Example sentences of "or even that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if father has lost his job , whispered conversations about money worries , which break off as soon as children come near , may give them the idea that a terrible disaster is about to strike , or even that they are too insignificant to be taken into their parents ' confidence . |
| 2 | Do not imagine , however , that lectures will always be held in the order shown in the syllabus or even that they will cover every aspect of it . |
| 3 | But they may have to face the fact that their own view of his department 's policy needs are irrelevant to the main problem being tackled within it , or even that their own commitments lead in quite opposite directions to the ones being taken by those concerned with policy innovation in the department . |
| 4 | We will seek reassurance that we are loved in all kinds of bizarre ways rather than acknowledge there were times when we were not loved , or we may never have been loved , or even that we may have been hated . |
| 5 | He accompanied this with a rude gesture — some say it was a noise , others that he stuck out his tongue , or even that he made a sign with his forearm . |
| 6 | Or even that he is conducting a stealthy operation to ensure the BBC 's survival that depends on elaborate deception . |
| 7 | In addition , there is no protection against the old device of refusing admission to a solicitor ( or doctor ) and asserting afterwards that the prisoner did not ask for him or even that he had refused to see him . |
| 8 | Not that the gay Oz had been his idea , or even that he had provided much input , apart from advice on the telephone . |
| 9 | The announcement only fuelled speculation that he is earmarked for greater things in the Shandwick organisation , of which PRCS is now a part , or even that he was preparing the way for something completely different when his five-year golden handcuffs are released next year . |
| 10 | They may suggest that you have no confidence in your argument or even that you ca n't make up your mind — and that does not make for much of an argument . |
| 11 | First , because identification with one 's community is morally worthwhile , and acceptance of the authority of the state an appropriate way ( though not the only way ) to express it , one may jump to the conclusion that one has an obligation to accept the authority of the state , or even that it has authority independently of such acceptance . |
| 12 | Or even that it could be transferred to your ownership . ’ |
| 13 | No relevant issues were raised , no acknowledgment that rape is about male power , or even that it is wrong . |
| 14 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 15 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 16 | Later when the ‘ other ’ side was told , they often did not agree with the way it was handled or even that it was a crisis . |
| 17 | It does not follow that , because the legal system systematically discriminates against black people , such discrimination is its raison d'être , or even that it is the outcome of the undoubted prejudices of the police or judiciary . |
| 18 | It is not enough to show that a screening test detects disease early , or even that it will probably save some lives . |
| 19 | Or even that it 's a Sunday at all ? ’ |
| 20 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 21 | She had n't realised that they were going to breakfast in the suite or even that she would share breakfast with him . |
| 22 | The most worrying thing is not that life was imitating video game imitating life etc ; that my perception of reality had been fatally flawed by subliminal computer messages ; or even that my brain was becoming all-too transparent to any two-bob amateur psychiatrist who cared to take note . |
| 23 | Yeo Davis 's business was concerned with representing people who did not know the ropes , or even that there were any ropes ; Hutton 's predominantly with fellow professionals in other fields who just wanted the best and swiftest way through . |
| 24 | He would have preferred it had their arguments led directly to immaterialism , and showed not merely that we do not know what qualities material objects have , but indeed that they have none , or even that there are no such objects . |
| 25 | Each of us knows the nature of his or her own sensory states ; but can we know the nature of the sensory states of others , or even that there are any other minds to have the sensory states which are not ours ? |
| 26 | They make a mockery of the notion that there exists within the Community a free market or even that there is one in the offing . |
| 27 | It is a short step from this view to the position that there are several Third ( and First ) Worlds and that each of these Worlds has a specific set of relations with global capitalism , or even that there is no such thing as global capitalism but that there are several capitalisms operating nationally and internationally in different ways with different Third Worlds . |