Example sentences of "[adj] and even " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very cross at the way you dismissed PagePlus as ‘ extraordinarily unbalanced , primitive and even quirky ’ ( February issue ) . |
| 2 | He had the advantage of being a poet himself and a member of a circle of respectable poets , of whom the best was Simon Dach , at Königsberg ; he had wide musical knowledge , not only of the Italian masters of monody , as he reveals in one of his greatest songs , ‘ O der rauhen Grausamkeit ’ : but of other foreign song , French and even Polish , from which he borrowed with due acknowledgement . |
| 3 | Cornish Adventure Sailing will do all this and even take you across the Bay of Biscay to La Coruna in northern Spain . |
| 4 | If he had told Mrs Wilson this and even if she had believed him , she may not have wished to help him . |
| 5 | They agreed to this and even gave him their headed notepaper to use in ordering . |
| 6 | Other works from this and even from the earlier phase will be discussed in the last section of this chapter , on relief and architectural sculpture , since that is the area in which the formation of the ripe archaic style can most clearly be traced . |
| 7 | If the design appears clear and even throughout , and the foundation strands form a neat grid , then the knotting is almost certainly regular . |
| 8 | Some teenage mothers complain bitterly about the attitudes and treatment they receive in antenatal clinics and classes and in hospital , which are sometimes patronising and even rude . |
| 9 | Thanks to its powerful steam generator , ironing has never been easier and even vertical ironing is made possible , perfect for use on hanging curtains and jackets . |
| 10 | In Victorian times , women frequently continued producing their large families into their 30s and even early 40s . |
| 11 | Received messages can be deleted or stored and even structured to link messages from the same person or about the same subject . |
| 12 | That question raises a further and even more interesting one about the status of different kinds of accounts . |
| 13 | But as the surplus rural housing was gradually soaked up by commuters and second home owners , and as housing which had once been a damning indictment of years of neglect and deprivation was restored and renovated , so relative scarcity began to increase prices above those prevailing for comparable suburban and even urban housing . |
| 14 | In recent years an increasing number of second- and even third-generation Koreans have shown signs of rebelling against a system which has limited their job options and freedom of movement . |
| 15 | Governments were becoming increasingly unwilling to tolerate many of the ambiguities , compromises and uncertainties which in the fifteenth , sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries had often been the essence of relations between them . |
| 16 | Consumers who saw their commitments enlarge so dramatically as a result of higher interest rates , who found themselves over-committed , and then found themselves unemployed and even less able to meet those commitments , will not rush out and spend money even if they have more of it . |
| 17 | Though savage rites might be interesting and even valuable , their greatest value was that , in showing the importance of ritual in a society , they pointed towards the place which the higher Christian rituals should have in his own society . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if the reader can find the patience to continue , he may find the variations in the repetition interesting and even helpful . |
| 19 | A CLEVELAND sixth form college is showing more than 200 younger pupils how physics can be interesting and even enjoyable . |
| 20 | It had been one of those bloody-minded mornings , when everything went wrong and even inanimate objects seemed to have banded together in a conspiracy against him . |
| 21 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 22 | The main tower of the fortress is nine storeys high and even today looks forbidding . |
| 23 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 24 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 25 | Tyrer said : ‘ I played rugby league until I was 17 years old and even played for Wigan Under-11s at Wembley , where I kicked six goals . |
| 26 | He 's been playing since he was eleven years old and even now scores regularly for his team . |
| 27 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 28 | The cupboard smelled slightly of damp and even on a warm summer evening Ginny felt the prickle of goose pimples rising on her bare arms . |
| 29 | Corded , cordless and even gas-powered guns are now sold , and the advantages for the user are speed of setting time and convenience . |
| 30 | At many points : social and even ethical as well as aesthetic . |