Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 2 | Enterprise democracy , that is , was presented as the complement to social planning of investment at a national or even supra-national level . |
| 3 | In other words it is a part of the larger and even more complex issue of the relevance of current cost accounting . |
| 4 | I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature . |
| 5 | Most customers come by car , and do their shopping on a weekly or even monthly basis , so hypermarkets have large car parks . |
| 6 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 7 | ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’ |
| 8 | In many cases the choice can be made much later , at the beginning of the second or even third year . |
| 9 | Previous issues from November 1990 to the last edition show that the major features have been on Gabby and Steffi , Zvereva and Martina and Monica , Capriati and Monica , Anke , Jana Novotna and Arantxa respectively , evidence of a fair and even representation of all women players by Tennis World . |
| 10 | This large and important group of plants is represented today by a mere four genera of humble herbaceous plants — Lycopodium , Selaginella , Isoetes and Phylloglossum — living fossils which have survived with little change from the Mesozoic or even the Carboniferous . |
| 11 | It is finding that the phrase ‘ equal opportunity ’ is usually a meaningless compromise ; if the good things of life are really dependent on opportunity — which everyone knows they are not ; would the rich and powerful really be so careless ? — what human agency has the hubris to imagine it can deal out opportunity in a fair or even meritorious fashion ? |
| 12 | It seems that the system of central planning , adopted after the Communist Party took power in 1948 , did bring some economic progress in the 1950s and even into the 1960s . |
| 13 | The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town , but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture . |
| 14 | For instance , family centres may take many forms , from a primary developmental role to an institutional or even a residual one , providing supplementary care , teaching parents better parenting , monitoring children 's progress and providing increased professional surveillance of vulnerable and disadvantaged families . |
| 15 | When models are constructed from such premisses , for example , there is a tendency to view government as a restrictive and even as a repressive agency . |
| 16 | A fair deal for youth is what is advocated , informed by a recognition of the ease with which boisterous youthful energy can make itself objectionable and even dangerous to others , linked to the necessity of not allowing its troublesome character to dull the awareness of the natural and even positive qualities of youthful misconduct . |
| 17 | The office of president had been discredited and the balance of power in the political system had shifted in favour of a revived and even more inchoate congress . |
| 18 | This was to be a problem which plagued the Soviet government throughout the 1920s and even today remains a problem of the first magnitude . |
| 19 | It can be disconcerting at auction if the vendor or agents acting on the vendor 's behalf bid up the price from the floor in the early or even later stages of the auction . |
| 20 | It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock . |
| 21 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 22 | Indeed , there was such a degree of integration between the two that even modern Spain retains a powerful element of Orientalism within its cultural makeup . |
| 23 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 24 | Indeed , there is a danger that , in the very attempt to entertain its public , a museum may well be tempted to treat its subject matter in a superficial and even frivolous way . |
| 25 | Always lay the rug on a flat and even surface , and after smoothing it out , carefully view it from all sides to see if there are any ridges or troughs . |
| 26 | Prevention meant to Posidonius moderate use of power , responsible treatment of the poor and even of the slaves . |
| 27 | Lightweight leather boots had been creeping into the market since the 1970s or even earlier , but were not made using the new technology . |