Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] even [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
| 2 | Natural law and rights theories , positivism and contextualism , are in this sense no longer incompatible theories of the law but enter into the legal languages or dialects which are spoken in different or even in the same legal systems . |
| 3 | Other works from this and even from the earlier phase will be discussed in the last section of this chapter , on relief and architectural sculpture , since that is the area in which the formation of the ripe archaic style can most clearly be traced . |
| 4 | The curtains were drawn but they were thin and unlined and even in the subdued light he could see that the room was spectacularly untidy . |
| 5 | The snow may have fallen crisp and even on the NEC in Birmingham but that did n't dampen the enthusiasm of everyone who attended Clothes Show Live . |
| 6 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 7 | It is ironic that even in the UK the National Anti-Vivisection Society ( NAVS ) urges us in its literature to look to our own self-interest . |
| 8 | They are fun , outrageous , extravagant and even over the top ! |
| 9 | To the player it is all too real and even from the prime position in the middle of the fairway he can barely pick out the top of the flag amid the brightly-coloured hues of the spectators . |
| 10 | Rourke 's voice sounded low and even across the silence of the room , and Lissa 's heart began to thump wildly against her ribcage . |
| 11 | The GT 35s were immediately comfortable and even on the backpack , with one very long day in the heat , I suffered no blisters and little foot discomfort . |
| 12 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 13 | He believes all the right things but for no reasons at all or even for the wrong reasons . |
| 14 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 15 | Prevention meant to Posidonius moderate use of power , responsible treatment of the poor and even of the slaves . |
| 16 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 17 | The importance attached to ‘ character ’ was , therefore , considerable and even after the introduction of competitive examinations in the 1870s , the social composition of the bar scarcely changed . |
| 18 | It is apparent that even with the forecast winds used by the crew the flight was undertaken with marginal fuel reserves which were insufficient to take care of possible navigation errors , air traffic control delays , changes of planned altitude or variance in forecast winds . |
| 19 | Our interpretation of the field situation therefore becomes a specific and unusual type of ‘ anthropology at home ’ , for it is not out there in the exotic or even in the backyard . |
| 20 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 21 | England are due to play a friendly in Dublin on March 28 and even before the draw Lansdowne Road was assured of a sell-out . |
| 22 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 23 | Thus Douglas found in the early 1960s that even among the most able , working-class pupils were more likely to leave school early than middle-class pupils with the same IQ scores . |
| 24 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 25 | It was not surprising that even within the upper reaches of the Party discontent began to come into the open , or at least to be expressed clearly behind closed doors at meetings of the Central Committee or Council of Ministers . |
| 26 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 27 | But it is certain that even in the thirteenth century the Viscounts did not forget their Cornish connection . |
| 28 | The second half of the century was a period of intolerance , of deepening division not only between Catholic and Protestant — though a Catholic emperor , Maximilian II , could still favour Lutherans and as late as 1583 a Catholic Archbishop of Cologne could contemplate marriage to a nun — but between Lutheran and Calvinist and even within the various religious camps . |
| 29 | It is true that even during the final talks in Moscow the American delegation had to keep a wary eye on those at home who argued against the surrender of the advantages which they expected the United States to derive from further tests above ground . |
| 30 | It is true that even by the mid 1870s the total student body was little over 10,000 in a population of 75 million . |