Example sentences of "[conj] even [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of these views of the relationship between government and the economy stress the extent to which social policy should be seen as dependent upon , or even a derivative of , economic policy . |
| 2 | Thank you letters from the children themselves , a note from the teacher outlining the benefits of the visit , or even a sample of the work produced as a result of the visit will be extremely welcome . |
| 3 | Brian and Kathryn Pritchard Gibson , who have three children , have until Thursday November 12 to find funds , or even a promise of funds , to avoid being made homeless . |
| 4 | I certainly did n't bring enough to buy a new wardrobe — or even a couple of frocks , if it comes to that . ’ |
| 5 | We 're looking for six pairs of women — friends , mother and daughter , sisters , it does n't matter — both y of whom would like to have a radical new haircut , maybe a perm , or even a change of colour . |
| 6 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 7 | Often it 's enough simply to suggest a division — perhaps by using a screen , or even a row of tall , leafy plants . |
| 8 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 9 | Faced with four alternative approaches to valuation — whether it should be based on capital values , rental values , maintenance costs or rebuilding costs — its choice was not to go for one of them , or even a mixture of two of them , but to go for all four of them . |
| 10 | If you try and arrange a meeting with a colleague or even a group of colleagues and he or they have already booked the time slot you want , you get to know about it before it 's too late . |
| 11 | Finally , the view of style as manner : I mean by ‘ manner ’ the way in which a text , or an author 's work as a whole , or the work of a group of writers , or even a period of literature , may be distinguished by typical patterns of language-use , a repeated preference , for instance , for a certain kind of construction or a certain class of word . |
| 12 | They inherited a suspicion or even a fear of drama often combined with the unspoken conviction shared by David Hargreaves that drama is a communal , performing art . |
| 13 | An important consideration to bear in mind when planning any design is whether you want a single picture , a matching pair or even a set of three or four , because your decision will influence the way in which you create the picture . |
| 14 | While some may come to admire the Guercino or the girandoles , many people , including children , may enjoy looking at the old or not-so-old toys , or even a collection of fifty years of milk bottles from the local dairy . |
| 15 | We can also recognise a letter , character or figure from just a part of the whole , or even a collection of dots that approximate what the letter should look like . |
| 16 | BATON DE MESURE : A very short rod or even a scroll of paper used in a concert by the Maître to control the rhythm and indicate metre and tempo . |
| 17 | Do n't you agree that you never know what you are going to find there but on the other hand if you ignore the expiry date and crunch it all up with a lot of jam , or even a lot of Nivea , it all goes down the red lane and things start to brighten up ? |
| 18 | This may be a sickly , peevish fairy child , an aged fairy no longer of value , or even a piece of wood carved to resemble the stolen child . |
| 19 | Many tragedies ( not just in Coniston Mines , of course ) happened through the iron tools used " striking fire " against the side of the hole , or even a piece of stone in the stemming . |
| 20 | Callers of any sort were scarce at Four Winds , mostly people who came asking for directions or even a glass of water when the weather was hot . |
| 21 | Others feel ill at just the smell of cigarette smoke or even a glass of wine . |
| 22 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 23 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 24 | Many conventional literary-critical terms for representing feeling can sound dated , affected , or even a parody of literary writing or reviewing : " forceful " , " affecting " , " tellingly apt " , as well as the more neutral ( sometimes ironic or euphemistic ) " interesting " , " original " , " thought-provoking " , or " persuasive " . |
| 25 | ‘ It suddenly occurred to me , ’ he says looking back , ‘ what if something serious happens there , or even a hint of something . |
| 26 | Newborn chicks will peck at an adult gull 's bill — or even a model of one — without any prior experience . |
| 27 | Pretty decorations for cakes and desserts are easy to make using milk , plain or white chocolate , or even a combination of all three for an attractive marbled effect . |
| 28 | Thus the enterprise of confirming what was a causal circumstance for something else is not remotely like some hopeless speculation into the whole natural history of a thing , or even a stretch of it . |
| 29 | If , on the other hand , we take prevalence rates as the most valid index of morbidity … then consultation rates for both years suggest equality of access , or even an under-utilisation of physicians by middle class patients . |
| 30 | Closely connected with this is the idea that sexual activity and love are concerned with youth , and that it is somehow undesirable , or even an object of mild amusement , for ageing people to indulge . |