Example sentences of "[conj] even [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , you could arrange a garland or archway of flowers around the words , or even just a rectangular border and still create the designs in each corner . |
| 2 | Physical exercise is becoming known as a valuable tool in treating depression , and if you find that hard to believe just try forcing yourself into a vigorous half hour 's sport , jogging or even just a brisk walk next time you feel low , and note the lift in your mood afterwards . |
| 3 | These might include a number of individual sessions , or a place in an anxiety management group , or even perhaps no further involvement . |
| 4 | Then the best clothes were chosen , none of them the height of fashion nor even necessarily a good fit , but neat , tidy and clean . |
| 5 | This ‘ Imperial city ’ remained virtually intact until the great remodelling which began in the 1950s , and even today the basic outlines of the Emperor 's plan remain . |
| 6 | The tops of ling heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) , produce yet another shade of yellow dye when boiled in water , and in fact that entire plant is wonderfully versatile : it was commonly used for thatching houses , and even today the few Highland thatchers that remain will swear it is the best thatch in Gaeldom ; it provided beds to sleep on , with the ‘ tops up and roots down ’ arrangement of the mattress assuring a pleasantly aromatic and sound sleep ; it was used in part of the process of tanning leather ; and the fresh , young tops of the heather were ( and at times still are ) brewed into a kind of ale . |
| 7 | You see a university has a wide spread of expertise and facilities , which is well beyond the finance of a small company , and even sometimes a larger company , especially when the expertise or facility required is out of the ordinary . |
| 8 | The judges ' first meeting was not held until nearly a fortnight after their appointment , and even then the only business was the election of a chairman . |
| 9 | Yet even when ‘ agitation ’ played a large role , until the 1830s — and even then the traditional view was maintained by an older generation of abolitionists — it was seen as giving strength and support to parliamentary initiatives , backing to ‘ influence ’ over political leaders and entailing deference to the consensus of the leaders of parliamentary antislavery . |
| 10 | And even then the poor moribund critters had to be dropped from a great height to get a satisfactory thump for the sound track . |
| 11 | Only an occasional great congress or conference — such as that of Berlin in 1878 — brought momentarily into existence something palely anticipating the ‘ summit ’ diplomacy of the twentieth century , and even then the major decisions tended to be made before the great men met . |
| 12 | And even then the said imagination must be in some place heavily impregnated with magic , which helps to weaken the walls between the world of the seen and unseen . |
| 13 | The Foreign Office and even more the armed services and intelligence organisations were alarmed at a commitment in the Labour Party election manifesto to reduce spending on defence . |
| 14 | Moreover , the descriptive value of the term ‘ Finlandisation ’ and even more the historical parallel with Finland , as previously observed , are questionable . |
| 15 | ‘ Here and here alone ’ , as E. J. Hobsbawm has put it , ‘ the bourgeois and even more the petit-bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness . ’ |
| 16 | According to this image , somewhere between ten and thirty men came to arrest Jesus — a Jewish functionary or two , some representatives of the High Priest ( one of whom has his ear injured by Simon Peter 's sword ) , presumably a contingent of the Temple guard , perhaps one or more Roman officials and even perhaps a small unit of Pilate 's soldiery . |
| 17 | The reappearance , first and most immediately , of Eanfrith and subsequently of Oswald in Bernician territory at so crucial a moment in the history of the northern Angles could imply military assistance for them from the Picts or the Scots or both and even perhaps a certain ability to act in concert with the British king , Cadwallon . |
| 18 | Flatliners ' little hallucinatory moral dramas of American atonement ( and even perhaps the other ghost movies ) , have their roots in a different gimmick film Field Of Dreams , which turned the social and political divisions of the Sixties into a family affair which could be sorted by Kevin Costner throwing a baseball around with his ghost dad . |
| 19 | But even today an active volcano , Ol Donyo Lengai ( The Mountain of God ) , can darken the sky with violent eruptions , adding new powder to the Serengeti . |
| 20 | The third movement fares rather better , but even here a tougher approach is really needed . |
| 21 | However , the title of this paper restricts reference to developed countries only , but even here the normative suggestions about distortions to prices of factors and outputs ( leading to inappropriate signals to research institutions ) seem to amount to little more than wishful thinking . |
| 22 | But even here the other member of the department interviewed explained that the syllabus was far less prescriptive than it appeared , and that most members of the department interpreted it fairly flexibly . |
| 23 | Only at Tocra has archaeology confirmed a substantial Greek presence in the fifth century , but even here the Persian period is impoverished compared to what went before . |
| 24 | The current Indian election was spread over three days to enable security forces to move from one area to another ; but even so the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are reported to have used musclemen to capture booths in the first round of the election . |
| 25 | Er , but even so the running boards did look very complicated because on one half an hour he 'd probably go and do a Six A run , another one a Six B run , a Two and a Four . |
| 26 | But even so the soft clang rang sharply in the silence and echoed around him as he made his way down the nave . |
| 27 | On a windy day , more care is usually taken , but even then a few moments ' inattention , or the wrong drill , can result in the glider being blown over and written off . |
| 28 | But even then the only player of note Cardiff themselves lost was Mark Ring , and he returned from Pontypool after just a year . |
| 29 | But even then the surviving directors will need sufficient money to buy the shares — at the market rate . |
| 30 | The modern or contemporary quarter of Intolerance would make an excellent film in its own right but even then the industrial scene would only be part of the scene setting and would fade in the memory as the hero passes from scene to scene in the ‘ picaresque ’ fashion of so many movies . |