Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] even a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 2 | Whether for an hour or even a full day , once you step on board it 's all hands on deck as crew members don their lifejackets and take to the seas in the adventure of a lifetime . |
| 3 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
| 4 | And there clearly are situations in which the collective opinion of a majority or even a dominant minority puts an unacceptable and sometimes intolerable pressure on the dissenting or deviant minority or individual . |
| 5 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 6 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 7 | Tropical species often use open sites , under a branch or even a large leaf . |
| 8 | Best of all were the knitted patchwork fragments , lash-stitched together as a coat , a skirt or even a zip-fronted poncho . |
| 9 | Do not underestimate the effect that even a small operation has on your body and your nervous system . |
| 10 | When they reach the borders of their territory , they take a few steps with lowered hindquarters so that long grass passing between their back legs rubs against this gland and acquires a smell that even a human nose can easily detect . |
| 11 | They will then start all over again and go round the cockpit a second or even a third time . |
| 12 | Their rarity has led to the suggestion by Briscoe that the majority were made of a less durable material such as wood or even a soft stone such as chalk . |
| 13 | The facilities offered by this fine hotel range from a choice of restaurants and bars to a shopping village and even a resident tennis coach . |
| 14 | Where possible , fieldworkers attempted to record a male and a female at each address , and since very often both were not at home at the time of the first visit , a second and even a third visit was arranged to most addresses . |
| 15 | The new name is in part a combination of the names of the two predecessor institutes , but it also reflects a wider European and even a global interest in pursuing excellence in management . |
| 16 | Now , in her prime years , she was treated with respect , deference and even a little awe . |
| 17 | Biggerstaff 's Metro 6R4 suffered a puncture on his first run but even a courageous charge at the second attempt could n't displace Woodside at the top of the list . |
| 18 | Travel companies will arrange weddings which include the ceremony , the cake , flowers , buttonholes , photographer and even a best man if necessary , in places like the Seychelles or the Caribbean . |
| 19 | And its feminist interests in social relations link it with disciplines like sociology and history , making it more interdisciplinary than most psychology , maintaining its hopes for change and even a complete paradigm shift in the discipline ( e.g. Parlee 1979 , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 21 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 22 | So flowers keep their nectar behind locks to which only a small group or even a single species has the key , which is of such a specialised design that its owner finds it difficult if not impossible to use on any other flower . |
| 23 | However I do n't have a rugby-related job nor even a rugby-related car . |
| 24 | It provides a near-fatal argument against conventionalism as even a decent interpretation of our practice . |
| 25 | ( b ) Separate practice The decision must be taken as to whether the business of a new office is to be integrated with that of the main office or whether it is to be run ( or the extent to which it is to be run ) as a separate , self-financing enterprise or even a separate partnership but using the same firm-name . |
| 26 | The next time that you have something to celebrate — a new baby , a new wife or even a new government — try a bottle of one of this month 's winning wines , you wo n't be disappointed . |
| 27 | Perhaps it will be suggested that there is an incoherence in setting out to have partly false beliefs , but that there is no similar incoherence in setting out to have emotional conflict and even a certain amount of chaos in one 's behaviour . |
| 28 | He had thought he could look at a picture of Wyvis Hall , a photograph he had taken himself with a cheap camera Zosie had stolen , with equanimity and even a rueful amusement , but it appeared he could not . |
| 29 | Farm workers are usually the last to receive the protection of safety legislation , for example , or to receive benefits like sickness pay , pension schemes , paid holidays , a five-day week or even a written contract of employment and itemized pay packets . |
| 30 | Try it with a spicy stew or even a traditional roast . |