Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] even [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this intercommunication is not properly arranged there will be the familiar symptoms of frustrating reiteration , decisions being misunderstood or being constantly revised , political manoeuvring and even concealment of progress within one or more of the teams . |
| 2 | In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins . |
| 3 | Yet in those golden eyes of hers was a lively intelligence and even wit . |
| 4 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 5 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |
| 6 | But many young people leave home to work , and live , in another town or even country , far away from their schoolday friends and possibly living in an isolated situation . |
| 7 | There were moments of high drama and even tragedy , all sensationally recorded in the journals of the protagonists , The Seaman and The British Seafarer . |
| 8 | The native peoples of Siberia were allowed to go on benefiting from the reforms which Speranskii had introduced in 1822 ; in this area " there was no sustained programme of enforced Russification or even christianisation " . |
| 9 | With the spectre of the supermarket pinta a very real threat to the British milkman , Steve Ellis points to his unofficial role as social worker or even home help . |
| 10 | Nor are electric windows , central locking or even door handles ( you pull a body-coloured strap to release the catch ) . |
| 11 | On political union key issues included strengthening the role of the European Parliament and the concept of European citizenship , while the Mitterrand-Kohl joint letter added the wider and more sensitive issues of possible joint security and even defence policies . |
| 12 | Teenagers are fiercely independent , but the risks of being led astray are much greater — drug addiction , unsafe sex or even death from dare-devil exploits . |
| 13 | It may be caused by an accidental or inadvertent release from an industrial plant , and the effects may range from annoyance ( e.g. odour ) through minor illness or discomfort ( nose , eye and breathing irritation , coughing , nausea ) to , in some cases , serious illness or even death as happened at Seveso , Bhopal and Chernobyl ( table 7.3 ) . |
| 14 | The transsexual is one who utterly and completely rejects his biological sex , seeing personal fulfilment and even survival as possible only through the assumption in as complete a way as possible of the sex to which he feels he really belongs . |
| 15 | Misunderstanding and confusion are rife sometimes causing unnecessary damage or expense , personal injury or even death . |
| 16 | We are used to the idea of exercises for our muscular body and even breathing exercises but the following are for our major internal organs . |
| 17 | The problem is hinted at in the uneasy combination of the two descriptive terms , one signifying natural complexity and even contrariness , the other , mechanical order and simplicity . |
| 18 | They do not touch hard liquor or even coffee . |
| 19 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 20 | Those whose actions are most likely directly to involve human suffering or even death may hesitate to use their whole industrial and political muscle for fear of the adverse reaction of public opinion and decision-makers should their action be the cause of some tragedy , such as death . |
| 21 | Although these years witnessed a very low tide of economic activity including the horrors of widespread famine and even peasant revolts in some areas like Tambov , problems concerning religious belief and taxation never led to large-scale uprisings in the Smolensk guberniia ( nor indeed anywhere else in Russia ) . |
| 22 | Any precise quantification in the present muddled state of our economy is an obvious chimera and even approximation to the truth is so occluded by political utterance as itself to become unattainable . |
| 23 | As soon as we turn our attention to the source of police errors we find that they do not , in the main , spring from malpractice , ill will or even slackness , as is sometimes supposed . |
| 24 | Complaints such as arthritis , cellulite , high-blood pressure and even depression have been linked to poor lymphatic drainage . |
| 25 | The ‘ retirement impact hypothesis ’ ( McMahon and Ford 1955 ) — the suggestion that retirement leads to ill health or even death having been out of favour during the inter-war depression ( Emerson 1959 ) was resurrected during the post-war period . |
| 26 | Most of the teaching is still done by hourly-paid staff who enjoy none of the benefits such as holiday — or sick pay or even protection of employment . |
| 27 | This can cause a cart-wheel and major damage or even injury . |
| 28 | A lurcher has all the necessary speed to catch and seize any speeding rabbit or even hare , but in truth virtually any dog that 's half a dog can catch a bolting rabbit during ferreting . |
| 29 | ‘ She was very strict ’ , the queen remembered , ‘ and the Princess had great respect and even awe of her , but with that the greatest affection . ’ |
| 30 | Some features of that world are nowadays entirely inscrutable — notably , what it was in Frederic Lowndes 's self-effacing position on The Times which gave him and his wife access to a society of international aristocracy and even royalty , and to the inner circles of the cabinet , as well as the society of novelists and playwrights . |