Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] or even [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So mindless is the wiring of this sensible hygienic behaviour that a drop of oleic acid on an otherwise innocuous piece of wood or even on a live bee results in the removal of the offending object . |
| 2 | Colours can be used as a complement to fonts or even as a substitute ( e.g. a user might choose to display the Emphasized context in a brighter colour rather than in a different font ) . |
| 3 | Many specimens are made from mammoth ivory , but some were made from a variety of stones or even from fired clay . |
| 4 | As Slade LJ put it in Harlingdon Ltd : … the fact that a description has been attributed to the goods , either during the course of negotiations or even in the contract ( if written ) itself , does not necessarily and by itself render the contract one for 'sale by description " . |
| 5 | Few teachers will disagree with the need for diagnostic testing of individuals or even with sensible assessment for monitoring of standards . |
| 6 | In terms of day-to-day influence over policy or even in terms of control over the executive , its powers are risible . |
| 7 | This is not an argument based on a desire for equality or even for justice . |
| 8 | Heinrich Fischer of Freiburg sought to explain the occurrence of jade objects in each of these areas as the outcome of trade or even of migration from the Far East . |
| 9 | The diplomats of 1919 , many of the methods they used and the ways in which they were instructed and controlled , even many of the policies they attempted to carry out , would have been clearly recognisable to their predecessors in the age of Metternich or even of Louis XIV . |
| 10 | They had very little sense of history or even of past and future . |
| 11 | There was no real consistency of approach or even of terminology . |
| 12 | But this is not a book about donkeys or even about faith , at least not directly . |
| 13 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 14 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 15 | Where the Ministry of Defence has occupied land for generations or even for centuries , will my hon. Friend ensure that in disposing of it the Ministry will work as closely as possible with local authorities to ensure that it is developed consistently in accordance with the wishes of local people ? |
| 16 | In the higher dales haymaking was sometimes delayed , for weather and other reasons , until the middle of July or even towards the end of August . |
| 17 | Faults may be enlarged by the sea into caves or even into tunnels through narrow promontories : spectacular examples of the latter are to be observed at Tintagel , north Cornwall , where a fault zone is followed by two through tunnels ( Wilson , 1952 ) ( Fig. 8.5 ) , the more important one being the well-known Merlin 's Cave beneath the Island . |
| 18 | Nor , as he fully intended to sin more , could he with any penitential fidelity see the consolation of confession or even of prayer . |