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

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1 The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power .
2 I slowly began to realize that the Alexander Technique not only covers the physical body , but also the mental , the psychological , the emotional and even the spiritual … a sort of ‘ sorcerer 's stone ’ .
3 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 .
4 So the whole day is done by the time you get started , so you can close out the foreign and even the U S domestic edition , domestic news , before you
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’
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