Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] even the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
2 | With the reduction in content required to keep them infallible , it seems unlikely that any interesting beliefs about the past , the future , the unobserved or even the present material surroundings could ever be justified by appeal to the basic . |
3 | It is clear that even the named and identified members of Jesus 's following represent a broad and diverse spectrum . |
4 | Jenny was heartily relieved that the recent bad weather had made the track so muddy that even the passionate and rather drunk Ted had not dared go any further . |
5 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
6 | He was on his way south from a place called Nunyerry when , he said , monsoon clouds forced him to fly lower and lower into the Turner Ranges , one of those areas of outback Australia that are so inhospitable that even the local animals hibernate below ground . |
7 | I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter . |
8 | The resulting aircraft is much more versatile than even the legendary DC-3 and avoids the ever increasing costs of maintaining and operating a piston engined aircraft — turbine fuel is available worldwide but fuel for reciprocating engines is available in an ever diminishing number |
9 | Already the biggest obstacle to the dissemination of improved techniques of mud building is that scientists and housing experts have decried mud so much that even the poor , who have no alternative to mud , do not want to live in it . |
10 | The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power . |
11 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
12 | The disparity between that and even the increased pension rates of £54 and £86 for a single person and married couple is enormous and it is getting worse every year . |
13 | I slowly began to realize that the Alexander Technique not only covers the physical body , but also the mental , the psychological , the emotional and even the spiritual … a sort of ‘ sorcerer 's stone ’ . |
14 | The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Each of the organisations with which we had contact was a major or even the dominant local employer , and each was located in an area of high unemployment . |
17 | Indeed Theodore Roosevelt was suggesting before 1914 that , if the British Empire faltered and was unable to preserve a global balance of power which was compatible with American interests , the United States might have to take an equal or even the leading role in world affairs . |
18 | This does not , however , prove that the exclusive or even the main purpose of the decree was religious , i.e. not political or economic . |
19 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
20 | The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger . |
21 | So had the great survey of landownership in Russia which Catherine set in motion in 1765 and even the Legislative Commission of two years later . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | ( The ability to make statements without indicating status , which Lyons attributes to English , is not , of course , the only or even the major way in which abstract and neutral meanings can be formulated . ) |
24 | But red tape is not the only or even the main problem . |
25 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
26 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |
27 | This large and important group of plants is represented today by a mere four genera of humble herbaceous plants — Lycopodium , Selaginella , Isoetes and Phylloglossum — living fossils which have survived with little change from the Mesozoic or even the Carboniferous . |
28 | What I suggest to you is far more officers than the three you gave evidence of perhaps five or even the full six at some stage found their way into that master bedroom . |
29 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
30 | And everything about her , her long nightdress and the mist she was held in , was so golden-red that even the dark gold skin of her lovely face had a reddish tinge to it . |