Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 2 | ‘ We can not rely on virtue ; it is weak and equivocal , or hidden and unknown ; … we must thus take as our starting-point only the possible and even probable abuse of power , ’ wrote another two generations later . |
| 3 | This no doubt explains why historians writing about Scotland in Mary 's minority have tended to sound more shocked about the activities of the Scottish nobility than historians of other contemporary societies , and find it harder to reconcile the idea of ideological commitment with changes of the political and even religious heart produced by additions to the pocket . |
| 4 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 5 | The lower and even the middle ranks of the bureaucracy were to a considerable extent decentralized and independent of royal power . |
| 6 | By adopting the Scottish term , Free Church , instead of Nonconformist , the movement was showing that it was making a new start with an eye to the twentieth , not to the nineteenth or even eighteenth century . |
| 7 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
| 8 | I slowly began to realize that the Alexander Technique not only covers the physical body , but also the mental , the psychological , the emotional and even the spiritual … a sort of ‘ sorcerer 's stone ’ . |
| 9 | I greatly enjoy sitting down on a Thursday evening to compile a list of all the pleasant and even unpleasant things I have to do , and then luxuriate in my sense of achievement on the following Sunday evening when every item on the list is ticked off . |
| 10 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 11 | Far better to await a further sharp drop in mortgage rates into the high or even middling single digits . |
| 12 | These researchers attempt to provide simple rules which could be applied as productions at the tactical and even strategical levels . |
| 13 | The possibility of automatization of tasks at the tactical or even strategical level appears to be consistent with views of driver behaviour which regard normal driving as being primarily controlled by the simple maintenance of safety margins ( e.g. Summala , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | So the whole day is done by the time you get started , so you can close out the foreign and even the U S domestic edition , domestic news , before you |
| 15 | With the reduction in content required to keep them infallible , it seems unlikely that any interesting beliefs about the past , the future , the unobserved or even the present material surroundings could ever be justified by appeal to the basic . |
| 16 | What the actual or even likely or standard effects of his saying this would be on a hearer , himself included , has little to do with what a reasonable speaker means in saying something . |
| 17 | It can be disconcerting at auction if the vendor or agents acting on the vendor 's behalf bid up the price from the floor in the early or even later stages of the auction . |
| 18 | There were no great men or women either , as Britain settled down resignedly into the second or even third-class status enjoyed by Venice , Spain , Sweden , Holland , and other failed empire-builders of the past . |
| 19 | In this situation , it is much more sensible to be in the second or even third row from the start line , but you should be right at the starboard end . |
| 20 | The Qumran Psalms Scroll has proved that in the second or even first century B.C. the collection of the Psalms was still open to modifications . |
| 21 | In many cases the choice can be made much later , at the beginning of the second or even third year . |
| 22 | I do not want to go too far into the philosophical or even the physiological aspects of the matter . |
| 23 | And standard structures associated with dance and song , together with characteristic melodic types and rhythmic patterns , survive into the eighteenth and even the nineteenth centuries ( symphonic minuets , Viennese waltzes , domestic atrophic songs , Italian opera arias ) . |
| 24 | A fair deal for youth is what is advocated , informed by a recognition of the ease with which boisterous youthful energy can make itself objectionable and even dangerous to others , linked to the necessity of not allowing its troublesome character to dull the awareness of the natural and even positive qualities of youthful misconduct . |
| 25 | For a few weeks the controversy featured in the national and even international press , up-market newspapers carrying spicy stories about the leading protagonists and confused attempts to explain the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism to the man on the Clapham omnibus . |
| 26 | In other words it is a part of the larger and even more complex issue of the relevance of current cost accounting . |
| 27 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 28 | This does not , however , prove that the exclusive or even the main purpose of the decree was religious , i.e. not political or economic . |
| 29 | To be sure , many core groups from the old Democratic coalition voted in large numbers for Reagan , including Catholics , Jews , southerners , blue-collar workers , union members , the poor and even a third of the unemployed . |
| 30 | Prevention meant to Posidonius moderate use of power , responsible treatment of the poor and even of the slaves . |