Example sentences of "even [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Land and building prices are tumbling — far faster even than in the West . |
| 4 | More even than in the free invention of fantasies , or the creation of fictions , the imagination is exercised on the actual and the existent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But characters will be much more present , be seen in much greater , convoluted depth even than in the detective novel . |
| 7 | Michael Marland has talked about the disappearance of deference and I think that 's the biggest change really that the kind of instant erm response to authority has gone and that has good and bad sides in it , so more is demanded of the teacher because his authority has to be earned , much more even than in the past I think . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I would say that , if his life is such that he has to use a drug , the welfare is poor , even if at the moment of using the drug there is no unpleasant subjective feeling . |
| 10 | Such are the rigours of their adulthood ( working in bons , never eating till 11pm ) that many Hoorays remember their schooldays as the happiest time of their lives ; their schoolfriends are those they feel most at ease with , even if at the time they could n't stand them . |
| 11 | This regulation is aimed at securing some of the policy goals sought by governments , even if at the expense of others . |
| 12 | Even if at the moment of decision the patient is fit to make it , his will may have been overborne by the undue influence of another , or by deception or misinformation of a significant kind . |
| 13 | Even if at the time of sale the purchaser does not intend such rationalisation , it will not wish to fetter its discretion to do so in the future and to be able to adapt the business as it wishes to changing market circumstances . |
| 14 | I mean I 'm quite happy up there , you know even if at the end I do n't get to end I mean I 'd like to get |
| 15 | It is noticeable that though Derrida is a philosopher , albeit one interested in literature , and has always worked in an academic-philosophical context , even if on the margins of the subject , his major impact in North America has been in literature departments . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whatever is ultimately decided by the boards and the UKCC it is still in your own and your patients interests for you to undertake some form of formal updating , even if for the moment this is left to your own and your employer 's discretion . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You can surely sympathize with this self-protective caution , even if by the nature of the case you can not wholly share it . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | It does not do so by ordering the doctors to treat which , even if within the court 's powers , would be an abuse of them or by ordering the minor to accept treatment , but by authorising the doctors to treat the minor in accordance with their clinical judgment , subject to any restrictions which the court may impose . |
| 22 | If you retain real career ambitions , this is a harsh truth which you can not entirely ignore , even if in the end you decide that you must not abandon your legal rights of redress . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Elena received a fee for permission to purchase what was by Romanian standards a luxurious limousine , even if in the West the car might have been only a family saloon . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Sarah was put in care at a very young age — and was on the game even while under the supervi-sion of social workers . |
| 27 | There are observations of the House of Lords in Hunter v. Hunter to the effect that accordingly the transfer is wholly void even as between the transferor and transferee . |
| 28 | Middle-of-the-range works have maintained their appeal , even as to the kind of collector who bought them when they were painted |
| 29 | By contrast , many studies of objects such as buildings , which discuss the links between architectural form and a set of ideals such as scholasticism or imperialism , indicate the degree to which such objects are significant as propositional forms , even as to the nature of the world ( e.g. Panofsky 1957 ; King ed. 1980 ) . |
| 30 | There has been nothing to fire the voters ' imagination — no spectacular clashes over policy , no exciting face to face confrontations between leading personalities , no suspense even as to the outcome , for that has been a foregone conclusion for months : the Right will win , and in all probability with a thumping landslide majority . |