Example sentences of "[coord] even [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They argued that although sabotage is usually regarded as irrational or even pathological behaviour , careful investigation shows that ‘ in many cases the meanings which inform sabotage are explicitly intentional ’ . |
2 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
3 | Jane smiled cheerfully , so that he thought she was being charitable , or even contemptuous , and he looked down at his hands . |
4 | You know , one week go out with red the next week go out with pink , pink , bright pink or even blonde . |
5 | It was not considered an easy or even feasible task to prove this relationship , but the North East CAB area policy comment sub-committee nevertheless launched a pilot study . |
6 | The point is not merely that decisions about the day to day operation of the business or even long-term strategy have been taken out of the shareholders ' hands — this is the intended , central advantage of the corporate form — but that the shareholders are no longer able to shape the purpose for which the business is run , that is , they are unable to oblige management to maximise profits . |
7 | Others who do not feel loved frequently become very insular , or create situations which cause others to feel sorry for them , or even guilty . |
8 | It may be suggested that we were inconsistent , or even guilty of unreasonable discrimination , in that we insisted on assessment in English in England for pupils whose mother tongue is not English , whereas in Wales we recommended that pupils being taught through the medium of Welsh be exempted from the key stage 1 attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment . |
9 | So , if multimedia is going to get established in other than the very long term , it is more likely to be delivered by a low cost stand-alone system such as CDTV , CD-I or even DVI , if a low cost dedicated player can be devised . |
10 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
11 | Cinema may come more naturally to driven Americans , bustling Italians or even philosophically-minded Frenchmen but , when British filmmakers actually confront their national inhibitions , amazing things do happen . |
12 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
13 | From the point of view of the banker or shareholder these may seem to be not unreasonable or even undesirable limitations . |
14 | Modern amplifiers may have distortion levels as low as 80dB below fundamental , or even lower . |
15 | The activity obtained at an intermediate ionic strength ( 70 mM ammonium sulphate ) was about 80% of that observed at the lowest concentration used ( 20 mM ) , a situation in which the activity of P A2b in linear templates was of about 10% if the initiating NTPs were present or even lower in their absence . |
16 | However , the under 20 age group includes 18–19-year-old mothers whose children , under conditions of relatively low levels of overall infant mortality , have about the same low , or even lower , risk of dying during the first year of life as those born to women in the age group 25–29 years and face a much lower risk than those born to mothers below 18 years of age . |
17 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
18 | Are they solely to do with consciousness ( in so far as they relate to ontological stakes or emotional investments in racist ideology which may be pre- or even un-conscious ) ? |
19 | However , it should also be pointed out that the ‘ boss ’ view of headship manifested itself in a continuum of behaviour ranging from the clubbable to the autocratic or even tyrannical , with various shades of paternalism/maternalism in between . |
20 | Not all widely used and quoted statistics come from governmental , or even quasi-governmental sources . |
21 | A ‘ description-prediction ’ approach , based on metaphor , or the use of heuristic techniques without theoretical under-pinning , may produce highly approximate , or even inaccurate predictions . |
22 | Most of the St Joseph 's boys and girls finished everything on their plates — and went back for seconds or even thirds . |
23 | If the glider is tipped by a gust it may be difficult , or even impossible , to stop it drifting to one side . |
24 | Other methods such as transferring the employee , restructuring the job and firing the person tend to be last resort tactics and in certain circumstances can be hard , or even impossible to implement . |
25 | In outpatients , on the other hand , the therapist has more control ; at home patients can , if they wish , arrange distractions which make treatment difficult or even impossible . |
26 | The presence of the therapist can encourage partners to express their anxieties , needs , and wishes to each other , whereas previously they may have found this extremely difficult or even impossible . |
27 | Old Age thinking — along with most forms of psychotherapy — suggests that change is inevitably slow and painful , or even impossible . |
28 | You have to try to relax , which some people find very difficult or even impossible . |
29 | Less controversial , are applications where robots are undertaking tasks which would be impractical or even impossible for humans . |
30 | If someone 's performance is not up to the standards set by the injunctions , no allowances are made , even if they are doing their best to cope with severe or even impossible demands . |