Example sentences of "and even [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poetry alone is worldwide and limitless ; and even through the mangling of translation , the images of beauty come through a hundred tongues unsullied . |
| 2 | His leg thrust into the volume of her skirts so that it was hard against her pelvis , and even through the multitude of petticoats she could feel the hard , rigid evidence of his ungovernable arousal as he straddled her thigh . |
| 3 | A snort from the pony interrupted her day dreaming ; and immediately her slight body stiffened : walking quickly down the road towards her was a man , and even over the distance she knew he was smiling at her . |
| 4 | They are fun , outrageous , extravagant and even over the top ! |
| 5 | This quarter of the town appears to have contained buildings of quality which ran right up to and even over the defences of the late second century . |
| 6 | Lithography had many advantages over the difficult and complicated processes of copper and steel engraving , and even over the woodcut . |
| 7 | On the surface these remarks appear to be true , and even between the lines immorality occurs regularly . |
| 8 | Rourke 's voice sounded low and even across the silence of the room , and Lissa 's heart began to thump wildly against her ribcage . |
| 9 | The man shook his head , and even across the street , with the sleet between them , Gentle could see how much despair and confusion there was on his face . |
| 10 | Indeed , as this book has argued , party identities were being forged before the succession issue came to the fore , and even during the Exclusion Crisis , party conflict was not solely — or even mainly — about the Catholic succession . |
| 11 | The daily routine is disrupted only by extreme weather and by the rut , and even during the rut it is only the males whose activity is much changed . |
| 12 | While this practice is not to be recommended , it does happen and even without the wording of clause 17.1 Section 2 of the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 could be instrumental . |
| 13 | And even without the separation of ownership and control , business complexity and the ‘ organisational distance ’ of shareholders from managers make owner control over the quality of management decision making , if not over the quality of managers , a fiction , suggesting a need for alternative mechanisms for supervising managerial competence . |
| 14 | Since 1950 the pro-European parties had declined in strength in the legislature , and even without the EDC dilemma , governmental survival at the best of times was problematic . |
| 15 | And even at the zenith of his power Greenwich Village had remained a place shielded from some of his excesses , open to the pull of Europe , a haven for the dissident , the Bohemian , the dropout . |
| 16 | But this operated in very different forms between countries and regions , and even at the level of a single English county . |
| 17 | She was present at the birth of the Blessed Virgin , who was then given over to her care for twelve years , and at the Visitation and the birth of St John the Baptist and even at the birth of the Saviour , when she was allowed to provide bedding for the Virgin and swathing-clothes for the Child . |
| 18 | Jenny had always lived with her parents , and even at the age of twenty-five , she was still tied to the apron strings . |
| 19 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 20 | There was an accumulated credit balance of £300,000 by 1584 ; and even at the end of the reign the Crown had an annual surplus on the ordinary account . |
| 21 | It said that inherently bad foundations and faulty construction meant that the cost of maintaining the old building for any length of time ‘ must be necessarily large ’ , and even at the time of his examination the building was undergoing further repairs . |
| 22 | So the man was happy enough and even at the time , he realized that er it was n't this lad 's ch er mm fault entirely , because the reason he tripped was cos the carpet was loose on top of the stairs . |
| 23 | Prevention meant to Posidonius moderate use of power , responsible treatment of the poor and even of the slaves . |
| 24 | That Labour leader John Smith should try to take advantage of the current tide of moral unease in Britain is perfectly understandable , since his party 's policies generally are hard to distinguish from those of the Liberal Democrats and even of the Conservatives . |
| 25 | The Nigerian Standard , for example , can be described as the mouthpiece of the plateau State Government and even of the plateau State NPP , but not the NPP nationally . |
| 26 | Like Lestat , the vampires can be an immortal god ; the rich capitalist bleeding the workers dry ; the sex fantasy whose kiss can kill ; the personification of death , of pleasure and pain , of blood and even of the essence of life itself . |
| 27 | There is an extensive vocabulary of special terms to describe karst landforms which can be confusing to the uninitiated , and even to the expert . |
| 28 | Much of the latest research points to the survival of party rivalries well into the 1740s , and even to the survival of an organised Tory party . |
| 29 | Because assessments of the spirit of community depend so much on highly variable subjective preferences and values , which may fluctuate according to the individual and the village concerned and even to the mood of the individual at a particular time , it is virtually impossible to generalize about whether there has or has not been a perceptible ‘ decline of community ’ in the English village . |
| 30 | As compared with the way in which computing is usually taken out of the hands of machinists when CNC machine tools are introduced , consideration was given in the optical company to the idea of persuading the operators who cut the surfaces of the lenses to do some of their own computing , and even to the idea of installing computing facilities in the surfacing room itself . |