Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] even [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Not without opposition from other sections of the bureaucracy especially those.in Finance ministries , MITI argued that long-term self-reliance for Japan would be delayed or even undermined by following its apparent comparative advantage into labour intensive sectors .
3 Again , because treasures served to denote prominent persons , they are most likely to be listed or even described in written records , as well as featuring in works of art .
4 This trend was then halted or even reversed thereafter as large companies especially in manufacturing transferred their excess labour into smaller subcontractors or satellite companies .
5 The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities .
6 You may find that your weight has fluctuated or even gone up .
7 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 .
8 ‘ The freedom to travel independently is taken for granted by most of us and only assumes its real importance when it is limited or even removed , ’ said a spokesman .
9 Some degeneration can be treated or even reversed and doctors and researchers in our hospitals have made great strides forward .
10 That alone makes the patterns in social relations more complicated , but in addition we must analyse processes of change to judge how far the character of these structures is being modified or even transformed .
11 Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails .
12 Not to be trusted or even understood but to be treated with caution and sometimes indulged .
13 He may find the home which he has regarded as his Englishman 's castle invaded , occupied or even demolished about his ears .
14 Some bodies would be downgraded or even abolished , and personnel levels would be cut , from 3,500 to 2,500 .
15 Rates can be queried and even contested through a rate tribunal .
16 Their failures can all too readily be excused and even hidden by further infusions of state funds .
17 One blind person found lack of non-verbal communication a problem , though others felt able to compensate and even viewed blindness as helpful in some situations .
18 Yeah I just it just seems to me such a complete and utter waste of of , his time primarily for fifteen , I mean this being identified a year earlier which we reckon it was you would think that even given all the red tape and everything else
19 How many courses or conferences have you attended or even seen advertised that mention children in their titles ?
20 The rule of law , in short , could be threatened or even dispensed with by parliamentary enactment .
21 She reckons that more than 70% of schoolgirls are subjected to some form of sexual harassment by their male teachers , and that a significant number are physically exploited or even raped .
22 A few inches either way and police officers could have been seriously injured or even killed .
23 Here he will have to serve a form of apprenticeship before he is accepted or even noticed .
24 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 .
25 The illness can be so obsessive , it becomes fearfully boring — in the correct sense of both words — and its effect on loved ones can be missed or even forgotten .
26 While the Ministry of Finance energetically fostered industrialization , the other ministries still pursued conservative social policies which ignored or even impeded economic change .
27 In the twentieth century they were succeeded by men like A. S. Peake ( Primitive Methodist ) , C. H. Dodd ( Congregationalist ) , H. Wheeler Robinson ( Baptist ) and P. T. Forsyth ( Congregationalist ) whose work was similar to Barth 's and whose ‘ true spiritual stature was not seen or even glimpsed ’ until after the Second World War .
28 I really wanted to be close to the sea again , which I had not seen or even smelt for so long .
29 Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made .
30 The second : no one really works but the targets are always met or even exceeded .
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