Example sentences of "[subord] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 2 | Jay had taken her camera to photo the leather-bound treasures of the seventeenth century , where even the language was rounded in sepia sworls , respectful of rhythm , season , nature and wholeness . |
| 3 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 4 | Small wonder that scientists are searching for every lower temperatures , nearer still to absolute zero , where even more mysterious effects may be waiting . |
| 5 | In a competition renowned for its ferocity , where even forwards can be burned out in their twenties , a 35-year-old winger is most unusual . |
| 6 | Art prices have now spiralled to the point , it was suggested , where even a collector of Charles Saatchi 's great wealth can no longer afford to buy without selling . |
| 7 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 8 | How can Darby O'Gill be dismissed as superstitious nonsense when it is part descriptive of a society where even now devotional queues are forming to watch supposedly moving statues . |
| 9 | Most of the city is covered by conservation areas , so it is asking for special controls on large swathes where even single signs would detract from the historic appearance . |
| 10 | Food is short but surveillance ample in the frozen domain of Zero One Erlend Clouston explores the nightmare world of Ceausescu 's Romania , where even the ashtrays are thought to have ears . |
| 11 | The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter . |
| 12 | Thus in an extraordinary manner the physical manifestation of a woman 's fertility which had always been welcome and extolled in ancient and traditional Hindu society , where even mother earth was conceived to be menstruating in the beginning of the rainy season , came to be associated with a sin.s |
| 13 | How odd it must feel to be a stranger in an alien country , where even the faces on the stamps had no meaning . |
| 14 | One arrives early in the morning at an airport , where even those who have disobeyed the injunction to label themselves and their luggage with the travel company 's name are unerringly identified by a courier with a clipboard . |
| 15 | With the exception of the astronauts who visited the Moon , space travellers do not go beyond low-Earth orbit , where even the attenuated magnetic field and atmosphere provide some protection from radiation . |
| 16 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 17 | He made the players feel they belonged to a great club , where even playing in the reserves was all part of an important and worthwhile enterprise . |
| 18 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 19 | crowded rooms Where even our eyes ca n't |
| 20 | ‘ He might not stand out so much in North America , where even the garbage collector appears on TV and talks with confidence , but in Britain this is something different . ’ |
| 21 | Of course this is a work where even Karajan 's detractors can only suspend prejudice in the face of his two superlative versions on DG , but Rostropovich communicates a sense of stark yet searing tragedy which makes his performance , of the first movement in particular , very special . |
| 22 | I once knew a Yorkshire terrier where even the word ‘ walkies , sent him into gyrations of joyous bouncing and tail wagging . |
| 23 | where even bedsit heroes come shrink wrapped |
| 24 | And now Toni lives in Magaluf — once a tiny village where even islanders rarely visited , now a sprawling mess of neon , curry burgers and chips , the Benny Hill and Linekers bars , and holidaying Brits drunk in charge of a limited vocabulary . |
| 25 | A NEW book , Organised Obsessions : 1001 Offbeat Associations , Fan Clubs and Microsocieties You Can Join , lists hundreds of groups where even folks with the most unusual interests can find kindred spirits . |
| 26 | This was n't any alien habitat , where even geometry might be twisted out of shape . |
| 27 | There are others , however , where even after centuries of use this matching is not obviously satisfactory , for example violin playing would seem to be posturally a disaster , but there may be some subtle aids to very precise control of the sound generated in having the source of sound very close to the ear and perhaps some vibration transmission by the direct contact of this instrument and the jawbone . |
| 28 | Where even these devices prove insufficient to ensure subservience , there is ample reserve of armed force to do so , both within the satellites and in the USSR itself . |
| 29 | He was offered little support as he walked the edge between the endowment , its critics , the art world and Congress , where even supporters of the arts were reluctant to go on record as voting ‘ for tax-funded pornography ’ . |
| 30 | He has been established as a prose-character in the first scene at Achilles ' tent ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ) , where even Agamemnon addressed him in prose , by the law of adaptation to the lower centre of gravity . |