Example sentences of "[conj] even [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Identifying areas which cry out for improvement or even simply areas of muddle and misunderstanding , is by no means negative — rather a spur to action . |
| 2 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 3 | The activities reserved for persons protected by the Act of 1988 were not exclusively or even predominantly fishing activities . |
| 4 | It is not down to one player or even only Pat Nevin and John Morrissey , it is down to the team . ’ |
| 5 | Modernity is not merely or even supremely capitalism . |
| 6 | She toyed with the idea of Yorkshire or even further south but was persuaded by Louise that it would be a mistake to make Constance change schools at that point , just before her School Certificate examination . |
| 7 | In the short term , Miliband and Poulantzas argue , the dominant class might lose out to reformist political movements , or even genuinely revolution working-class movements , but in the end these attacks on the nature of the capitalism by a reformist and pluralistic state would be defeated due to structural and ideological constraints operating to preserve capitalism . |
| 8 | Nicholas stood stock-still , in a condition of protest , thought or even possibly refusal . |
| 9 | All over Britain you can find places where ancient settlements leave their mark , where legend tells of bizarre events and where even now hauntings are reported . |
| 10 | Chemical apparatus tends to be broken , or reused in new arrangements ; but the historian may hope that even here laboratories may have had capacious cupboards into which unused pieces have been stuffed and thus preserved . |
| 11 | They had known such hunger that even now Olga could not bring herself to throw away a single crumb and always ate whatever was left after a meal . |
| 12 | But that other ‘ landscape ’ , quieter perhaps , but like an underground stream , unconscious and very persistent , never failed to obtrude itself on him : ‘ It is strange that even now prayer is my natural language , ’ he said , in ‘ Lines From My Grandfather 's Journal ’ ( The Spice-Box Of Earth , p10 ) which powerfully reflect his own self-questionings ; the ‘ tyranny ’ was asserting itself . |
| 13 | What I have to recognise by contrast is that even now James Joyce , born a hundred years ago , brings not unity but division , nor does this division merely reflect some such crude opposition as highbrow and lowbrow , or even informed and uninformed . |
| 14 | Each of the component words , who , is , the and girl has variant forms which can be associated with " Creole " or " LE " , as follows : The first version , in line 4 , of who is the girl ? is probably Samuel 's most " London " version , although even here girl is gyal rather than the London gel which Chris uses consistently . |
| 15 | Brothers are more readily excused than sisters , it would seem , although even here Lewis and Meredith report considerable bitterness on the part of carers who felt that their brothers should be playing a more prominent , if minor , role in the care of their parents . |
| 16 | The re-emergence of interest in the potential of education coincided with the development of more effective teaching strategies , and the inclusion of all children within the education system , although even here Ryan and Thomas suggest : |
| 17 | This is envisaged by SGA 1979 , s 12(3) , although even here SGA 1979 , s 12 ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) imply a warranty that the seller has disclosed known encumbrances , and warranties promising no disturbance of quiet possession by the seller or the person on whose behalf he is selling , or by third parties claiming through them ( except by reason of an encumbrance disclosed to the buyer ) . |
| 18 | The restrictions of office life might have formed a permanent barrier to any expression of their feelings for each other , but their relationship had grown appreciably closer when they had both stayed for part of one summer at the home of a friend , Margaret Behrens , in Mentone — although even here Valerie Fletcher still called him " Mr Eliot " . |
| 19 | The model to this point has assumed fixed factor prices , an assumption that might apply to a small open economy ( although even then constancy over time is unlikely ) , but that in a closed economy leaves out of account the general equilibrium effects discussed in earlier Lectures . |
| 20 | And even today hut sections can still be bought and despite the fact that they 're forty years old the quality of the wood in them is often better than what you can buy today . |
| 21 | But , first , you can see the whole stage — and even today houses are being built with seats that have a view of only half the stage ! — and second , it is acoustically marvellous for the audience and the conductor ; for opera and for concerts , especially choral concerts . |
| 22 | For example , it differentiated between the letters i and j , and u and v , which had previously caused confusion and even today transcriptions of ancient documents are being called into question , particularly in the matter of family names . |
| 23 | At this stage , faces are suitable for general study by low power microscopy or for peel preparation ( see Section 4.6 ) , but better results will be obtained by washing and taking through 800F and even 1000F abrasives . |
| 24 | Legislation giving powers , and even sometimes duties , to local government comes into this category . |
| 25 | However , the word ‘ master ’ does not always appear in the name of a postgraduate degree : BPhil , BLitt , LIB , BD and even sometimes BSc can be postgraduate degrees . |
| 26 | This division and those between bigger and smaller clubs , and between east Wales and West Wales , are among the most damaging bequests of a history whose many years of glory occurred despite ( certainly not because of ) native parochialism , introspection and even sometimes indolence . |
| 27 | He has always been very bad about it , which is why he injured himself at Steve Hadley 's yard , and even now John has to dope him before he is clipped . |
| 28 | There does n't seem to be any great love lost between Reed and Harris , and even now Harris says , ‘ Oliver and I have never met but I 'm a great admirer of his . |
| 29 | Only in Saphery , around the White Tower , and by the walls of the mighty fortress city of Lothern were the Dark Elves halted , and even there things looked grim . |
| 30 | The Romans made only tentative essays into building such designs but in the eastern Mediterranean and even further east — in Persia , Iran , Armenia , Syria — Christianity had taken root earlier than in Rome and churches were built of this type from the second century A.D. onwards . |