Example sentences of "even [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 2 | He is being buffeted from all corners — a victim of circumstance trapped at the centre of a party more divided even than in the final days of Lady Thatcher . |
| 3 | More even than in the free invention of fantasies , or the creation of fictions , the imagination is exercised on the actual and the existent . |
| 4 | Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote . |
| 5 | For example there is a higher chance of a white woman attaining professional or executive position ( even if on the lower rungs and with less promotion chances than white men ) than a black person of either sex . |
| 6 | This , however , does not mean that all the shares , even if of the same nominal value and of the same class , will necessarily be issued at the same price , or that , even if they are , all shareholders will necessarily be treated alike as regards calls for the unpaid part . |
| 7 | The girls were always willing and always high-caste , even if like the Creole beauty , Solitaire , of Live And Let Die ( 1954 ) they were also half-caste : |
| 8 | Even if in the long run ostlers and grooms become garage mechanics and assembly-line workers , this may take some time and the social dislocations could be very severe . |
| 9 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Reverting to the decision at first instance in the Leighton case , the report of the argument shows that the provisions of section 82(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1925 were drawn to the attention of Luxmoore J. We feel no doubt that he would have appreciated that , even in the absence of a successful plea of forgery or non est factum , the section would in terms have conferred a discretion on the court to rectify the charges register , even as against the innocent chargees . |
| 11 | Jim never escapes the torment of self-doubt , even when in the remote kingdom of Patusan he has given all his energy and his intelligence , as well as his physical courage , to settling internal feuds and establishing prosperity — when , in fact , he has become to his people ‘ Lord Jim ’ . |
| 12 | In each case the court held the promise to be binding on the party making it , even though under the old common law it might be difficult to find any consideration for it . |
| 13 | She has had hundreds of letters from adults sexually abused as children saying ‘ keep going , that they wished someone had diagnosed it in their childhood and describing the trauma they still suffer as adults even though to the outside world they are perfectly normal , respectable people . |
| 14 | Tiger Watson was wounded ; Donald Roy killing his friend 's attacker , for this was a personal battle of man against man in the shadows , even though at the same time there was the impersonal hammer from machine-guns and 20mm cannons firing from beyond the basin and its locks . |
| 15 | The Greeks found this agnostic approach yielded a sense of presence and bliss that transfigured their lives : it gave them the discipline to apprehend a reality infinitely greater than they could conceive , even though at the same time its absence was acutely felt . |
| 16 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 18 | even though for the next little bit I 'll be seeing her myself as well , but , somebody has to go , only an added incentive so , so is n't it ? |
| 19 | So I had a market cornered and good access to American trips because I used to like writing about that , even though on the early stuff I must have affected a punk rock stance long after it was all over . ’ |
| 20 | For non-Nazi , ‘ national-conservative ’ power-élites in the economy and in the army , Hitler 's ‘ charisma ’ had in itself never been a decisive factor , even though by the early 1930s it seems clear that substantial sectors of especially the ‘ intellectual élite ’ had succumbed in varying degrees to the Führer cult . |
| 21 | To make a profession out of psychical research was hardly possible , even though by the 1880s there were career structures in more-established sciences . |
| 22 | You should gather all your ideas on the same general point into the same section of the essay , so that the essay seems to move forward consistently rather than jump around ; you can test whether the essay does have this sort of organisation by working out an appropriate title for each section and paragraph ( even though in the final version of the essay your paragraphs at least will lose their titles ) . |
| 23 | Sadly the voices of reason are overwhelmed or ignored , even though in the long-term they are safer guardians of our values . |
| 24 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
| 25 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
| 26 | Just as the disease process has moments when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse , so also in relapse there will also be times when things appear to be getting better even though in the long-term they are getting progressively worse . |
| 27 | In this sense collective bargaining is not only confined to formalised , written agreements between trade unions and employers ' bodies , it can also include informal , collective dealings and negotiations at local level , both on wage and non-wage issues , between managements and works councils or similar bodies in countries like Austria and West Germany , even though in the latter country collective bargaining and the co-determination mechanisms are supposed to be kept separate . |
| 28 | We concentrate on civil matters , even though in the criminal context there is the analogous feature of ‘ plea bargaining . ’ |
| 29 | Designed to nip in the bud any incipient growth in villages , it was successful , so far as the city was concerned , probably because it did no more than sanction the existing situation , even though in the fifteenth century the trade had flourished at Hartlebury , which remained an important centre of the specialised craft of fulling . |
| 30 | The eleventh-century claim that Merewalh , king of the Magonsaete , was also a son of Penda can not be authenticated , even though in the 740s Aethelbald , king of the Mercians , appears to describe Mildrith ( later regarded as the daughter of Merewalh and Aebbe ( Eafe ) , a Kentish princess ) as his kinswoman ( CS 177 : S 91 ) ; and the likelihood is not that the Magonsaete were a Mercian creation but that Mercian control was being imposed upon their territory across the mid-seventh century . |