Example sentences of "[conj] even the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional phototypesetting uses expensive photographic materials so the financial advantages of producing proofs , or even the final result , on plain paper are obvious . |
| 2 | In other words , it was not a straightforward rule which a national court , or even the European Court , could apply directly , but essentially a question of policy for the Council , the role of the Court being limited to checking whether the Council had overstepped the limits of its discretion . |
| 3 | " Your grandfather might have heard it called the felty , or the pigeon felty or even the blue felty — and I think some call it fell fo ! " |
| 4 | He may be tempted to poach some of his promising-looking freshmen to strengthen Goldie , or even the Blue boat . |
| 5 | No more can x be " something which stands for a number " since one could equally well imagine it standing for a matrix or even the differential operator |
| 6 | First , ratepayers do not provide all , or even the major proportion of , local authority revenue . |
| 7 | ( The ability to make statements without indicating status , which Lyons attributes to English , is not , of course , the only or even the major way in which abstract and neutral meanings can be formulated . ) |
| 8 | Lombardy was the first territory to be invaded by Charles , but the Lombard support of the Carloman faction was not the official or even the major reason for the campaign . |
| 9 | True , there is a Will in Sonnets 135 and 136 , and if the italicization in the 1609 Quarto is significant it can be seen to represent Shakespeare 's own name , or that of the Friend , or even the Dark Lady 's husband . |
| 10 | With the reduction in content required to keep them infallible , it seems unlikely that any interesting beliefs about the past , the future , the unobserved or even the present material surroundings could ever be justified by appeal to the basic . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , in the event that , in the future , short term letting could not provide a sufficiently profitable return , the possibility of long term letting or even the complete selling off of a number of these chalets , can not be ignored . |
| 12 | Constitutional change through the popular will , or even the long wait for a head of state 's death , are not concepts with deep roots in African society . |
| 13 | Where the problems of older people relate to their family , it is often crucial to involve key members or even the entire family group in the counselling process . |
| 14 | The graphics facilities allow the teacher to develop pictures with far more control than the blackboard or even the overhead projector normally provides . |
| 15 | Any ideas what really separates the real Leed United fan from the casual fan or even the downright traitor ? |
| 16 | Yet Maxwell , perhaps because he never achieved an adequate exposition of what he described as his ‘ somewhat awkward theory ’ ( this was not made until 1941 ! ) failed to convince such leading contemporaries as Thompson and Helmholtz , or even the brilliant Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann ( 1844–1906 ) , whose memoir of 1868 virtually launched statistical mechanics as a subject . |
| 17 | Move towards fresh fruit salads , berries or fruits with a topping of yogurt ( rather than cream ) , or even the occasional banana flambé or strawberries in champagne . |
| 18 | They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter . |
| 19 | But we can not in this case take the flow of newly issued bills , or even the net flow ( new issues minus redemptions ) as the supply and learn anything useful from it about the operation of the market . |
| 20 | Indeed Theodore Roosevelt was suggesting before 1914 that , if the British Empire faltered and was unable to preserve a global balance of power which was compatible with American interests , the United States might have to take an equal or even the leading role in world affairs . |
| 21 | One of these promoters assured me that there were now more than thirty scientific surveys ( carried out by TM ) to ‘ prove ’ , among other things , that accident and crime statistics dropped in areas where one per cent ( or even the square root of one per cent ) of the population were TM followers . |
| 22 | The same readiness to supplement the wording of an institution is also found , although not as early as the Republic : Ulpian discusses cases in which the esto of heres esto has been left out , or even the whole expression . |
| 23 | Yet double , triple and even multiple stars are surprisingly common in space , and some of them are within the range of binoculars or even the naked eye . |
| 24 | I do n't much like being out of door in the rain or the extreme cold or even the extreme heat — although when the weather is right I hugely enjoy walking aimlessly and observing all about me . |
| 25 | This does not , however , prove that the exclusive or even the main purpose of the decree was religious , i.e. not political or economic . |
| 26 | But red tape is not the only or even the main problem . |
| 27 | Dividend pay-outs are much lower in Japan and Germany than in Britain and America , but this is not the only or even the main source of returns to shareholders : they receive capital gains ( indeed they prefer them in Japan , where dividends are taxed much more heavily than capital gains ) and , especially in Japan , gain business advantages through shareholdings in customers or suppliers , for instance . |
| 28 | However , Marxist feminists do not regard the relationship between the sexes as the only , or even the main power relationship in society . |
| 29 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 30 | We can hardly begin to discuss a novel without summarising or assuming a knowledge of its story or plot ; which is not to say that the story or plot is the only or even the main reason for our interest in a novel , but that this is the fundamental principle of its structure . |