Example sentences of "[conj] even a [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | Rousseau as a theorist of democracy has attracted a great deal of hostile commentary , in particular from writers who see " totalitarian " implications in Du Contrat Social , or even a blueprint for what has been termed " totalitarian democracy " . |
5 | A hat was all right or an instrument case or even a scarf with knotted corners . |
6 | And if an objective moral standard is thrown over , what is to stop the majority in society — or even a minority in power — from putting away in a mental institution those who do not see eye to eye with them until they are " cured " ? |
7 | Bank lending may also increase ( item 3 ) even if there is no increase in liquidity or even a reduction in liquidity ( item I is zero or negative ) , if banks respond to increases in the demand for loans by accepting a lower liquidity ratio . |
8 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
9 | And erm you were very , or even a ha'penny for that matter , and you was glad of a ha'penny . |
10 | I certainly did n't bring enough to buy a new wardrobe — or even a couple of frocks , if it comes to that . ’ |
11 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | She had been rapt at his every phrase , pen ready to score out any word or even a comma in her essays to please him . |
14 | What shows that this was generally an unthinking answer , uninformed by any real understanding of interest rates , is that people were just as likely to give this answer whether they thought it would be a percentage of the amount they borrowed , a percentage per year , or even a percentage per month . |
15 | Can there , for instance , be any meaningful communion in the approval situation between a public librarian and a novel , a biography , a book on plumbing , an introduction to thermodynamics , or even a work on library classification ? |
16 | WITH the latest appalling upsurge in violence , both loyalist and republican , thoughts of peace or even a breakthrough in the political stalemate seem far removed from the grim reality . |
17 | There may be a case for downward movement inside the ERM as the French achieved in the mid-1980s , or even a case for a one-off devaluation as the Swedes undertook in 1982 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | They may be wise as an owl , slippery as an eel or even a snake in the grass . |
20 | Often it 's enough simply to suggest a division — perhaps by using a screen , or even a row of tall , leafy plants . |
21 | Take a hot bath/shower Or treat yourself to a sauna or even a session in a beauty salon ! |
22 | When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Another defeat , or even a draw for Taylor , will leave him with so much work to do to close the gap . |
27 | This line of argument does not demand an exercise in conspiracy theory sociology , or even a belief in premeditated state malice , only an acceptance of the realities of the world of policy formulation in which both issues and policy prescriptions are not structured solely by empirical reality . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |