Example sentences of "and even [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten thousand league effort , and even off balance , |
| 2 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 3 | Few words passed between them during the remainder of the horse trek , and even during lunch Silas appeared to be more silent than usual , a fact which drew a comment from Matt . |
| 4 | This was further reflected by the fact that a third of the MPs did not keep up a house in London , confirmation of roots outside Westminster ; sessions lasted for only about thirty weeks a year and even during session the attendance of backbenchers was sometimes spasmodic . |
| 5 | The movie on T.V. is reaching its climax and even without sound , it 's clear the hero is innocent . |
| 6 | And even at midnight the fishes feed and swim . |
| 7 | He was suddenly and belatedly delightfully aware of her adoration , of her devotion , of her light hand with the pastry , and even at breakfast time he could contemplate with pleasure how jolly nice it would be to kiss her . |
| 8 | A full game at this level would probably take three days so it 's highly unlikely anyone will bother , but the first four levels take a minute or less and even at Level Seven it only takes five — overall , this is n't a slow program . |
| 9 | All have adaptions for feeding and living in wetland habitats and even at sea . |
| 10 | A new industrial policy decree went further in 1988 , reflecting the growing opinion among Brazilian industrialists that some form of partnership with a foreign company was often the essential condition of attaining competitiveness abroad and even at home ( Fritsch and Franco , 1988 : pp. 82–4 ) . |
| 11 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 12 | This has never been up among the recommendations for this work , and even at mid-price it is n't competitive with those versions listed above . |
| 13 | Again , nothing was done , though heartrending stories of shipwrecks and even of cannibalism on crippled vessels continued to assail the public . |
| 14 | The notion of the epistemological break , while offering a theory of scientificity , and even of ideology , implied a very different view of history from that of Sartre . |
| 15 | Constance was Scarlet 's lifeline to a world where not everything was necessarily disastrous , a warmer world of colour and joy and even of hope . |
| 16 | Too many ‘ conservationists ’ fail to appreciate the value of captive studies and even of management in disturbed habitats — all approaches are very valuable , but the protection of adequate areas of natural habitat is paramount , These approaches , and the critical plight of South-East Asian wildlife , are well summarised in the epilogue ; Dutch primatologists are to be congratulated on their initiative in this venture , |
| 17 | It was hardly surprising that after an initial period of cooperation and even of euphoria , unrest and discontent , mingled with weariness of a conflict which became ever more bloody and apparently endless , began to grow . |
| 18 | Similarly , on retreats such as this one , the fire of the Holy Spirit has an opportunity to burn away the dross of the Church and even of doctrine that may obscure the faith that is central to all we believe and hope for . |
| 19 | Gray and Jenkins ( 1986 ) conclude that while the FMI has enhanced the status and operation of certain aspects of financial management , notably those relating to the management of costs , this has tended to be at the expense of the integration of strategic management and even of accountability itself . |
| 20 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |
| 21 | Though these may be plain , use is often made of paper of a different texture , and even of colour , from that of the main text . |
| 22 | Admittedly we can discern glimmerings of intelligent thought involving the location of sub-goals and the execution of sub-strategies , a grasp of ‘ causality ’ , perhaps even a grasp of the internal motivational states of others , as disclosed by their behaviour ; and some experimenters have even looked for signs of a sense of self , and even of intimation of mortality . |
| 23 | In the first place , there was not only a sex difference but a gap of glaring dimensions politically , socially and even of age , between those who promoted the introduction of women to printing and those who opposed it . |
| 24 | Some talk of controlling which vehicles can enter the City at particular times , and even of identity cards for people working there . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) Then again it is regarded as doubtful whether there really is a specific quality of pleasure , and even of pain , which covers all experiences that people either want to have or avoid , and it is thought obviously desirable that people should have experiences they want rather than those with a certain quality . |
| 26 | It entertains the possibility of amelioration and even of cure . |
| 27 | The politicization of issues and even of policy-making structures remained considerable : one reason for uniting the postal and telegraph administrations in 1878 was to swamp the allegedly Bonapartist ‘ telegraphist ’ personnel ( 3000 employees ) among the 27,000 postal employees ; often of humble social origins , the latter contained ardent supporters of a republic that assured their social advancement . |
| 28 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 29 | A. culicifacies , the sole vector in Sri Lanka , remains susceptible to BHC and malathion and malaria persists there ; in India , and possibly in Pakistan too , the same species shows ‘ pockets ’ of resistance to malathion and even to fenitrothion but extensive areas still exist where there is no evidence of organophosphate resistance . |
| 30 | If everyone ( or at least those who can mould opinion and wield sanctions ) implicitly agrees that it is weak to get upset , and a sign of personal incompetence to make mistakes , then openness entails real risks to staffroom status and even to promotion and other career prospects . |