Example sentences of "or even " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complex social problems have to be tackled including homelessness , imprisonment , birth of an infected child and death of one or even both parents . |
| 2 | ‘ I joined Amnesty in 1968 when there were n't any teams or even research regions . |
| 3 | Some rankings have more than the approval of the author of a guide , and are attested by other authorities , local or even national . |
| 4 | It was a medium of the grand form and of the surface , whether polychrome or monochrome ; it was not a positive medium of the middle forms , like oak , or even usually of the assertive instrument , as bronze can be . |
| 5 | Mixed exhibitions tend to have rather perfunctory introductions and catalogue entries ; the same is often true of exhibitions arranged by groups of artists , though they may have statements of aim or even an artists ' manifesto . |
| 6 | Some trial and error should eliminate the laziest papers , whose critics do no more than pillage catalogue introductions , or even press releases . |
| 7 | It did n't say ‘ something helpful ’ or ‘ enriching ’ or even ‘ extremely valuable ’ . |
| 8 | Leaving off with the ‘ imaginative fury ’ might make it possible to ‘ unlock meanings that fictionalising has obscured , distended , or even inverted ’ . |
| 9 | Roth has left off with his mythologising fury — and his memoir lets us know that the benefits that come to the writer who tries , or even seems , to stick to the facts may amount to something more than those of hindsight . |
| 10 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 11 | Amateur theatre flourishes almost everywhere , and when you 're beginning it can not be stressed too strongly that it is desirable to obtain some actual stage experience before jumping into the big pool of drama school , or even summer school . |
| 12 | The range is obviously very wide , and you may find yourself in a Greek tragedy , or even a modern ‘ exercise ’ play such as Games by James Saunders , where the student may add to the text by research material which can be incorporated in the project . |
| 13 | There is nothing theoretically which hinders religion being an ingredient , or even predominating in the nationalist mix . |
| 14 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 15 | A further significant change in political religious attitudes occurred with the liberalization of legislation prohibiting contraceptives to be bought or sold , or even imported into the state . |
| 16 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 17 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 18 | Why not if you no longer believe in God or even inspiration and genius ? |
| 19 | If I could only resolve that lower right hand panel though , he wrote , or even decide once and for all to leave it empty , then perhaps the boredom would disappear . |
| 20 | Painting nearly always fifty years or even a hundred behind the times . |
| 21 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 22 | Or even if there was any plan at all . |
| 23 | The aim of this report is not to demand that brewers turn the block back to 1620 , 1720 , 1820 or even to 1920 ; pubs have to make money , and have to adapt to some extent to changing needs and expectations . |
| 24 | Those coaching inns which already existed were frequently refronted or even remodelled in the latest Georgian style . |
| 25 | Many emerge from ‘ refurbishment ’ with little of their original partitions , fittings or even masonry remaining . |
| 26 | Or even added to others already there . |
| 27 | ‘ Or even master ? ’ put in Ethel . |
| 28 | ‘ First he probably smeared a little horseradish sauce or even some colourless Vaseline on the righthand side of the carving knife . |
| 29 | But it 's well worth it : sweet and juicy with a lovely flavour and large fruits , three or even two to a pound . |
| 30 | Both these plants are hardy and although not in the front rank of ornamentals , are worth growing in a large border or even on the bank of a stream or lake provided they are kept away from the wet margin . |