Example sentences of "[adj] or even [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres .
2 But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al .
3 Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client .
4 With the reduction in content required to keep them infallible , it seems unlikely that any interesting beliefs about the past , the future , the unobserved or even the present material surroundings could ever be justified by appeal to the basic .
5 From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch
6 I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter .
7 Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control .
8 The test is not what the defendants contemplated as a likely or even an inevitable consequence of their conduct ; it is ‘ what is in truth the object in the minds of the combiners when they acted as they did ? ’
9 Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion .
10 Indeed Theodore Roosevelt was suggesting before 1914 that , if the British Empire faltered and was unable to preserve a global balance of power which was compatible with American interests , the United States might have to take an equal or even the leading role in world affairs .
11 Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people .
12 This does not , however , prove that the exclusive or even the main purpose of the decree was religious , i.e. not political or economic .
13 It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock .
14 It is , therefore , sometimes a little difficult to keep up-to-date , for although what is found may not be in the area being researched by the local historian concerned , it may , nonetheless , have a bearing , for the style of housing suggested for one place may be typical of that formerly existing in another , ten or even a hundred miles away .
15 ( The ability to make statements without indicating status , which Lyons attributes to English , is not , of course , the only or even the major way in which abstract and neutral meanings can be formulated . )
16 But red tape is not the only or even the main problem .
17 Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance .
18 We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure .
19 Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation .
20 Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull .
21 Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in .
22 Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed .
23 This therefore implies a sort of traumatic stratigraphy with major events , such as transgressions , virtually synchronous on a continent-wide or even a world-wide scale .
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