Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot . |
| 2 | A Hamitic people , they established themselves over a great part of Shoa and even pushed northwards along the escarpment for some hundred and fifty miles beyond Dessie . |
| 3 | The language used was simpler and chattier than that of Pravda or even of Trud , the main labour organ . |
| 4 | However he must understand the indignity Leeds fans suffered during eight seasons being beaten by the likes of Shrewsbury and even ( gulp ) Bradford City . |
| 5 | If individual rights in property are an absolute impediment to the institution of Utopia or even , less pretentiously , to the promotion of the good life , then at New Harmony there was no such impediment . |
| 6 | Fast motion can be used to express erotic tension and desire , if the purpose is comic rather than romantic — if we had laughed at the romantic yearnings of Cecile or even Frankie , the film would be failing , even though the treatment of these themes is throughout as much comic as tragic — ‘ bitter-sweet ’ seems to be the compound word , or better still the mot juste is ‘ douce-amère ’ . |
| 7 | Fewer people desire to live in the north of England and even fewer in northern Scotland . |
| 8 | Hawkshead Grammar School was at the highest point of its reputation when Wordsworth arrived ; boys were sent to it from all over the north-west of England and even from Scotland . |
| 9 | He seems to have enjoyed friendly relations with successive kings and queens of England and even with the papal legate Ottobuono . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She toyed with the idea of Yorkshire or even further south but was persuaded by Louise that it would be a mistake to make Constance change schools at that point , just before her School Certificate examination . |
| 12 | Indeed , in the House of Commons and even in his highly expert use of the new medium of broadcasting , he often eschewed a manuscript and spoke from relatively sketchy notes . |
| 13 | But despite all efforts , worship of the old gods and goddesses continued throughout the land of Israel and even on occasion at the Temple of Jerusalem itself — as evidenced by the books of Kings and Chronicles , which refer to events of the seventh and sixth centuries . |
| 14 | For years I found it very odd that the disciples spent very little time talking about the significance of the death of Jesus or even the person of Jesus . |
| 15 | It is not uncommon to hear about the assassination of public figures in the streets of Bogota and even running in local elections can ensure a place on some death list . |
| 16 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 17 | ‘ My Lord of Gaunt or even Chief Justice Fortescue . |
| 18 | More and more the assertion could be heard , long before the guns began to fire , that the " cabinet diplomacy " of the eighteenth century , of Metternich or even of Bismarck , no longer met the needs of a changing world . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly the river was navigable ; the separation of Sussex from much else of mainstream English experience should not hide the richness of Saxon trade with other parts of Europe and even further afield . |
| 21 | ‘ And send us violent political messages about freeing Sardinia from Italian rule , while investing their ransom money in land and building speculation in the south of France and even South America . ’ |
| 22 | Its growth rate has been outstripped for much of the time by that of France and even , in some recent years , by that of the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | More importantly , mounted hunters followed the Lolo and Old Nez Perce trails east over the Bitterroots , and joined bands of Flathead and even Crow in hunting buffalo on the Plains . |
| 24 | Modernization conceived as differentiation is of course the linchpin of Parsonian sociology , but can be traced back through the work of Weber and even of Lukács to the aesthetic writings of the mature Hegel ( Ká0tz 1982 ) . |
| 25 | The effects of the present structure of Heathrow but even if you see er , if you travel into from Heathrow on the M four to West Central London |
| 26 | I was thinking about the relative merits of a bottle or two of Ruddles from the fridge or a glass or two of Sancerre or even , in the circumstances , something stronger , when there was a knock on my door . |
| 27 | In the first place , there is the time factor : her first biography was begun over twenty years after the publication of BT and even honest sisters ' memories would be fallible at such a distance . |
| 28 | Frederica 's recall of things seen was very much less lucid and automatic than those of Stephanie or even Marcus . |
| 29 | John Pilger may point us back to the lessons of Vietnam or even the Falklands , but we also live day-to-day with distorted coverage of Ireland and it does n't seem to bother us too much . |
| 30 | know where they 've planned owt to go , and er , so she said it 'll get end of June or even July |