Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] even the " in BNC.

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1 However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable .
2 Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land .
3 The sight of one bee carrying out a struggling sister or even the queen should convince us that behaviour can seem intelligent in its normal context without any need for the intellectual participation of the actors .
4 In this sense , animals ( and we might add primitive peoples and even the environment ) are sui generis ; they are perfect of their kind .
5 For about 100 years Jewish and Christian scholars have demonstrated over and over again that the stereotype of the Pharisees found in the Gospels is a distortion which reflects the animosity of the Evangelists rather than the historical truth or even the attitude of Jesus himself .
6 There was no food but coarse grass and even the grass was mixed with bitter rushes and docks .
7 The optimum yield is not necessarily the theoretical yield or even the maximum possible yield .
8 These were the Azems who had once served in the French army or even the French air force but who later turned against their French masters — and their minority supporters in Syria — and died fighting them .
9 A year of continuous musical training at a conservatoire and she would be fit for a top orchestra or even the concert platform .
10 Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity .
11 These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists .
12 Obviously , the short lives of all those babies and children will have a great effect in bringing down the average figure as even the least mathematical of us will be able to understand .
13 The submissive spouse or even the martyr may be giving rein in an oblique way to a desire for mental or physical pain .
14 For our present purposes , however , the important feature of the model is that it develops the implications of the widely accepted notion that even the simplest stimulus will consist of a set ( probably a large number ) of elements and that only some of these will be sampled ( will activate their central representations ) on a given exposure ( cf.
15 She brought a pile of cards that the children had made , using brightly-coloured paper and even the glitter tubes rationed out at Christmas .
16 CCETSW has outdone SSDs in attracting more resources and has printed more forgettable publications than even the VAT office .
17 A great deal of the argument against central controls has stressed that local government has shown a greater ability to reduce spending than the departments of central government and even the Audit Commission — in the early 1980s — has acknowledged that the operation of central rules may actually have encouraged increased levels of spending and a reduction in the accuracy of information feeding into the centre ( Audit Commission , 1984 ) .
18 If one believes the prediction of the inflationary cosmology , that the total density of the Universe must be very close to the critical value above which it recollapses , then there must also be unclustered dark matter as even the dark matter in galaxies and clusters has too small a density to account for this .
19 The Conservatives returned to their panacea of imperial protectionism and even the Liberals , the historic party of free trade , began to question the dogma , influenced by Lloyd George 's experience in running the war economy and Keynes 's argument that deficit budgeting behind temporary import restrictions was the key to triggering a domestic economic revival .
20 For world trade was in serious decline and even the belated one-year moratorium on foreign debt payments , announced by Hoover in 1931 , failed to revive the ailing economies of Europe .
21 It attracted more retail savings than even the government , which spares no effort to tap the market .
22 Between 1346 and 1348 , and again , after the visitation of the Black Death , between 1356 and 1358 , the people of Reims completed the construction of their city 's defence , with the gratifying effect that even the king of England , Edward III himself , could not force an entry in the early winter of 1359–60 .
23 For some people ‘ appraisal ’ smacks too much of an excessively rigid method which could involve unfair disciplining or even the sack .
24 Whilst it may be possible for certain hoists and lifts to be provided with dual controls and to be relied upon to assist in the initial stages of smouldering fire or even the last stages of salvage and reinstatement , and whilst the provision of a portable extinguisher could be regarded as standard , the dangers involved in aligning the confines of a lift or cage to a developing fire in the only manner by which it could be used effectively are sufficiently great to warrant special mention when consideration is being given to emergency planning .
25 Alan Charig , of London University , also says that no allowance has been made for differing life-spans or even the palatability of the different dead animals , nor for the robustness of fossilized skeletons , nor the latitude at which fossils have been found .
26 The fun comes when you want to produce real publications with mixed text and graphics , multiple fonts and even the possibility of scanned photographs or colour separations .
27 Any ideas what really separates the real Leed United fan from the casual fan or even the downright traitor ?
28 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 .
29 Sadly indeed , the pendulum seems to have swung , as it does swing on the education clock , so far away from the New Primary Approach that even the integrated approach to lower primary teaching , which had been so wisely and effectively urged , is no longer reflected in the current Kenya syllabus .
30 I do not believe that altruism , good neighbourliness or even the visions of Jean Monnet have been the motivation behind the EC but simply hard-headed self interest .
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