Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] even [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet there is no denying that ‘ ethnic ’ identities which had no political or even existential significance until yesterday ( for instance being a ‘ Lombard ’ , which is now the title of the xenophobic leagues in north Italy ) can acquire a genuine hold as badges of group identity overnight . |
| 2 | Describing the liberal- minded students as " rowdies and trouble-makers " , he treated their concerns not as a social , political or even intellectual matter of significance , but as a short-term problem of public order . |
| 3 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 4 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 5 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 6 | When performed in normal circumstances , these strange behaviour patterns generally denote depraved appetite due to malnutrition , extreme hunger , indigestion , dietary deficiency , some kind of physiological upset or even sheer BOREDOM . |
| 7 | ( For example , the frequency of the collocate ’ pay ’ in the context of ’ money ’ would be compared with its frequency outside of that context : this may return a high positive value , indicating a high degree of association , or a low or even negative value indicating non-association or even repulsion . ) |
| 8 | A few military theorists — Saxe in his Rêveries ( 1757 ) , Justus Möser in his Patriotische Phantasien ( 1775–1804 ) , Guibert in his Essai générale de tactique ( 1772 ) — as well as political writers such as Montesquieu , Morellet and Mably , might advocate some form of extensive or even universal service ; but there was no serious possibility of their ideas being adopted by any government . |
| 9 | They were loath to attract adverse publicity by criticising headhunters for an unsuitable or even disastrous appointment , or felt it might be a reflection on them if they chose an unsuitable firm . |
| 10 | All the same , they have to represent value for money , and while they might not score too highly under professional or even semi-professional scrutiny , they are certainly worth their asking price . |
| 11 | Hurd 's preferred option appears to be based on the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) — the organisation created in 1981 in order to provide the Gulf with a collective security system designed to obviate the necessity for Iraqi , Iranian or even Western participation and involving Kuwait , Bahrain , Qatar , the UAE , Oman and Saudi Arabia — but this time under explicit Saudi leadership . |
| 12 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 13 | When you have a cup for an eye , almost any vaguely convex , vaguely transparent or even translucent material over its opening will constitute an improvement , because of its slight lens-like properties . |
| 14 | It was Napoleon — the First , not the Third — who established this tremendous promenade from which , in clear or even clearish weather , you get what is prized , and rightly so , as the finest of all long-range views of the Pyrenees . |
| 15 | The expectation that the Afro-Caribbean and Asian minorities would simply blend into a homogeneous British or even English stew , perhaps adding some harmless spice , was revealed as not only hopelessly unrealistic but symptomatic of a form of racism which regarded ‘ Britishness ’ and ‘ Westernness ’ as the only touchstones of cultural value . |
| 16 | The coordinating nurse on each shift ‘ liaises ’ with the admissions office regarding bed availability , and will frequently act as a ‘ disturbance handler ’ and ‘ spokesperson ’ for the ward — with the aid of an established ward standard — if the total patient dependency score and staff skill mix ratio is not compatible with maintaining a high or even safe level of patient care . |
| 17 | They argued that although sabotage is usually regarded as irrational or even pathological behaviour , careful investigation shows that ‘ in many cases the meanings which inform sabotage are explicitly intentional ’ . |
| 18 | Most customers come by car , and do their shopping on a weekly or even monthly basis , so hypermarkets have large car parks . |
| 19 | But , as civil servants have discovered in the past , prosecution under the Official Secrets Act may be brought even where the civil servant ( or the engineer in this case ) is exposing improper or even illegal conduct by the executive . |
| 20 | He behaved sometimes as if heterosexual love were an improper or even immoral exercise and if his presence could disrupt it , so much the better . |
| 21 | What emerges most strongly from this production is however less the drama 's sexual thrust than its social or even sociological charge , Strindberg 's bleak scrutiny of class-consciousness , of the outraged pride of the servants and the threat to their ingrained deference to their unworthy betters . |
| 22 | If it examines them separately , it tends to reiterate dominant discourses of working-class social or even biological deviance , by studying working-class subjects ' inadequacies at work , their problems when unemployed , and their failures in education . |
| 23 | The possibility of automatization of tasks at the tactical or even strategical level appears to be consistent with views of driver behaviour which regard normal driving as being primarily controlled by the simple maintenance of safety margins ( e.g. Summala , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) . |
| 24 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 25 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 26 | Clearly it was possible to have great administrative , fiscal and even social progress under a ruler who was not personally at all in sympathy with the Enlightenment . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is from this base that the Report goes on to conclude that only the state , in its cultural and even spiritual manifestation , is capable of overcoming the forces making for national disunity . |
| 28 | But in the ‘ new ’ version , Blade Runner The Director 's Cut , due out at the end of the month , Scott opts for a different and even darker conclusion . |
| 29 | Another is that commercial property is intrinsically less liquid than even distressed third-world debt . |
| 30 | A third should be added : that men 's wages were invariably higher than women 's , even if for similar or even identical work . |