Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] even [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were forbidden to preach or even to meet together for prayer . |
| 2 | Since the airline is not a party to such contract it is not bound to carry or even to store the goods referred to in the house air waybill . |
| 3 | They would be unable at times to concentrate or even to stay awake , It is very noticeable that Barratt required " as far as possible " the attendance of the children at school during the winter " when they are unemployed " . |
| 4 | As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work . |
| 5 | It tears my heart out whenever I hear of a mining tragedy and because I am not there to help or even to sympathise , something inside me feels the need to shout to all people , southerners especially who have never had fathers , husbands , sons to worry about when each day they are swallowed into the apron of the earth . |
| 6 | The ability to quantify androgyny on the BSRI seemed to some 1970s North American feminists to suggest and even to facilitate an escape from oppressive aspects of dominant discourses of femininity and masculinity , like guilt and dependency , and violence and insensitivity , which would at the same time retain femininity 's positive social , emotional characteristics , and the valuable self-confidence and achievement motivation commonly associated with masculinity . |
| 7 | One of the reasons for Dupleix 's failure was simply that he was operating in a region of India where the profits from trade were not large enough to justify or even to support heavy military expenditure . |
| 8 | ‘ Had you any reason to believe or even to suspect that Riddle might have been the father of your daughter 's baby ? ’ |
| 9 | ’ Discretionary ’ means what it says : it is not our policy to intervene or even to lean gently on authorities in this matter . |
| 10 | Whereas the radio-controlled motors could only control the owl 's head , wings and eyes in simple , repetitive motions , Dynarama enabled it to fly and even to act , or at least intervene in the action , notably the frequent fights . |
| 11 | His parents have always refused to co-operate or even to discuss the boy . ’ |
| 12 | The demands on the human operator are difficult to quantify or even to describe because the process is essentially an interactive one . |
| 13 | She was much too weary to eat or even to open her post ; she would do that later . |
| 14 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 15 | Some of his self-portrayal is admittedly utterly unattractive : But are we required or invited to follow or even to surpass the Reeve in hostile judgement of his character ? |
| 16 | This was partly because it proved so difficult to crush or even to assess the strength of the ‘ People 's Will ’ . |
| 17 | Equally , to yawn is to act bored , to admit and even to flaunt kinship with Svidligailov , and the evil-omened word listless ( vyali ) that dogs Stavrogin , though he never uses it himself , corresponds to the other man 's terminal boredom . |