Example sentences of "or even [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Other people , who are perhaps close to , or even at the right weight , are still not necessarily eating well . |
2 | ‘ I am a partisan of the idea of two inter-governmental conferences , one dealing with economic and monetary union and related institutional reform by the end of 1991 , and another which deals with European political union , one or two years later or even at the same time , ’ Mr Delors told MEPs in Strasbourg yesterday . |
3 | I refer , for example , to the Welsh health common services authority which , under the leadership of Brigadier Peter Crawley , decided that it would locate in the bay rather than at Merthyr Tydfil or some other place along the A470 — or even at the refurbished BBC studios building at Gabalfa , which is where we all thought that authority would go . |
4 | But it will not be obvious on a violin or even on the upper register of a ‘ cello because the higher pitched the sound , the faster and smaller the vibrations become . |
5 | There is no universally accepted pattern for the distribution of governmental services between the various agencies of the state , or even of the appropriate services to be performed collectively through government rather than by private initiative . |
6 | The theory that amplexus is a form of ‘ mate guarding ’ by males , preventing others from mating with the same female , is confirmed by comparing the duration of amplexus in explosive breeding European common frog , only one out Among explosive breeders , competition between males for females is intense and amplexus may last for several days or even for the entire breeding period . |
7 | He believes all the right things but for no reasons at all or even for the wrong reasons . |
8 | Erm and you see people frequently charging across the middle or even to the right-hand side of them because they do n't believe that you know that that they have to you know er be observed and gone round and erm whatever . |
9 | Holywood have already used the Valley synthetic pitch twice during their run to the semi-finals , and may consider going there again , or even to the new pitch at Jordanstown . |
10 | The ethic of abstinence and effort could hardly be applied to the success of the American millionaires of the 1860s and 1870s , or even to the wealthy manufacturer , retired to a life of country-house leisure , still less to his rentier relatives ; to those whose ideal was , in Ruskin 's words : |
11 | Where average family size is only about two children , it is perfectly possible for women to delay marriage quite late — until their mid-30s — and still complete a family at or even above the average size . |
12 | ‘ Behind Bars ’ at the new , huge , non-profit Threadwaxing Space on Broadway is not as you might suspect a show of political art about prisoners ' rights or even about the exotic lives of cocktail waitresses but rather about the stripe in art . |
13 | Rather than confront the exchange 's Byzantine politics again to try to revive the merger talks , a nascent derivatives association is considering starting a brand-new options market , possibly under LIFFE 's arm — or even with the European Options Exchange . |
14 | Of course the fluctuations of Epsilon Aurigæ are noticeable with binoculars , or even with the naked eye , at the time of eclipse ; Eta makes a suitable comparison star . |
15 | In the Whirlwind , the chances are you 'll feel much more comfortable doing the ski bars in Aviemore than walking in the hills , or even down the high street at home . |
16 | Endometriosis is the answer : a condition in which tissues resembling the endometrium , or the lining of the womb , grow either within the muscular walls of the uterus or even outside the uterine cavity altogether — in the ovaries or the bowel , for instance . |
17 | But it was already obvious that the horn blast had come from elsewhere entirely — not from the Halfling camp or even from the human regiments of the Empire army , but from the fierce goblin Wolf Riders who were hacking and biting at will as Halflings ran hither and thither in blind panic . |
18 | In the long run , the most durable achievements of the age in which Europe dominated the world may seem to have been brought about less by political dominion than by such impalpable but irresistible influences as these , by the corrosive effect of its economic institutions , or even by the simple desire to imitate . |
19 | Decorated metalwork and pottery can , in addition , be studied by the measurement of elements in designs to determine which objects may have been made at the same source , using the same tools , or even by the same craftsman . |
20 | As Sampras , who had suddenly found the steel and resilience that he could have done with in his match with Leconte 48 hours earlier , or even in the early stages of the third set against Forget , produced the lob to the baseline which made it 15–40 from the home team 's point of view , Noah sunk back into his seat in disbelief . |
21 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
22 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
23 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
24 | It is now evident in increasingly complex systems , such as the dog kidney ( ) or even in the human hand ( ) , that the release of these mediators modulates the actions of endothelin . |
25 | As we all know from personal experience , intellect will often come up with two very different solutions to the same problem in two different individuals , or even in the same individual on two different occasions . |
26 | Unfortunately , in modern society , our ‘ own ’ are rarely living in the same town or even in the same county as us , which makes the ideal situation very difficult to achieve . |
27 | Natural law and rights theories , positivism and contextualism , are in this sense no longer incompatible theories of the law but enter into the legal languages or dialects which are spoken in different or even in the same legal systems . |
28 | How often do you get out for a walk in the countryside or even in the local park ? |
29 | A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world . |
30 | But there was nothing in the available forensic evidence to prove that Libya was the sole author of the atrocity or even among the prime movers . |