Example sentences of "[conj] even [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact I 'll change with the last record that I heard ; if I hear someone I really like on a record , or even at a gig before I play , then the chances are I 'll be playing some of his licks . |
| 2 | Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common . |
| 3 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 4 | Each barcode , on a can of baked beans , a packet of biscuits , or even on the back of TODAY newspaper , is worth a different number of energy points . |
| 5 | you can ‘ Always look on the bright side of life ’ , or even on the runway for ice . |
| 6 | If extra figures are needed , they could be placed sitting on the grass or even on the bus roof . |
| 7 | Is there really no wood to be found on the way , or even on the mountain itself ? |
| 8 | Both these plants are hardy and although not in the front rank of ornamentals , are worth growing in a large border or even on the bank of a stream or lake provided they are kept away from the wet margin . |
| 9 | It provides a way of helping to dismantle and correct oversimplified explanations where generalisations have been made from particular cases — or even on the basis of a single example — which clearly will not stand up to broader comparative investigation . |
| 10 | A lucky stalwart might gain the patronage of some powerful upper-hab clan or even of a noble . |
| 11 | For most Greeks , a political party has long been not so much the voice of an ideology , or even of a class , as a system of social protection . |
| 12 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 13 | Not everyone proved to be a persistent reader of one paper ( or even of a group of similar papers ) but the majority did . |
| 14 | Though his kin , servants , and three former benefices were remembered dutifully enough , there is nothing of the wider , political world where he had made his fortune , scarcely more of his own diocese or even of the cathedral itself , before whose pulpit he sought burial . |
| 15 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 16 | All the same , it is far too early to say whether it is the vintage of the century or even of the decade . |
| 17 | Doubt is not primarily a question of particular faiths ( Should I believe this one or that one ? ) or even of the strength of faith ( Do I really believe this one or that one ? ) . |
| 18 | De Castelnau 's snap decision was one that in its fateful implications would affect not merely the course of the Battle of Verdun , or even of the war itself , but also the whole stream of subsequent French history . |
| 19 | Why wo n't you come over to us for a week , or even for a night ? " |
| 20 | Getting away for the weekend , or even for a day of walking , is the ideal cure for those post-summer-oh-my-God-how-can-I-afford-Christmas blues . |
| 21 | Their use is also envisaged to evaluate a particular teaching approach , or even for the appraisal of individual teachers . |
| 22 | One of the results of an active media relations service is likely to be requests for spokesmen for radio and television programmes , and special events and launches could lead to live coverage or even to a programme being made on the subject . |
| 23 | Would Hilbert have left his property to Bridget perhaps , or even to the Law Society ? |
| 24 | Some hon. Members believe that the Tories have got themselves into a spot of bother in Scotland , and we are not referring to the occasional by-election disaster such as occurred in Kincardine and Deeside recently , or even to the reduction of Scottish Tory representation in the House to the completely inadequate level of nine . |
| 25 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 26 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 27 | The characteristics which are common within a specialist collection of data may relate to the subject matter ( e.g. political opinion polls ) , to the time period ( e.g. historical social and demographic records ) , to the geographical coverage ( e.g. Northern Irish data ) , to the administrative units to which they relate ( e.g. New Town 's studies ) or even to the type ( e.g. spatially referenced data ) . |
| 28 | According to a Royal Bank spokesman , in April the focus of the scheme could shift to mortgages or even to the life assurance products sold by the bank 's insurance subsidiary , Royal Scottish Assurance . |
| 29 | The battle of Sentinum was the natural prelude to the battle of Pydna — or even to the destruction of Corinth and the Social War . |
| 30 | Some of the larger local authorities , as we have seen , are now appointing specialist advisers to the chief executive 's office , or even to the leader of the council , who can give advice divorced from the service-providing departments , but such posts are few and regarded with some suspicion by mainstream local government officers . |