Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Taylor goes on to point out , there are cogent and even forbidding explanations for the apparent neglect . |
| 2 | Whipped Cream are Scandinavian but even the odd accent does n't drag this version far enough from the original to make it an interpretation rather than a facsimile . |
| 3 | It is not that most of the people of southern Ireland are supportive or even tolerant of the terrorists . |
| 4 | ‘ They will tell neighbours they are pregnant and even visit doctors with fake symptoms . |
| 5 | Country houses that have lost their contents and are empty and even abandoned . |
| 6 | Scuba diving courses are popular and even snorkelers will see a wide range of unusual creatures , such as flying fish , sea-horses , sword and hammer fish in these deep blue waters . |
| 7 | To be sure , the philosophical bases of these tendencies are distinct and even opposed . |
| 8 | Trim the edges so they are straight and even , and cut the strip so that it measures the circumference of the cake . |
| 9 | However , his opponents are convinced that even in true-blue East Hampshire Tory popularity is on the wane . |
| 10 | Only the tips of the radial shields are visible and even then they may carry spinelets . |
| 11 | It 's quite commonly said that twenty years ago the universities and colleges decided to treat students as adults and leave them to organise their own affairs erm and the argument about what to do in this area is n't an argument about whether it 's a serious problem , but about what are appropriate and even effective forms of intervention . |
| 12 | Even if paintings are unpopular or even if people think they are bad paintings for a while , they 're useful for art students . |
| 13 | Even though these activities appear innocuous enough many teachers and administrators are suspicious or even hostile to the idea of marketing schools and the education service . |
| 14 | In adjacent streets , there are disused and even derelict buildings which would far better repay investment . |
| 15 | A man of lesser integrity and lesser … care for the welfare of this paper might have been stubborn and even resigned because of so divergent a set of opinions between himself and his proprietor . |
| 16 | Second , it is essential that the base of the bridge slot and the bottom of the saddle are flat and even . |
| 17 | Well the figures show that assessments of the over provision are incorrect but even had they been correct if circumstances were an over provision comes about not because of an increase in our provision of services , but because of expansion in the private sector . |
| 18 | A demand will not , however , be set aside as irregular if the particulars of the debt as given are incorrect or even if the wrong form ( demand based on a debt not based upon a judgment ) is used , provided that the debtor understood perfectly well what debt was being demanded of him ( Re A Debtor ( No 190 of 1987 ) The Times , 21 May 1988 and Re A Debtor ( No 1 of 1978 ) The Times , 20 January 1989 ) . |
| 19 | I gather that the price of tobacco was not raised because the majority of pipe smokers are elderly or even old , a word that nowadays seems to make people unfasten their holsters . |
| 20 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 21 | She feels the union has been ineffectual and even the so-called industrial action four years ago when members refused to set or mark exam papers seemed , quite unjustifiably , to be taking things out on the students . |
| 22 | I am sure that even at this late hour the hon. Gentleman will wish to withdraw that . |
| 23 | Everything sung by individual voices and supposed to resemble an aria was empty , frozen and wretched — in a word , French ; but the choruses are good and even excellent . |
| 24 | Those from other countries and cultural backgrounds , on the other hand are bilingual or even pluralingual . |
| 25 | But institutional investors ' reaction so far has been unenthusiastic or even hostile , and without their support the APB 's ideas will never get off the ground . |
| 26 | We may need to grieve when we leave places where we have been happy and even places where we have been unhappy , like prisons or boarding schools . |
| 27 | Raine admits the knowledge base is likely to be different in London where social services and housing are coterminous or even joint services . |
| 28 | ( As explained in the last chapter , examples used to illustrate intonation transcription are usually given in spelling form , and you will notice that no punctuation is used ; the reason for this is that intonation and stress are the vocal equivalents of written punctuation , so that when these are transcribed it would be unnecessary or even confusing to include punctuation as well . ) |
| 29 | Simon had little reason to be grateful or even appreciative of Jesus because he did not have a sense of wrong . |
| 30 | But — perhaps more than ever before — personal stresses within marriage and stress upon marriage mean that life will not always be blissful or even comfortable . |