Example sentences of "[conj] even [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common . |
| 2 | Each barcode , on a can of baked beans , a packet of biscuits , or even on the back of TODAY newspaper , is worth a different number of energy points . |
| 3 | Both these plants are hardy and although not in the front rank of ornamentals , are worth growing in a large border or even on the bank of a stream or lake provided they are kept away from the wet margin . |
| 4 | It provides a way of helping to dismantle and correct oversimplified explanations where generalisations have been made from particular cases — or even on the basis of a single example — which clearly will not stand up to broader comparative investigation . |
| 5 | Not everyone proved to be a persistent reader of one paper ( or even of a group of similar papers ) but the majority did . |
| 6 | Doubt is not primarily a question of particular faiths ( Should I believe this one or that one ? ) or even of the strength of faith ( Do I really believe this one or that one ? ) . |
| 7 | Getting away for the weekend , or even for a day of walking , is the ideal cure for those post-summer-oh-my-God-how-can-I-afford-Christmas blues . |
| 8 | Their use is also envisaged to evaluate a particular teaching approach , or even for the appraisal of individual teachers . |
| 9 | Some hon. Members believe that the Tories have got themselves into a spot of bother in Scotland , and we are not referring to the occasional by-election disaster such as occurred in Kincardine and Deeside recently , or even to the reduction of Scottish Tory representation in the House to the completely inadequate level of nine . |
| 10 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 11 | The battle of Sentinum was the natural prelude to the battle of Pydna — or even to the destruction of Corinth and the Social War . |
| 12 | Some of the larger local authorities , as we have seen , are now appointing specialist advisers to the chief executive 's office , or even to the leader of the council , who can give advice divorced from the service-providing departments , but such posts are few and regarded with some suspicion by mainstream local government officers . |
| 13 | To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function . |
| 14 | By a visit to a doctor , a psychiatrist , or even through a programme of counselling and guidance , mental illnesses can be cured , and almost always are . |
| 15 | Similarly , cosmetic surgery is seen in the professional literature as an option ( some parents choose it , some do n't ) , or even as a kind of cure , especially by the surgeons contracted to perform it , whose understanding of the issues extends as far as the principle that if people see a physically normal child they will react to it ‘ normally ’ and will elicit normal behaviour . |
| 16 | Citizenship should , it is suggested , be regarded not only as a burden , or even as a set of rights or entitlements , but also as an opportunity for self-fulfilment and a reciprocal relationship between citizens and the state . |
| 17 | For ‘ real polises ’ there is a rarely articulated awareness that this ambiguity can always turn in on itself and be used for good or evil , or even as an instrument of oppression or release . |
| 18 | In their unconscious , they have achieved their wish to have sexual relations with the parent of the opposite sex , or even with the parent of the same sex . |
| 19 | In the higher dales haymaking was sometimes delayed , for weather and other reasons , until the middle of July or even towards the end of August . |
| 20 | Powell had no argument with the principle of starting a magazine , or even over the amount of money it would cost , but he felt that Branson was treading on sensitive political ground in attempting to take advantage of somebody else 's industrial dispute . |
| 21 | Indeed , young people have the right to approach the youth department for assistance without needing the mediation of other adults or even without the consent of the parents ( although the subsequent intervention by the youth department requires parental consent ) , and the youth department in turn is obliged to consult young people in the development of new initiatives . |
| 22 | The object was to prevent takeover by a rival paper , or even by a consortium of people opposed to NoS and its politics which might try to build up a majority shareholding . |
| 23 | Suspense does not need to be created by violence or even by the threat of explicit violence . |
| 24 | The accidental loss or destruction of a will has no effect upon its validity , and its contents may be proved by the production of copies or drafts , or even by the recollection of persons who have seen it or heard it read . |
| 25 | At the other end of the scale one finds the hard pressed teacher or headmaster , besieged by parents , yet limited to a certain class size by government regulation ( or even by the number of spaces in his register page ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Naturally , if there are legal proceeds , you may be required to testify as a witness here , or even in a court of law . ’ |
| 27 | Similarity of sequence in learning does not , however , imply similarity in rate of learning , or even in the level of mastery ultimately attained . |
| 28 | In a painting such as the Female Figure , executed in the winter of 1910–11 , the subject is still much more easily recognizable than it had been in Picasso 's Cadaquès work , or even in the Portrait of Kahnweiler . |
| 29 | The specific individuality of the species does not appear in their molecules or cells or even in the ability of the cells to communicate with each other during development or in adult life . |
| 30 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |