Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many local markets to explore , usually held weekly or sometimes even daily . |
| 2 | ‘ Guide dogs are trained not to pick up such morsels because they may eat something unpleasant or possibly even dangerous . |
| 3 | I mean about ten pound is the cheapest and perhaps even twelve . |
| 4 | Hatred of the father expresses itself not only in obvious antagonistic behaviour directed at all representatives of paternal restraint , but also in more devious and perhaps even ‘ sublimated ’ ways as a distaste for all restraints of any kind and an opposition to authority of any sort . |
| 5 | Another and perhaps even more striking example of the undesirability of the practice can be found in the case of Woolwich Equitable Building Society v. IRC where the finance Act 1985 had included sections enabling the Inland Revenue to make regulations for the payment by building societies of tax on ‘ such sums as may be determined in accordance with regulations ’ and went on to provide that any such regulations might contain ‘ such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Board to be appropriate ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew how to be assertive and perhaps even then I wanted there to be distance between us , ’ she says . |
| 7 | That is , if observation provides us with a secure set of observation statements as our starting-point ( an assumption that we have granted for the sake of the argument of this chapter ) , why is it that inductive reasoning leads to reliable and perhaps even true scientific knowledge ? |
| 8 | Precisely what this means is not clear because presumably even in a socialist state it would have a necessary function in maintaining law and order . |
| 9 | His living was opulent , colourful and apparently even honest . |
| 10 | For if the station is seen as cathedral or chapel , it can also be seen to possess in its heyday a Bible every bit as imposing and sometimes even as impenetrable as the Authorized Version ( Bradshaw ) , incense ( steam ) , and liturgical chanting ( ‘ The train now standing at platform 3 is … ’ , |
| 11 | There 's also this thing which is called agricultural fundamentalism right and the most developing c , most developed countries , most of the population live in urban areas and the they see erm er rural areas as being sort of the backbone of society , sort of the salt of the earth type of element in society that although they do n't participate in themselves would like to maintain right and so even consumers may well be would not want see erm agriculture obliterated from er , from their country right because they like the products that erm that agriculture produces and they think that you can of erm destroying of the agricultural industry would , would pose an unacceptable burden on the fabric of rural society and as a result are quite happy to see protectionism er fo , for that industry . |
| 12 | Are n't people like yourselves being a little bit presumptuous and perhaps even arrogant in feeling that you can help people solve their problems in the rest of the world . |
| 13 | Feral goats have inhibited the island of 150 square kilometres for at least 100 years , but unlike the exploding colonies of goats in some of the Galapagos Islands , the Aldabra goats have remained stable and perhaps even declined in recent years . |
| 14 | On the other hand , a string of national bodies seems undesirable and perhaps even unnecessary . |
| 15 | In some cases local authorities have even set up their own associations to deal with this , although since many housing associations are organized on a regional and increasingly even a national basis , local input is likely to diminish over time . |
| 16 | Even given this complicating variability in pH levels , researchers have suggested that human activities have caused a dramatic increase in the acidity of precipitation at local , regional and perhaps even global scales ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | Some ( especially readers in Europe and America ) will find it idiosyncratic and perhaps even objectionable , but I believe that it is consistent with the work of a small forum of English reviewers , scholars and performers whose work will be discussed in due course below . |
| 18 | Mr Mansell Griffiths , a consultant ENT surgeon , says : ‘ Robotic surgery will be considered by a large body of practising surgeons as unacceptable , wholly impractical and perhaps even unethical . |
| 19 | Harris goes on : ‘ This is roughly how I feel this morning contemplating my future career as a political columnist : 1,200 words a week , week in , week out , stretching into the 14th , 15th , 16th , 17th and maybe even — God preserve us — the 18th successive years of Conservative rule … |
| 20 | I suggested that you experiment in order to find out how to gain the finest and most even line possible . |
| 21 | Most of us have experienced the moments of intuition when we " grasp " a broad and sometimes even global concept from a minimum of hints or indications , and know the excitement of such occasions . |
| 22 | The more rapid growth of southern Britain is the longest established and apparently most intractable of the geographical shifts taking place in the 1980s , seemingly being treated as inevitable or indeed even desirable by the contemporary Conservative Government . |
| 23 | Differences between disciplines are not , of course , hard and fast even though , at times , they can become crucial . |
| 24 | Also , in Deanos support , He does work hard and effectively even when he s not scoring . |
| 25 | There seems to be absolutely no evidence in favour of this second , crucial assumption ( nor is there evidence against ; the issue is remarkably unresearched and rarely even regarded as worth discussing ; see Mays and Bevan , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Halpern ( 1986 ) derides their apparent conviction that ‘ it is frightening and perhaps even unAmerican to consider the possibility that even a small part of the sex differences in spatial abilities ( or any cognitive ability ) , may be attributed to biological factors ’ ( 1986 : 1014 ) . |
| 27 | The wood is lustrous and fragrant ; the texture is fine and very even . |
| 28 | It seems evident from the widespread popularity of the enactment of the hunt that simple timber arenas were provided in all large and probably even in small settlements , for they were part of the activities at the seasonal festivals . |
| 29 | If the merchandise is valuable and indeed even if it is not , there could also be a problem of pilferage . |
| 30 | Such personalized gender biases are less obvious and therefore even more difficult for feminists to deal with than those in conventional psychological method . |