Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] and even " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the mind must be in readiness for new ways of seeing so that it is already poised for the marvellous and even the illogical . |
| 2 | The Victorian obsession with comfort has some relation to this conviction , for the first and even the final — test of a home is whether it makes the visitor feel at ease . |
| 3 | This Government has no time at all for the poor and even less time for people who become poor as a result of their savage policies , the policies which cause high interest rates , rising unemployment and all because of it 's obsession with inflation . |
| 4 | Bureaux in the main are not purpose-built and even if they have been especially partitioned for the purpose-built and even if usually enough total space to consider the ergonomics of advice work . |
| 5 | There will be a Krypton Factor room for the energetic , A Kind Of Loving for the romantic and even a conference suite named after the inventor of TV , John Logie Baird . |
| 6 | The French translation of the above extract from A Hero from Zero manages to maintain ‘ I ’ as theme in all instances as the original and even adds one of its own : instead of It was bitter , but funny , the French literally goes ‘ I felt bitterness , but also amusement ’ . |
| 7 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 8 | This no doubt explains why historians writing about Scotland in Mary 's minority have tended to sound more shocked about the activities of the Scottish nobility than historians of other contemporary societies , and find it harder to reconcile the idea of ideological commitment with changes of the political and even religious heart produced by additions to the pocket . |
| 9 | I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature . |
| 10 | Prevention meant to Posidonius moderate use of power , responsible treatment of the poor and even of the slaves . |
| 11 | In other words it is a part of the larger and even more complex issue of the relevance of current cost accounting . |
| 12 | ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’ |
| 13 | A fair deal for youth is what is advocated , informed by a recognition of the ease with which boisterous youthful energy can make itself objectionable and even dangerous to others , linked to the necessity of not allowing its troublesome character to dull the awareness of the natural and even positive qualities of youthful misconduct . |
| 14 | The office of president had been discredited and the balance of power in the political system had shifted in favour of a revived and even more inchoate congress . |
| 15 | Previous issues from November 1990 to the last edition show that the major features have been on Gabby and Steffi , Zvereva and Martina and Monica , Capriati and Monica , Anke , Jana Novotna and Arantxa respectively , evidence of a fair and even representation of all women players by Tennis World . |
| 16 | This was to be a problem which plagued the Soviet government throughout the 1920s and even today remains a problem of the first magnitude . |
| 17 | Each one must be set up with fail-safe guides for a true and even curve . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When models are constructed from such premisses , for example , there is a tendency to view government as a restrictive and even as a repressive agency . |
| 20 | Just as it is easier to blame witches , agents of the Devil , for male impotence , famine , drought , war , plague and so forth than it is to blame God whom , in spite of all evidence to the contrary , we insist on regarding as a benign and even moral being . |
| 21 | And standard structures associated with dance and song , together with characteristic melodic types and rhythmic patterns , survive into the eighteenth and even the nineteenth centuries ( symphonic minuets , Viennese waltzes , domestic atrophic songs , Italian opera arias ) . |
| 22 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 23 | Both are creamy and slightly sharp with a close and even blueing . |
| 24 | You must swing normally , with a smooth and even tempo , ensuring you complete both the backswing and make a well-balanced follow-through . |
| 25 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 26 | The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town , but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture . |
| 27 | ‘ The Catholic Church … was unique among the larger religious bodies by the fact that so many of the most devout were drawn from the working-class and even from the poor . ’ |
| 28 | It seems that the system of central planning , adopted after the Communist Party took power in 1948 , did bring some economic progress in the 1950s and even into the 1960s . |
| 29 | For a few weeks the controversy featured in the national and even international press , up-market newspapers carrying spicy stories about the leading protagonists and confused attempts to explain the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism to the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 30 | Remember that what became the Swann Inquiry started life under the chairmanship of Anthony Ramp ton as an investigation into the causes of ‘ West Indian ’ ‘ underachievement ’ and , in a curious and even paradoxical discourse of exclusion and inclusion , entitled its interim report West Indian Children in Our Schools ( DES , 1981 ) ! |