Example sentences of "[coord] even [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current ideas of the structure of water visualize it as being composed of a random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds ( Figure 7 ) , some of which are strained or even broken , but with a general structure not unlike that which is found in ordinary ice , also known as hexagonal ice to distinguish it from its variant form , cubic ice , which is formed at lower temperatures . |
| 2 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 3 | If , however , the medium is too viscous convection will be inhibited , or even prevented altogether . |
| 4 | At the other extreme — where mineral working would involve ‘ too great injury to the comfort and living conditions of the people in the area or to amenities generally ’ — mineral working can be limited or even prevented . |
| 5 | Even if the individual librarian is supported or protected or even threatened by the professional association , this seems to be an inadequate defence against censorship . |
| 6 | That challenges have been made to the liberal humanist tradition by Marxists , structuralists , deconstructionists , feminists and others is not , however , to say that these challenges are widely accepted or even taught . |
| 7 | Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ? |
| 8 | They have claimed that Sarah and Jane were barely troubled by the divorce as they were away at school , that Charles , aged four , was too young to understand while Diana , then seven , reacted to the break up with ‘ the unthinking resilience of her age ’ or even regarded it as ‘ fresh excitement ’ in her young life . |
| 9 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
| 10 | If they broke the vow a curse would ensue according to which they would be savaged by a bear , split apart by an axe , knifed to death or even choked by food . |
| 11 | In effect , a ‘ conspiracy of silence ’ still surrounds those northern Protestants who at various times and in their different ways condemned the landlord system , called for a wider franchise , disapproved of religious bigotry , or even sought to break the connection with Britain . |
| 12 | It may not be obvious or spectacular , or even recognized by other people , but it may be very significant The influence of one individual changes the total sum of things . |
| 13 | What we are now has much to do with the way we have steered round or even collided with the obstacles of our lives . |
| 14 | Writing in 1783 , long before social anthropology had assumed any coherent shape or even possessed a name , the eighteenth-century French social philosopher , J. J. Rousseau proclaimed our guiding assumption : ‘ One needs to look near at hand if one wants to study men : but to study man one must learn to look from afar : one must first observe differences in order to discover attributes . ’ |
| 15 | Nothing was disassembled or even disturbed , but in the end they had complete molecular images of us and the ship — which we would have to match perfectly upon departure . |
| 16 | The family planning clinic may be too far away , the services too expensive or scarce , or even prohibited . |
| 17 | Although the reduced percentage of aneuploid tumours can be interpreted as a local response to radiotherapy the missing effect on survival points to the fact that oesophageal cancer is often diagnosed at a locally advanced or even disseminated stage . |
| 18 | Because they are in shallow water — or even exposed — there are no problems with light . |
| 19 | The fortunes of some families have , indeed , grown no greater , or even diminished . |
| 20 | The whiggish notion that such writing might be somehow improved on or even supplanted by the critical mass-production of the anglophone academy is quite self-delusory . |
| 21 | Treating his pupils to the compliment of rational disagreement sometimes spilled over into a verbal contest so fierce that the young person concerned was abashed or even frightened . |
| 22 | As their grievances were not met , or even acknowledged by the ultimate power in the state — ; the Tsar . |
| 23 | Moreover they remain meaningful irrespective of whether Jones has read or even heard of Tolstoy . |
| 24 | 4.9 Provided the medical expense was reasonably incurred , it is immaterial that the particular treatment should transpire to have been unnecessary , or even mistaken : per Lord Collins in Clippens Oil Co Ltd v Edinburgh & District Water Trustees 1907 SC(HL) 9 at p14 : |
| 25 | Not to be trusted or even understood but to be treated with caution and sometimes indulged . |
| 26 | In vocational and ‘ pre-vocational ’ training , there are at present very large numbers of different qualifications ( and of awarding bodies ) , not always widely recognised or even understood ; but simpler structures are currently emerging . |
| 27 | In that too , they were alike : both of them had thoughts and feelings that few people gave them credit for or even suspected . |
| 28 | If Philippe knew of — or even suspected — the existence of this story , this would have been adequate reason to abolish a powerful movement whose knowledge of it could give the descendants of the Merovingians excuse to usurp the throne , claiming direct lineage from Christ . |
| 29 | Which left him wondering why Alexei had agreed to the proposal at all — for if he knew or even suspected that there was to be no marriage , it was difficult to see where he perceived his advantage to lie . |
| 30 | The historian was at his best , he maintained , not as an analyst but as ‘ a craftsman of synthesis , a weaver of other men 's threads ( and some of his own ) into patterns which they had not foreseen or even suspected ’ ; and he was forthright in claiming , at a time when it was not fashionable , that the contemporary historian was just as capable of such synthesis as historians of earlier centuries . |