Example sentences of "a [adj] or even " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( For example , the frequency of the collocate ’ pay ’ in the context of ’ money ’ would be compared with its frequency outside of that context : this may return a high positive value , indicating a high degree of association , or a low or even negative value indicating non-association or even repulsion . ) |
| 2 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 3 | This is the major drawback of the postal method , where response rates , usually around 30–40 per cent , are lower than in face-to-face research , which can hope to achieve a 70 or even 80 per cent response . |
| 4 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 5 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 6 | The coordinating nurse on each shift ‘ liaises ’ with the admissions office regarding bed availability , and will frequently act as a ‘ disturbance handler ’ and ‘ spokesperson ’ for the ward — with the aid of an established ward standard — if the total patient dependency score and staff skill mix ratio is not compatible with maintaining a high or even safe level of patient care . |
| 7 | Most customers come by car , and do their shopping on a weekly or even monthly basis , so hypermarkets have large car parks . |
| 8 | While pluralist writers can not be interpreted as suggesting that there is a perfect or even extensive distribution of political power through the mechanism of interest participation in government decision making , — ’ what pluralists do argue is that more groups are involved in making decisions than is suggested by Marxist and elitists , who claim that a particular class or group has a monopoly of influence . |
| 9 | In Vienna , the architect Hans Hollein has produced small new shopfronts that are a sensation ; so there is no reason why appropriately sited new shopfronts , in a contemporary or even futuristic style , can not sometimes add zip to a high street . |
| 10 | The Oxford English Dictionary refers to the following gloss : ‘ a meaningless or even misleading phrase in English ’ . |
| 11 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 12 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
| 13 | So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible . |
| 14 | Enterprise democracy , that is , was presented as the complement to social planning of investment at a national or even supra-national level . |
| 15 | Brighthelmstone , without a natural or even man-made harbour , became the principal fishing town of the central Sussex area . |
| 16 | The test is not what the defendants contemplated as a likely or even an inevitable consequence of their conduct ; it is ‘ what is in truth the object in the minds of the combiners when they acted as they did ? ’ |
| 17 | Each of the organisations with which we had contact was a major or even the dominant local employer , and each was located in an area of high unemployment . |
| 18 | We are starting with the press that the need for a National Airport 's policy I can not think of a number , a major or even a concentrate all these airfields and resources in one region . |
| 19 | Voting is not just a matter of knowing how to put a cross on a piece of paper , nor of having a rough or even quite refined view of the policies of the major political parties . |
| 20 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 21 | It will build this on a ledge if one is conveniently available , but it is perfectly capable of fixing the nest to a vertical or even an overhanging wall of rock . |
| 22 | There is also an income , usually a small or even negative net figure when costs are taken into account , for such trading services as markets , slaughterhouses , aerodromes , cemeteries and crematoria , and passenger transport . |
| 23 | Far better have many moots with a small or even no audience than one moot with a large audience . |
| 24 | Do n't expect a systematic or even chronological history . |
| 25 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 26 | It is finding that the phrase ‘ equal opportunity ’ is usually a meaningless compromise ; if the good things of life are really dependent on opportunity — which everyone knows they are not ; would the rich and powerful really be so careless ? — what human agency has the hubris to imagine it can deal out opportunity in a fair or even meritorious fashion ? |
| 27 | It has not sufficiently emphasised that the Church itself is in the process of becoming and through its disobedience can present a distorted or even completely erroneous picture of the Christian life . |
| 28 | It is , however , questionable whether Manne 's ‘ negative ’ insider dealing conception ( that is , not selling on the basis of inside information ) is a dominant or even significant means of insider dealing . |
| 29 | It locates bureaucracy in a class context rather than in a constitutional or even institutional context . |
| 30 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has awarded its " Green Con of the Year Award " for 1992 to Meyer International , owner of the Jewsons chain of builders ' merchants , for attempting to persuade the public that the timber trade has a marginal or even beneficial role in the battle to save the world 's forests . |