Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [conj] even a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 2 | A hat was all right or an instrument case or even a scarf with knotted corners . |
| 3 | When we went ashore , the transport was not always an air-conditioned coach but sometimes a rickety taxi , a horse cab or even a farm trailer hauled by a tractor . |
| 4 | Fergie has been saying that he was so concerned about my life-style away from football he called in Sir Matt Busby , the club doctor and even a parish priest to try to get me sorted out . |
| 5 | It 's still worth having your own cotton piqué shirt with soft collar , a good satin bow-tie and even a black or deep red pleated cummerbund as the cost of hiring extras does mount up . |
| 6 | The facilities offered by this fine hotel range from a choice of restaurants and bars to a shopping village and even a resident tennis coach . |
| 7 | Basically , all you need to grow flowers for pressing is a window sill or even a grow-bag ! |
| 8 | Version 6.20 of Logitech 's versatile MouseMan driver software is supplied and this offers various utilities like programmable mouse buttons , Windows pointer customisation and even an option for the pointer to temporarily grow as it moves . |
| 9 | To celebrate the arrival of two notables in town , I approached the mayor , well known for his Butchers Arms , and asked him to send a joint off the Old Dun Cow or even a Bulls Head . |
| 10 | Speak to a Kenyan distance runner in the high hills of the Rift Valley , a Bulgarian hurdler , a Soviet pole vaulter or even a Chinese high jumper and though they may not understand a word of what you are saying , when you utter the words ‘ Andy Norman ’ lights will shine in eyes and heads will nod in recognition and they will search , sometimes desperately , for an interpreter . |
| 11 | There 's not a lecture theatre or even a student bar in sight … but this is the way De Montfort University in Milton Keynes and Leicester hopes to trawl the best of undergraduates |
| 12 | A heavy contact to the opponent 's face may not merit just a verbal warning ; after consultation with the other members of the panel , the referee can go directly to a full point penalty or even a disqualification . |
| 13 | A hawfinch has such a powerful bill that with straightforward muscle power it can crack a cherry stone or even an olive pit . |
| 14 | ‘ Once in the VAT field it must however be appreciated that a business could go over the 7,200 threshold , as a result of increased business activity or even an increase in the rate of VAT . |
| 15 | Morrissey has a lovely singing voice and even a Cure roadie will find the tune charming . ’ |
| 16 | So alongside the tractors , is a 1930s Royal Enfield motorcycle and even a horsedrawn hoe called a Hereford skimmer . |
| 17 | Modern technology has seen to that , giving them a machine to make their early morning tea and even an electronic handset to save them having to get out of their chairs in the evening to change the television channel . |
| 18 | A little used dining room or even a corridor or hall ? |
| 19 | Others feel ill at just the smell of cigarette smoke or even a glass of wine . |
| 20 | ‘ I speak at customer sales meetings to help them understand what Tencel is all about as well as prepare trade advertising or even a video to assist our mill customers launch their Tencel fabric collections . ’ |
| 21 | But at the meeting 's close there was no mention of a formal constitution , policy statement or even an agreed date for the first committee meeting . |
| 22 | But now everyone in Faringdon has a folly dining room , there 's the folly pub and even a folly newspaper , but there 's only one folly tower . |
| 23 | Modern machines are blessed with a minimum of tail area and even a small coating on the leading edge of the tailplane may cause uncontrollable stability problems . |
| 24 | There 's a sofa and armchair , a writing table , music from a threechannel radio and even a telephone to keep in touch with the landlubbers back home . |
| 25 | What matters is that a limitation has been set ; and now if a child brings out a gun , a knife , a rope ladder or even a box of matches you can check with the list and then either stay in role and say " You may have meant to bring that rope ladder , but it 's not here " , or come out of role and discuss the agreed rules of the drama , one of which is perhaps that in this drama there is no recourse to magic . |
| 26 | Some of the grander ideas have envisaged an all-embracing law of the environment , an entirely new international environmental protection agency and even a special environmental security council . |
| 27 | During the following week they had their first rifle lesson , bayonet practice and even a session of mapreading . |
| 28 | Now , offices , the County Hall and even a car park make a bigger impact but the prison retains its huge central site . |
| 29 | Even so , if there are two of you working together an ordinary garden spade or even a shovel can be used by one man to fill in some holes while the other man uses the graft or long spade on a new excavation . |
| 30 | All because she did n't have the money to buy a plane ticket or even a bus ticket . |