Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] [noun sg] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 2 | The creative activity went on to the end of the Venetian and Ragusan republics at the turn of the nineteenth century and even beyond . |
| 3 | Besides Maxim Gorky and a daughter of L. Tolstoy , it included the President of the Second Duma and even S. N. Prokopovich , the Minister of Food in the Provisional Government of 1917 , who was neither a Bolshevik nor a Menshevik . |
| 4 | But of course it is sometimes not possible , because historical research demonstrates conclusively that the kind of standardised written language which can be used to represent ethnicity or nationality is a rather late historic construction — mostly of the 19th century or even later — and in any case quite often it does not exist at all , as between Serbs and Croats . |
| 5 | The fact that we have bombed Iraq , a rather small Third World country , back into the 19th century or even earlier ; the likelihood of continuing violence in the Middle East ; the probable Lebanisation of Iraq and Kuwait the increasing difficulty in finding a solution to the Palestinian problem ; the increased threat of terrorism ; the erosion of democracy — all these issues will stimulate opposition to a long-term North-South confrontation . |
| 6 | Most , in both categories , left after taking the School Certificate ( if not sooner ) , but a trickle went on into the sixth form and even to the universities . |
| 7 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 8 | It was at this moment , with a faint feeling that made the hair on his head prickle , that Coffin got the first intimation that even if it was not his case , he himself was in it . |
| 9 | In certain areas of the country industrialization had been a slow but continuous process since the seventeenth century or even earlier ; and it is a process which has not finished yet . |
| 10 | Manufacturing industries , too , were finding existing sites , many dating from the end of the last century or even the 1930s , becoming cramped . |
| 11 | Although some attempts at tackling air pollution problems date back to the last century or even earlier , most countries introduced their strategy for air pollution control in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s . |
| 12 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 13 | ‘ The practice was common in the 18th century or even before , ’ says Lachlan . |
| 14 | Mr and Mrs Wormwood looked forward enormously to the time when they could pick their little daughter off and flick her away , preferably into the next county or even further than that . |
| 15 | But it became obvious on the next pitch that even had I been so inspired we would not have progressed much further . |
| 16 | Watson ( 1986 ) suggests how some of the communication problems can be surmounted when in contact with minority ethnic groups who have difficulty with a second language but even within one language there can be several local vocabularies which strangers can not understand . |
| 17 | Perhaps smacking should be regarded as a last resort and even then as something of a failure in communication between parent and child . |