Example sentences of "[conj] even in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , their domestic tastes were more grandiose than most contented couples , and Elena played her part in promoting the over-decoration of their apartments in the various palaces they used , and even in those they never visited .
2 It is only too evident that the scribes considered gentility the only status worth recording , and even in this they were not consistent ; civic dignity was almost invariably ignored .
3 It began life as a counterpart to the NCCL , but even in this it was not original ; in 1962 a Northern Ireland Council for Civil Liberties ( NICCL ) was set up .
4 In international relations , in a broader sense of the term , they were beginning to play an increasing part , and one with immense potentialities for the future ; but even in 1914 they had only a secondary role in the thinking of diplomats or foreign offices .
5 But common sense may have been more important than learning in perceiving the vulnerability of most castles to — battering-rams and catapults ; for even in 1100 they were , as a rule , primitive structures .
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