Example sentences of "[to-vb] and even [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw earlier how subject specialists ( for instance , working in museums ) can provide analytical outlines upon which the teacher can draw ; we have seen how the very objectives underlying resource-based learning include an understanding of the skills teacher-librarians have till recently taught alone ; we have hinted that other ancillaries will , in their work , help the teacher not only to achieve his objectives but also to modify and even enlarge them . |
| 2 | They have no enforceable right to enter British territory , and in some cases the Government is authorized by Statute to exclude and even expel them from the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is important that the piston moves smoothly back and forth , so great care should be taken to smooth and even varnish the inside of the box so no air can leak past the piston head . |
| 5 | My — my monster , if you will , learnt to talk and even learnt to read . |
| 6 | President Bush had reason to use military force to protect Americans because thousands were scattered around Panama and Gen Noriega 's troops had shown a willingness to harass and even kill them , Mr Goldman said . |
| 7 | As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work . |
| 8 | The ability to quantify androgyny on the BSRI seemed to some 1970s North American feminists to suggest and even to facilitate an escape from oppressive aspects of dominant discourses of femininity and masculinity , like guilt and dependency , and violence and insensitivity , which would at the same time retain femininity 's positive social , emotional characteristics , and the valuable self-confidence and achievement motivation commonly associated with masculinity . |
| 9 | There were obviously men in Hollywood who wanted to use social themes , there were audiences who were willing to attend these films , and there were critics who were prepared to praise and even honour these films . |
| 10 | These are directed to control conflict — though in fact they make it so much a part of the formal structure of the organisation that they tend to legitimise and even perpetuate it . |
| 11 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 12 | Because of this , attempts are made in many areas to examine land destined for construction work or mineral extraction before the work starts and , if possible , to record and even excavate sites threatened with destruction . |
| 13 | He was a dangerous male who was ruthless enough to humiliate and even degrade her if necessary . |
| 14 | He had indeed gained strength since he came home but was nevertheless prone to stumble and even fall , as the drug which was keeping his mind rational was also weakening his muscles and bones . |
| 15 | Of course , those who , like Bishop Blougram , find it possible to share and even sympathise with the intellectual misgivings of the unbeliever , do not easily waver in their understanding . |
| 16 | At the same time they wished to protect and even advance British influence abroad . |
| 17 | The tendency of legal doctrine to permit and even require the directors of a company to weigh the interests of groups other than those of the shareholders is closely allied with the claims that a revolution is occurring in the goals which corporate enterprise sets itself and that corporate managers are assuming for their companies ' social responsibilities . |
| 18 | One way in which changing State ideology has been felt in the cities since 1979 is the determination of central governments to reduce and even eradicate public-sector policies and organizations . |
| 19 | Whereas the radio-controlled motors could only control the owl 's head , wings and eyes in simple , repetitive motions , Dynarama enabled it to fly and even to act , or at least intervene in the action , notably the frequent fights . |
| 20 | The point about love is its unpredictability ; it has the capacity to surprise and even scandalize . |
| 21 | This seems very improbable , though it would have been consistent with his character to reject an organized challenge to the social order but to appreciate and even think of emulating and thereby vanquishing a personal one . |
| 22 | At Rockbeare , the English Lace School ( the only one in the country ) invites you to watch and even participate in the lacemaking . |
| 23 | It is the consequence of the apparent structural inevitability of its position : ‘ The majority class does not need the unemployed to maintain and even increase its standard of living … |
| 24 | Thus the forces operating to maintain and even continue expanding the home market were multi-directional , in that market dependency can increase irrespective of income levels . |
| 25 | Marina Warner wrote in the catalogue of the exhibition : " The lamb , the skate , the monkfish , the rabbits , the crab , squid , sardines , and the goose which appear to dance and even fly in the embraces of the Lover in the pool have passed into a dreamscape where their existence is no longer actual but only remembered . |
| 26 | He was concerned with the sale and exchange of fiefs and the preservation of the comital domain : there is some evidence that , like the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 in Gascony , measures intended to clarify and even reform the feudal structure of the comté were initiated under Edward I. In a letter dated 5 June 1285 Edward and Eleanor confirmed a grant by Gerard d'Abbeville , lord of Mons-Bouberc , in which he assigned to her the payment of an annual rent on his property at Abbeville . |
| 27 | In the critical early months of 1943 he was prepared to disappoint and even antagonize resistance leaders in his pursuit of this objective . |
| 28 | Admittedly , it will be difficult to unscramble the present system , but it is not yet too late to extend VAT and other forms of sales taxes to relieve and even eliminate the direct pressures on the country 's earners . |
| 29 | Woodland faunas , for instance , are distinct from grassland faunas , and tropical faunas distinct from temperate faunas , and when these and more precise distinctions are made it is possible to correlate and even define ecological zones by their small mammal faunas . |
| 30 | Equally , to yawn is to act bored , to admit and even to flaunt kinship with Svidligailov , and the evil-omened word listless ( vyali ) that dogs Stavrogin , though he never uses it himself , corresponds to the other man 's terminal boredom . |