Example sentences of "[conj] even in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre in this explanation should not , as Shils observes , be understood in a geometric sense or even in a geographical sense ; in fact , the term ‘ centre ’ stands for the value systems by which society is ordered and thus may have only the weakest of links with particular concrete manifestations of elite values in politics , economics , culture or other aspects of societal interaction . |
| 2 | Register Office , as for The Rational , but with the following additional extras : parents of bride and groom ( if living ) ; blessing in church afterwards ( if either spouse already divorced , or if neither party can agree on going the whole way in a church wedding ) ; any children born pre-union can also be baptised in a job lot , along with the blessing ; more guests and consequently , bigger knees-up at the couple 's home ( or even in a hired room ; marquees are not supplied with this model ) . |
| 3 | Wild talk of intervention — whether by Hungary , or by a War saw Pact which has somehow redis covered its lost unity , or even in a joint operation with Nato — is merely post-cold war romancing . |
| 4 | Pot up the small young plants as ‘ plugs ’ and grow them on in a frame or a greenhouse — or even in a wooden box covered with polythene . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , the significance of Lukacs 's theory is that even in a post-Stalinist epoch it presents socialist realism as rich in possibilities . |
| 6 | And talking of trends , chic Americans realise that even in a retail recession all things Soviet still make the cash registers ping . |
| 7 | But even in a decentralised company , says Mr Chandler , bigness is better . |
| 8 | But even in a bad year like that one , US production was nearly eight times greater than the Soviet Union 's . |
| 9 | But even in a bad market some firms do better than others . |
| 10 | But even in a dense garden , plants grow old and die and cuttings need to be taken . |