Example sentences of "or even [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils who have done well at Standard Grade and wish to specialise in computing may study for Higher Computing Studies or even Certificate of Sixth Year Studies Computing . |
| 2 | But anecdote suggests that some parents use the physical appearance of the head as their guide — or even firmness of handshake ! |
| 3 | It is an arresting paradox — although , admittedly , only a seeming one — that where child-rearing veers to the exact opposite extreme to that represented by the Schreber case and becomes a liberal democracy , or even anarchy in microcosm , the eventual consequence , if I am correct , may well be a totalitarian macrocosm . |
| 4 | It is a pity that the editors have not provided anything in the way of an introduction , links between contributions , or even subdivision of the papers . |
| 5 | I have witnessed many occasions when foreigners have unintentionally caused misunderstanding or even offence in speaking to an English person , but can remember very few occasions when this could be attributed to ‘ using the wrong intonation ’ except when a mistake caused a difference in apparent grammatical meaning ( something that is dealt with in the next chapter ) . |
| 6 | In non-fiction , the other people whose words and thoughts form part of the information may be historical or contemporary figures , or they may be groups , or even humanity in general . |
| 7 | The threat of disciplinary action or even dismissal from the Library Association is empty when one can practise as a librarian without membership of the professional association . |
| 8 | Right , correction , one lady does n't , but those who do go back to the Property Committee and I would say that erm if this were to happen , and the County Council were to make it a permanent site in that particular position , we could lay a charge of gross negligence , or even mis-appropriation of assets . |
| 9 | Most of the teaching is still done by hourly-paid staff who enjoy none of the benefits such as holiday — or sick pay or even protection of employment . |
| 10 | Indeed , reports showing a reduction , or even disappearance of the asthma with surgical repair or medical management of the reflux have further strengthened support for a GOR-asthma association . |
| 11 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 12 | Experience has shown that this can lead to rivalry or even friction between the two . |
| 13 | The disagreements , or even lack of communication , between , for instance , Hegelians , Marxists , phenomenologists and Thomists have often been deep . |
| 14 | It is an acute and intelligently framed plan , which suggests that the encouragement of , or even provision for , large-scale recreation in these remote heartlands is quite inappropriate , that pressure needs to be taken off , not increased . |
| 15 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 16 | And Moffat himself seemed hopeful of a political solution based on an independent Vietnam which was to be associated with or even part of the French Union . |
| 17 | Er I was fully aware of the fact that er you know , some people say , particularly in the fitting departments where experience had taught the fitters , having been given a free hand , er that they accumulated all the parts for a job , or even part of the job , they did certain assemblies you know , until they got all the part pieces assembled ready to combine it into the main unit , erm that experience er was being overtaken by an introduction of smaller units being assembled you know , bit by bit as they were being produced in the machine shop . |
| 18 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 19 | What is rejected is the necessity or even possibility of maintaining or augmenting one 's social position through violence . |
| 20 | This technique is highly precise , to the year or even season of felling , if the sample is adequate . |
| 21 | Although these data are extremely useful , it can not assess reflux of potentially harmful materials such as bile , which has a near neutral pH , or even food with a near neutral pH that may contain other damaging agents such as pepsin . |
| 22 | Certainly , as he stared out eastwards , Ramsay could perceive no signs of alarm or even movement in town or beyond . |
| 23 | Since anger is the only respected currency , it becomes extraordinarily difficult for genuine feelings of distress or even sorrow to be expressed by prisoners . |
| 24 | The list of accessibility of professional support does not mention any help , advice , or even referral to physicians specialising in relief of pain in cancer . |
| 25 | It could be argued that interviews with competent librarians and subject specialists in these fields , or even examination of the holdings lists of specialist libraries in these subjects , would have produced exactly the same journal lists as have been arrived at by co-citation analysis , at a much lower cost . |
| 26 | The relationship between party and state varies between greater or lesser amounts of party control of , or even fusion with , the state apparatus ( Sandford 1985 ) . |
| 27 | Ford was unwilling to apply such sanctions as were available to him , and ‘ showed no proclivity for arm twisting , or for that matter for doing anything that was likely to incur the wrath or even displeasure of another . ’ |
| 28 | The palaeoenvironments also appear to have been little different from those of the afropithecins , with closed woodland-forest indicated for Fort Ternan , although some authors infer open country or even grassland for this site . |
| 29 | Their case would have been vastly more plausible ; and a decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party might have been seen as a mandate for the promotion of industrial democracy in the trade unions ' model of it , and as an implicit declaration of public opinion in favour of the consequential abridgement or even abrogation of the rights of ownership . |
| 30 | When money ran short , whether through neglect , illness or even death of the breadwinner , women would resort first to kin and to neighbours . |