Example sentences of "even [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literary sources , Greek papyri , Roman inscriptions and medieval documents are generally more informative , even about monetary matters , than the coins themselves . |
| 2 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |
| 3 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 4 | To one trained in the more-than-circumspect world of Ultra at Bletchley , the press and public expectation of immediate news and information , not just about military successes and casualties , but even about questions of tactics — and that in advance of the action — seemed incomprehensible . |
| 5 | Later John began to worry even about that idea : |
| 6 | If we can not safely generalise even about the two districts we have come to know , still less , of course , can we generalise from East London to the rest of the country . |
| 7 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 8 | It is surprising how little each knows , even about the other 's daily routine or the regular demands and pressures involved . |
| 9 | But this is not a book about donkeys or even about faith , at least not directly . |
| 10 | Should we really be making judgements about pupils ' ability to relate to each other , and to adults , or even about their skill on the telephone ? |
| 11 | Admittedly he has some reservations even about free-range farming such as the need for castration , transportation and slaughtering techniques but , as Francis and Norman point out ( 1978 : 516 ) , since Singer himself thinks that much of this suffering could be eliminated , it is simply a matter of working to bring these improvements about . |
| 12 | There were worries about the teachers and even about the miners . |
| 13 | Decisions about management , life-styles and living arrangements , even about educational capacity have been taken by doctors with a consequent decrease in the power of individuals and their families to plan and control their lives . |
| 14 | Wasim seems to be moaning throughout , even about his own features : ( ‘ I look at my nose , and I think , God , what happened to it ? ’ ) . |
| 15 | Far more cross-cultural research , of the type suggested by Cole and Scribner for instance ( ibid. ) , would be necessary before any useful generalisations could be made even about the relative functions and worth of the various parts of these different systems ( such as their punctuation conventions ) . |
| 16 | Far from taking municipal institutions as a platform for broader political participation , they dragged their feet even about using these bodies to improve urban facilities . |
| 17 | ‘ Behind Bars ’ at the new , huge , non-profit Threadwaxing Space on Broadway is not as you might suspect a show of political art about prisoners ' rights or even about the exotic lives of cocktail waitresses but rather about the stripe in art . |
| 18 | Remark We talk of a gcd rather than the gcd of a and b since 1.4.1 says nothing about uniqueness ( nor even about existence ! ) . |
| 19 | They can complain about anything , even about the writer 's script . |
| 20 | Like so many journalists , I am very Opinionated , hopefully in private only — even about my own profession , journalism If we are to be seen as an independent , unbiased and creditable observer , should we really be in the political arena with our trade union the NUJ ? |
| 21 | Had Zulei lied even about this ? |
| 22 | His nickname , his flattened nose , a crossed scar like an emblem beside one eyebrow had all been won honourably , in and out of the ring , and whatever suspicions he might have about the feelings — even about the suitability for the present assignment — of Denis Hurley , sitting back-to-back with him on the cart , he knew that he would be man enough for anything , his nerve would not fail . |
| 23 | Yet in the 1980s the capacity of a determined government to ‘ sit out ’ forms of direct action — most obviously in the case of the 1985 miners ' strike — raises doubts even about this form of pressure-group action . |
| 24 | But she told him nothing , not even about the Laboratory . |
| 25 | The nephew liked a logical argument , even about illogical things . |
| 26 | A confrontation between William Thomson and T. H. Huxley was good to watch , and showed that scientists did not always agree , even about what was evidence or the right way to argue : while evolution in the last thirty years of the century was generally accepted , there was no agreement about times and processes . |
| 27 | Yet anthropologists regularly write monographs about particular " primitive " religions and even about " primitive religion " in general . |
| 28 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 29 | It could be about particular authors who 've been through the public-school system , or even about the way the system works at close hand . |
| 30 | I tried to find out — I may be forgiven — who would benefit from the theft of the jewel , and I learned from Mr Brown here ’ ( heads swivelling ) ‘ that Mrs Stratton was always slightly mysterious — ambivalent , even about her own financial affairs . |