Example sentences of "even [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questions of authorial intention or even authorial ascription may no longer be paramount within critical inquiry , but discussing texts as cultural documents implies that there is a discernible document , an artefact . |
| 2 | Or even complete ignorance on the Prince 's behalf ? |
| 3 | Arguments , aggression , even complete relationship breakdowns can happen to anyone . |
| 4 | Salvaged church timbers , even complete roof trusses are much in evidence . |
| 5 | Even complete innocence ? |
| 6 | ‘ Yet I have been in the game for two decades , I 've had a number big race successes and I was even stable jockey for Vincent O'Brien for three years . |
| 7 | He was controlling his voice to an even conversational tone , using the endearment sarcastically , as if he found it difficult to disguise the build-up of tension which tightened his jaw . |
| 8 | I shall suggest however that the philosophical framework which allowed the fathers to have a Christology which could be in some way inclusive of women has disappeared ; and moreover that even patristic Christology does not solve the problem . |
| 9 | His phobia had spread to his grooms when Raimundo 's even crueller predecessor had broken the leg of a grey filly , hurling it to the ground for branding , and the following day he had died of snake bite . |
| 10 | She was in a strange land with an even stranger man ! |
| 11 | The issues have formed an even stranger bond between the coal and nuclear industries which were previously in direct competition for shares of the electricity market . |
| 12 | When I saw it , in 1985 , Arette-Pierre-Saint-Martin was far from finished and still , in part , a building site high in the mountains , which is an even stranger spectacle to come across . |
| 13 | After the strange indifference of the police investigators to the results of the polygraph examinations of Tuzcu and O'Neill in Frankfurt , and the even stranger attempt by the FBI to intimidate the ex-Army polygraph expert who had carried them out , Juval Aviv had played no further part in the preparation of Pan Am 's defence . |
| 14 | It stems , therefore , from something primitive and far removed from almost everything else in the Old Testament , with the exception of an even stranger tale in Exodus 4.24–6 . |
| 15 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 16 | Far too often those in authority expect others to obey and so use formal and even terse language when penning memos . |
| 17 | Depending , as Dufferin had so clearly perceived , for their ability to govern on the collaboration of a vast class of petty native fonctionnaires , and the political apathy of an even vaster class of ignorant peasants , they could in no way afford to see these people aroused to insubordination , even of an ostensibly peaceful kind . |
| 18 | Popular , and indeed even professional psychology , has come freely to deploy the concept of aggression in accounts of interactions between human beings . |
| 19 | A disconcerting , even shameful thought had taken possession . |
| 20 | Small invertebrates such as polycheate worms , shrimps and other crustaceans are also fair game for most invertebrate feeders and some of the more cosmopolitan species such as boxfish , puffers and triggerfish have an appetite which may extend to shelled molluscs , fanworms and even spiny sea urchins . |
| 21 | Will Jeff Koons do for Sgarbi what he did for that other member of the Italian Parliament , the even nuder Cicciolina ? |
| 22 | However , we can say that even historic cost accounting , in times of rising prices , does provide some indication of the extent to which capital might have been eroded or maintained , which as we have suggested earlier is potentially useful information . |
| 23 | In much the same way implicit or explicit models for describing the evolution of stream channels or drainage basins commonly are used to make simplifying assumptions that eliminate considerations of time , history and sometimes even progressive change . ’ |
| 24 | So I had to assume , among the flowers , the innocent birds and trees , an even falser nobility . |
| 25 | Since , however , those who carry out surveys of this kind are seldom able to control their sources , even cleverly-designed trick questions may fail to yield anything but superficial or ambiguous results . |
| 26 | But again this is not necessarily the case since the nature of national and local labour markets and their degree of integration within national or collective bargaining frameworks might well produce a relatively even spatial distribution of wage rates . |
| 27 | One interpretation of the intermittent energy which Joseph Sturge put into the free produce movement in the 1840s is that it constituted an attempt by a Friend who had launched out into public and even political life to maintain links with more traditionally quietist brethren who none the less looked for greater perfection in the world . |
| 28 | Like most other oppressive systems , apartheid education has had an impact on individuals , families and communities which goes beyond economic disadvantage and even political disenfranchisement . |
| 29 | Centuries before the first holidaymakers stepped on to the county 's beaches , men were hewing hard rock , deep underground , to extract the ores that brought wealth , and from time to time even political influence , to their remote , windswept peninsula . |
| 30 | When Mammon leads the blind into decisions that are governed by ignorance , vanity , nepotism and even political discretion , no artist submitting work for any prize should be cast down by failure ; no artist with any self respect should be elated by success . |