destructive capacity of struggle , but drew even more heavily upon pre-Darwinian models of historical development , which had now become fashionable in the age of imperialism . |
| 17 | Finally , Mick ventured even further up the gorge and discovered an excellent roof . |
| 18 | The organisers were disappointed with the total submission figures , however a number of males may have chosen not to submit : the proportion of males decreased and therefore another form of selection occurred even before the formal process . |
| 19 | The improvement occurred even in women more than 10 years postmenopausal and in both ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease . |
| 20 | Worst-hit are clothing and shoe stores where sales crashed even with up to 70 per cent price cuts . |
| 21 | Herd life extended beyond the office out to the organization man 's natural habitat , the suburban community , where he found even watching television was a group activity . |
| 22 | Richard K. Benjamin , now at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in California , and Leland Shanor of Florida University found even more dramatic examples of position specificity in the distributions of Laboulbenia species in carabid beetles . |
| 23 | Given the uniqueness of each individual , and given the gradations and shadings of opinion found even among those who are in broad agreement on a particular issue , representation , even of one person by another , let alone of a group by a single person , must always be approximate and imperfect . |
| 24 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 25 | Charles wandered through the door on to the stage , and found even more evidence . |
| 26 | Milosevic and Gajic ( 1986 ) found even lower recall percentages in a similar study , with between 2% and 20% of drivers correctly identifying the previous sign and never more than 6% of drivers able to correctly identify the sign before last . |
| 27 | The P A G resources , P A G met on Friday , and they found even further savings in the request to keep . |
| 28 | I howled even more when I saw that everyone was laughing at me , Andreas , my mother , various passers by . |
| 29 | And his care , his concern for her made her heart beat even faster . |
| 30 | ‘ You disappoint me , ’ he said under his breath , and Rachel 's heart beat even faster at the darkness in his voice . |