Example sentences of "[conj] even [prep] a [noun] " 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 | At Tankersley , the custom has not been continuous since its introduction , nor has it always appeared on Feast Sunday or even on a Sunday at all . |
| 3 | A lucky stalwart might gain the patronage of some powerful upper-hab clan or even of a noble . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not everyone proved to be a persistent reader of one paper ( or even of a group of similar papers ) but the majority did . |
| 7 | Why wo n't you come over to us for a week , or even for a night ? " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By a visit to a doctor , a psychiatrist , or even through a programme of counselling and guidance , mental illnesses can be cured , and almost always are . |
| 11 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 12 | Similarly , cosmetic surgery is seen in the professional literature as an option ( some parents choose it , some do n't ) , or even as a kind of cure , especially by the surgeons contracted to perform it , whose understanding of the issues extends as far as the principle that if people see a physically normal child they will react to it ‘ normally ’ and will elicit normal behaviour . |
| 13 | Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt , a bikini top — or even as a scarf . |
| 14 | It is , however , not on his career at Court or as a bishop or even as a controversialist that Andrewes ' place in the history of the Church of England depends , but on his sermons and private prayers , which were published after his death . |
| 15 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 16 | In Bavaria I have been served the paler , lighter type of wheat beer as a refreshingly tart , acidic , Champagne-like summer refresher , or even as a dessert beer , with elderberry fritters ( how about apple pie with cinnamon and cloves ? ) , but there are also darker and stronger versions more suited to autumn and winter . |
| 17 | Colours can be used as a complement to fonts or even as a substitute ( e.g. a user might choose to display the Emphasized context in a brighter colour rather than in a different font ) . |
| 18 | Citizenship should , it is suggested , be regarded not only as a burden , or even as a set of rights or entitlements , but also as an opportunity for self-fulfilment and a reciprocal relationship between citizens and the state . |
| 19 | I always start new ribber knitters off with a very simple band that can be used as a neckband for round or V-necks , or even as a welt , where the welt is knitted separately to the garment . |
| 20 | One is a problem of content : it is appropriate for feminists to celebrate their diverse sexual choices ( lesbianism or spinsterhood , for instance ) but not , perhaps , to reduce ourselves to body parts ( I would have problems referring to myself approvingly as a cunt , or even as a slut , since I would rather challenge the necessity for a linguistic category of ‘ unchaste ’ women than embrace it with joy ) . |
| 21 | At this point , it is sufficient to point out that it is difficult to see a link between the themes of the above clauses , or even between a rheme and a following theme , for instance . |
| 22 | You have to be fine-tuned and the notion of writing drunk or even with a hangover is not on , because you need every sense and more . |
| 23 | Using its Dynamic Data Exchange ( DDE ) client and server capabilities , complex applications can be built to run locally ( or even over a network ) . |
| 24 | To those who , for reasons of personal inhibition , administrative convenience or even from a feeling that " they " do n't need sex , are determined to " keep sex out of the Home " , one can only suggest that , ultimately , they are doomed to failure . |
| 25 | Publishers are often willing to grant permission for the reproduction of music upon written application , or even by a telephone call , supported by a subsequent letter . |
| 26 | There could have been an innocent explanation for the dust cloud : it could have been caused by a herd of cows being driven to market , by a Prussian regiment on exercise , or even by a work gang hammering cobbles into the highway 's bed of chalk and flint , yet the musket-fire Sharpe had heard earlier , and the Presence of the enemy Dragoons on the southern bank of the Sambre suggested a more sinister cause . |
| 27 | The object was to prevent takeover by a rival paper , or even by a consortium of people opposed to NoS and its politics which might try to build up a majority shareholding . |
| 28 | The conjunction of the two gives us such singers of whom there occur perhaps half-a-dozen in a generation or even in a century . |
| 29 | With significant opportunities for growth , or even in a recession , all this change provides business for executive search . |
| 30 | By comparison , socially created inequality ‘ consists of the different privileges which some men enjoy to the prejudice of others , such as that of being more rich , more honoured , more powerful , or even in a position to exact obedience ’ ( quoted in Bottomore , 1965 , pp. 15–16 ) . |