Example sentences of "[conj] even a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have had patients who were so badly affected that they could not travel in any enclosed vehicle — car , bus or train — had to leave the bathroom door open while they bathed , could not enter a cinema , theatre or even a small local shop . |
| 2 | Doors can be solid wood , such as oak , pine , cherry , or maple , for example , or they can be white ash or limed oak veneer , or even a hard-wearing laminate finish . |
| 3 | Was it really Guru Nanak 's intention to found a new religion , or even a new religious community ? |
| 4 | Have they become a ruling elite or even a new ruling class ? |
| 5 | If you want a growth-type investment , such as I do n't know , Far Eastern fund , or something like that , or a , or even a European Special Situations , you n you , you might as well not use the P E P because they wh you get about one percent on er a growth P E P . |
| 6 | the seams , however , neat , will be improved by a deliberate decoration , for example , some matching bought braid , a long plait which could end in a tassel at the floor end , or a further narrow piece of matching Fair Isle or even a different woven pattern , stitched on to conceal the join . |
| 7 | Speak to a Kenyan distance runner in the high hills of the Rift Valley , a Bulgarian hurdler , a Soviet pole vaulter or even a Chinese high jumper and though they may not understand a word of what you are saying , when you utter the words ‘ Andy Norman ’ lights will shine in eyes and heads will nod in recognition and they will search , sometimes desperately , for an interpreter . |
| 8 | This might be a fixed length pipeline , or even a single sequential processor . |
| 9 | The work of a senior local government officer is , therefore , far broader than the confines of a single department or even a single local authority . |
| 10 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ For management data it 's no good having a five , six or even a 20 dimensional database , ’ he says , ‘ because that 's not the way data works . |
| 12 | It is clear that even a good working knowledge of credit costs helps consumers only if that knowledge affects their shopping decisions . |
| 13 | Rather more perceptive ( I felt ) was an article in The Independent , a London newspaper , which said that even a serious scientific book like A Brief History of Time could become a cult book . |
| 14 | But the National government was locked on course for appeasement and , with the parliamentary majority which it enjoyed , there seems little doubt that even a powerful political campaign by the Labour Party , in league with other anti-fascist groups , could have changed its policies . |
| 15 | No registration is required , and even a mere oral agreement would suffice at law . |
| 16 | This had long been the LRDG 's main base with clear water and even a few European houses . |
| 17 | In the shade beneath them pigs , dogs , domestic fowls , horses and even a few ancient buffalos swarmed in a stinking congregation . |
| 18 | There were a few obvious English tourists , but even more elderly Italians , and even a few young couples , as if it were the fashionable thing to do . |
| 19 | These are just some of the simple questions which , if asked , can prevent novice desktop publishers , and even a few older hands , from making fundamental errors . |
| 20 | There was a handful of verminous women , too , and even a few sickly children . |
| 21 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 22 | Some of the grander ideas have envisaged an all-embracing law of the environment , an entirely new international environmental protection agency and even a special environmental security council . |
| 23 | They form part of a Law and Order exhibition which extends to stocks , manacles , handcuffs , and even a giant magnifying glass . |
| 24 | Along with the 480 watt machine comes an adjustable fence , wrenches , straight and curved guides , template guide , and even a free straight cutter . |
| 25 | From her West End flat , Zarina offered a sizzling floor show with her teenage pal which included topless dancing , striptease and even a lesbian double act . |
| 26 | There 's always a risk it may be hijacked but even a minimal military force accompanying it would warn the Serbs that the West meant business . |
| 27 | This is because even a so-called tangible asset represents not so much a physical item as the rights to use that physical item , which in turn derive from ownership or other rights . |
| 28 | This was as well , for even a single light raid would have reduced the flimsy huts to matchwood . |
| 29 | But the tide must have turned when even a big commercial panto like this at the Manchester Palace — one of 21 that Paul Elliott is producing this year — rediscovers its roots in traditional storytelling . |