Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] even [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian was at his best , he maintained , not as an analyst but as ‘ a craftsman of synthesis , a weaver of other men 's threads ( and some of his own ) into patterns which they had not foreseen or even suspected ’ ; and he was forthright in claiming , at a time when it was not fashionable , that the contemporary historian was just as capable of such synthesis as historians of earlier centuries . |
| 2 | Not without opposition from other sections of the bureaucracy especially those.in Finance ministries , MITI argued that long-term self-reliance for Japan would be delayed or even undermined by following its apparent comparative advantage into labour intensive sectors . |
| 3 | Again , because treasures served to denote prominent persons , they are most likely to be listed or even described in written records , as well as featuring in works of art . |
| 4 | Several studies have suggested that delaying cord clamping protects against the respiratory distress syndrome , although others have failed to confirm or even refuted this . |
| 5 | This trend was then halted or even reversed thereafter as large companies especially in manufacturing transferred their excess labour into smaller subcontractors or satellite companies . |
| 6 | He does not believe that it is necessary to like or even respect your movie co-star . |
| 7 | Most pleasure anglers , especially regular night-anglers , use a rucksack to carry their gear and a bed-chair to sit or even lie on . |
| 8 | If anyone believed that by wearing , bestowing or even consuming particular substances it was possible to avert poison and other evils or positively to advance a cause , it was comforting enough to ensure the continuity of such beliefs . |
| 9 | Indeed , one of the hallmarks of a living party system is that the parties develop or even modify their positions over time , as they seek to adapt to changing political circumstances . |
| 10 | They were forbidden to preach or even to meet together for prayer . |
| 11 | The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities . |
| 12 | This might explain Shell 's reluctance to commercialise or even patent the reaction . |
| 13 | You may find that your weight has fluctuated or even gone up . |
| 14 | Since the airline is not a party to such contract it is not bound to carry or even to store the goods referred to in the house air waybill . |
| 15 | At the other extreme — where mineral working would involve ‘ too great injury to the comfort and living conditions of the people in the area or to amenities generally ’ — mineral working can be limited or even prevented . |
| 16 | ‘ The freedom to travel independently is taken for granted by most of us and only assumes its real importance when it is limited or even removed , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 17 | One can only start to amend , delete or even discuss the relevance of particular standard' provisions once their basic purpose is understood . |
| 18 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 19 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 20 | Of course , in theory , the mirror image rule makes printed forms matter since it encourages or even forces parties receiving documents to read them carefully . |
| 21 | Some degeneration can be treated or even reversed and doctors and researchers in our hospitals have made great strides forward . |
| 22 | On the reverse , less positive side , the principle of inverse irreversibility explains the phenomenon we observe when scientists and other professional experts refuse to accept or even consider other scientists ' , other experts ' objectively-arrived-at truths when these tend to undermine or place in disrepute their own objectively arrived-at truths . |
| 23 | That alone makes the patterns in social relations more complicated , but in addition we must analyse processes of change to judge how far the character of these structures is being modified or even transformed . |
| 24 | In view of the problems , over time many regions have modified or even abandoned the RAWP cross-boundary flow adjustment method for their subregional allocation . |
| 25 | They would be unable at times to concentrate or even to stay awake , It is very noticeable that Barratt required " as far as possible " the attendance of the children at school during the winter " when they are unemployed " . |
| 26 | This duty also prevents an employee from taking advantage of any approach which is initiated by a customer or supplier even though the employee did not seek or even encourage it , as happened in Sanders ' case . |
| 27 | In addition to Quetzalcoatl , the feathered serpent god of learning , he talked of Tezcatlipoca , the sky god , Tlaloc , the rain god , and the name I have most difficulty in pronouncing or even spelling , and the most terrible god of all — Huitzilopochtli . |
| 28 | Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails . |
| 29 | Not to be trusted or even understood but to be treated with caution and sometimes indulged . |
| 30 | The point that the basic rate taxpayer must note is that once all the charges — in particular the annual management fee — are taken into account , then the net benefit of being in the PEP could be seriously eroded or even disappear altogether . |