Example sentences of "[subord] even [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underlying idea is that citizens are expected to keep control over their behaviour , but that in circumstances where even a person of normal self-control might be provoked , the offence may be reduced from murder to manslaughter . |
| 2 | Art prices have now spiralled to the point , it was suggested , where even a collector of Charles Saatchi 's great wealth can no longer afford to buy without selling . |
| 3 | Likewise ‘ Give AIDS The Freeze ’ and ‘ Over Our Dead Bodies ’ on the handling of the AIDS epidemic by the medical fraternity and the media could as easily have been made here , where even the issue of access to condoms renders public representatives apoplectic . |
| 4 | It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once , and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies , especially in the sphere of education . |
| 5 | I once knew a Yorkshire terrier where even the word ‘ walkies , sent him into gyrations of joyous bouncing and tail wagging . |
| 6 | The modern world is one which confuses and plunders our sense of the past ; one where even the concept of ‘ heritage ’ itself is hi-jacked and distorted . |
| 7 | To the east lay border regions — Berry and Auvergne — where even the Duke 's nominal suzerainty was at times doubtful . |
| 8 | ‘ He might not stand out so much in North America , where even the garbage collector appears on TV and talks with confidence , but in Britain this is something different . ’ |
| 9 | Widgery 's radical politics made limited headway within his medical school , where even the sprinkling of Labour Party careerists within David Robins 's University College might have appeared perilously left-wing . |
| 10 | Jay had taken her camera to photo the leather-bound treasures of the seventeenth century , where even the language was rounded in sepia sworls , respectful of rhythm , season , nature and wholeness . |
| 11 | The Ekeko 's fair is where dreams and wishes are sold , where even the city 's poorest inhabitants can buy , in miniature , what they hope to obtain in real life during the course of the coming year . |
| 12 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 13 | Some of the causes are still unknown , although with advanced medical knowledge much more is known about mental handicap today than even a decade ago . |
| 14 | The strongest impetus , he said , comes from museums ' reassessment of their role in society which the profession sees as far broader than even a decade ago . |
| 15 | In the 1977 US survey , people were asked to give the order of importance that they attached to various different types of disclosure information about credit terms , and more ( 62 per cent ) mentioned APRs first than even the size of their monthly payment ( which was judged the next most important ) . |
| 16 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |
| 17 | So the net effect of your suggested criterion is to get us rather further from a decision than even the chairman and I thought we might be at ten o'clock this morning . |
| 18 | It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market . |
| 19 | CCETSW has outdone SSDs in attracting more resources and has printed more forgettable publications than even the VAT office . |
| 20 | over the past 10 years and that this country now exports more per head than even the Japanese ? |
| 21 | The Left suspected that important people in high places were more active in support of Fascism than even the policy of appeasement " would suggest . |
| 22 | The prime site out of the above-mentioned locations is , in my experience , London , and the worst the railway stations , but there are far better places than even the City of London and I have been made aware that the airports are an example of sites that fall into this category . |
| 23 | Because the whole neighbourhood-thanks to Gittel 's big-mouthed elder sister-knew exactly who had been behind the curse , although even the sister was too much of a prude to tell anyone the reason why . ’ |
| 24 | Although even the thought of a quick divorce from this man , when Liz and Owen had returned to full health , did n't seem to lift her spirits , somehow . |
| 25 | We still had lively discussions about the books we read , although even the supply of those seemed to be drying up , and Tom was teaching Brian French . |
| 26 | If even a proportion of in-situ lesions are progressive , our calculations are an underestimate of the magnitude of the relative risk . |
| 27 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 28 | because even the name — ‘ overloaded government ’ , the technobureaucratic elite'. — and so on — may place the phenomena within a specific and specifically limited theoretical construct of which the initial apparently innocent name is part . |
| 29 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 30 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |