Example sentences of "or even [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terminals need to be tight if good contact is to be maintained , abut if they are very tight they may distort or even break if they are pulled up at one end to remove them . |
| 2 | Patients needing major surgery in some parts of Britain are suffering or even dieing because they 're considered too old for treatment . |
| 3 | There was no way the bodies could be cremated or even interred unless the coroner 's office was satisfied . |
| 4 | He could be sued or even prosecuted if anything went wrong . |
| 5 | They preferred to isolate the area of discontent , reduce any crowd to its hard-core and then to move , or even wait until after people had dispersed before taking action . |
| 6 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’ |
| 7 | The demands on the human operator are difficult to quantify or even to describe because the process is essentially an interactive one . |
| 8 | Some of Britain 's museums could fall into disrepair or even close because of a shortage of funds , according to a new report . |
| 9 | Personally , I find that I sometimes get new ideas while I am engaged in activities that have nothing to do with my research at all , such as gardening , painting in the house , or even shaving when I get up in the morning . |
| 10 | The flexibility of hydrogels means that the lenses can be folded and inserted through a smaller incision than conventional ‘ hard ’ lens , or even inserted while dehydrated and allowed to hydrate in the eye . |
| 11 | If a particular monkey is chased and harried for as long as ten minutes , it may become so stressed that eventually it gives up trying to escape and sits to face its death without screaming or even resisting when the hunters finally seize it . |
| 12 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 13 | That 's why er many authors insist on that aspect of child sex abuse , that erm apparent consent or even y'know when it seems that the child is expressing some curiosity about that these activities , nevertheless it 's abusive . |
| 14 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |
| 15 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
| 16 | It would be nice to know who these nobles were ; or even to know whether the chronicler 's choice of phrase was due to ignorance or a desire for brevity or for the sake of discretion . |
| 17 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |