Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] and even " in BNC.

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1 Only in Scotland is there significant support for federalism and even there it is far from the majority view .
2 Edwards ( 1979 , 16 ) , for example , characterises the situation as one where for most of the twentieth century management have met ‘ chronic resistance to their effort to compel production ’ and consequently ‘ have attempted to organize production in such a way as to minimise opportunities for resistance and even to alter workers ’ perceptions of the desirability of opposition ’ .
3 Homeopathy has more than 2,000 remedies , made from all sorts of plants and even snake venom .
4 It does seem today , as Mill once said , ‘ protection is needed against the tyranny of prevailing opinion … the tendency of society to impose its own ideas and practices ’ and by ‘ an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers of society over the individual by the force of opinion and even by that of legislation ’ .
5 Not only did the names change at the Palaeozoic/Mesozoic boundary , but also the classification , the methods of study and even the terminology of the anatomical parts .
6 If ecstatic union with the other entails a liberating loss of inhibition and even loss of the self , by the very same token , it is then that desire may become most unaware of the plight of the other , especially when , as here , it is powerfully mediated through the pastoral genre .
7 One last consideration — many couples have experienced total loss of desire and even a repugnance towards sex with no apparent reason .
8 This means the yarn produced can be any ply from two to eight and also be a mix of qualities and even colours if the customer wishes .
9 The coastal waters of the British Isles support a rich and varied marine life , now coming severely under threat from man : pollution , overfishing and misuse of resources and even some recreational activities are all taking their toll on this fragile ecosystem .
10 It was in part because of this love of the specially religious life , and in part because of the affection for the long history of the Church , that he led another pilgrimage ( 1959 ) of several thousand people to Holy Island on the coast of Northumberland and even The Times had a piece about the archbishop walking barefoot .
11 Rolls-Royce and British Airports followed , and there was talk of electricity and even coal being privatized in due course .
12 The truth was that they were lost , there was no smoke in sight whichever way she looked , nothing but the undulating feathery greenness of the forest and the sun rising above the trees in the east , but she wanted to conceal her uncertainty from Allen and even from herself .
13 Food lay like clods of clay in his stomach and it rained , but he was supported by a sense of majesty in ideas and even in himself for having them , though this latter maintenance came and went .
14 This same cue also seems to trigger a decrease in growth and even appetite among mammals such as deer , sheep and goats .
15 In the field of philosophy logical support was claimed for the absolute superiority of scientific and mathematical thinking over religion and even traditional philosophy .
16 The Carlists mainly recruited conservative Catholics suspicious of Falangist fascism ; the Falange , in common with other European fascist movements in their periods of explosive growth , absorbed tens of thousands of new members from all quarters of the political spectrum , from ex- cedistas to Republicans and even leftists anxious to combine self-preservation with a semblance of socio-political ‘ radicalism ’ .
17 In the weeks before the meeting , the Daily Worker published plans for a five-column march on Olympia and even a map to show its readers how to get there .
18 The amount of force needed to lock them will vary considerably from aircraft to aircraft and even perhaps from day to day .
19 He enjoyed his final few months at school and even returned after Christmas to visit and to say hello to members of staff .
20 A Hamitic people , they established themselves over a great part of Shoa and even pushed northwards along the escarpment for some hundred and fifty miles beyond Dessie .
21 These two reports remain the source of almost all the information about the eruption ; the Royal Society in particular went to great lengths to amass every possible scrap of information and even inserted a notice in The Times requesting anyone who had seen or heard anything to come forward .
22 Yet average figures often cover up cases of hardship and even if in real terms salaries for some academics appear generous , others feel disadvantaged and discontent .
23 Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ?
24 The second is that coalition or minority government involves taking account of the views of others and even , perhaps , having to compromise .
25 So promoting mental health is about personal interactions , the stability of communities , relationships between groups of people and even matters of international peace and harmony .
26 He pulled a sheet from one of the beds , spread it on the floor , opened up wardrobes and drawers , scooped up armfuls of clothes — there was no time to make any kind of selection and even if there had been he would have been unable to pick and choose , they were all women 's clothing — dumped them on the sheet , tied up the four corners , lugged the bundle up the companionway and handed it over to Riley .
27 Without them , the book would be no more than a splenetic rant ; with them come glimmers of compassion and even humanity to balance the pyrotechnics of loathing .
28 He used a variety of lures and even took a few fish on fish baits .
29 While the TNCs from the United States no longer dominate these sectors as they once did , they are still the leaders in a wide variety of fields and even when they are not the leaders it tends to be ‘ American ’ cultural products or local adaptations of them that are on offer .
30 The politicization of issues and even of policy-making structures remained considerable : one reason for uniting the postal and telegraph administrations in 1878 was to swamp the allegedly Bonapartist ‘ telegraphist ’ personnel ( 3000 employees ) among the 27,000 postal employees ; often of humble social origins , the latter contained ardent supporters of a republic that assured their social advancement .
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