Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] even the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable . |
| 2 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |
| 3 | The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors . |
| 4 | In this sense , animals ( and we might add primitive peoples and even the environment ) are sui generis ; they are perfect of their kind . |
| 5 | For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself . |
| 6 | There was no food but coarse grass and even the grass was mixed with bitter rushes and docks . |
| 7 | A year of continuous musical training at a conservatoire and she would be fit for a top orchestra or even the concert platform . |
| 8 | 9.2 Party walls The internal non-load bearing walls that divide the Premises from the adjoining units in the Centre and from the Retained Parts shall be deemed to be party walls within the meaning of the Law of Property Act 1925 section 38 and shall be maintained at the equally shared expense of the Tenant and the other respective estate owners As the footnote to the precedent states , the object of this provision is that the tenant and the adjoining estate owner ( who could be either another tenant or even the landlord ) will share the responsibility for the internal divisional walls . |
| 9 | Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity . |
| 10 | These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists . |
| 11 | The submissive spouse or even the martyr may be giving rein in an oblique way to a desire for mental or physical pain . |
| 12 | She brought a pile of cards that the children had made , using brightly-coloured paper and even the glitter tubes rationed out at Christmas . |
| 13 | CCETSW has outdone SSDs in attracting more resources and has printed more forgettable publications than even the VAT office . |
| 14 | A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Mixing aggression with an improved defensive technique , Hick reached 50 from just 79 balls and even the loss of Atherton and Richard Blakey in quick succession , leaving the innings in ruins once again , did not faze him . |
| 16 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 17 | Between 1346 and 1348 , and again , after the visitation of the Black Death , between 1356 and 1358 , the people of Reims completed the construction of their city 's defence , with the gratifying effect that even the king of England , Edward III himself , could not force an entry in the early winter of 1359–60 . |
| 18 | For some people ‘ appraisal ’ smacks too much of an excessively rigid method which could involve unfair disciplining or even the sack . |
| 19 | Alan Charig , of London University , also says that no allowance has been made for differing life-spans or even the palatability of the different dead animals , nor for the robustness of fossilized skeletons , nor the latitude at which fossils have been found . |
| 20 | The fun comes when you want to produce real publications with mixed text and graphics , multiple fonts and even the possibility of scanned photographs or colour separations . |
| 21 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His personal standing is the lowest recorded for a Prime Minister and even the flow of funds from the party faithful is drying up under his faltering leadership . |
| 24 | At the same time , disputes between France and the rest over institutional , political and economic plans grew to the extent where they called into question not just the desirability and possibility of the ultimate goal of political union , but also the current shape and even the viability of the Community . |
| 25 | In European terms the whole of the United Kingdom may be considered as a peripheral region and even the South East has relatively under-developed links with the Continent . |
| 26 | True the archivist dealing with assorted disks from the 1970s office or even the politician 's word processor will leave detailed markup to others , but the demands of producing simple headers seems very relevant here ( Burnard 1993 ) . |
| 27 | Between the farmhouse mob and the purveyors of alcoholic lemonade is a hinterland inhabited by giants such as Dixie of Bristol , who used to travel West Country fairs selling his wares from a thatched Ford Transit van ; and Dunkertons which produces subtle , bright and preservative-free ciders that even the Boy Nigel admits are like the real thing , only better . |
| 28 | He was anxious to offer his advice , reasonably and concisely , to the ‘ generality ’ so that the average small gardener and even the collector of herbs might all have their ‘ Miller ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Looking after ’ their workers most definitely does not mean paying higher than the prevailing rate of wages , but it does imply a genuine concern for their employees ' welfare ( including help with personal and domestic problems ) , the provision of decent housing facilities and frequent individual acts of generosity like small gifts on family birthdays and at Christmas , the allowance of various perquisites and even the provision of occasional ‘ treats ’ like harvest suppers and days out at local agricultural shows . |
| 30 | ‘ I could n't bear all the familiar landscapes and even the sight of the park . ’ |