Example sentences of "[noun sg] even [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A heavy mist had fallen , drowning the countryside in its white vapour and making Royston Manor even more sinister . |
| 2 | In the USA , NAEP 's use of conventional school subjects has been seen as a conservative influence , and the reduction to the 3Rs makes the backwash effect even more acute . |
| 3 | On Dr Neil this had an effect even more erotic than any more intimate caressing of his body might have produced . |
| 4 | Chandos Herald , the Black Prince 's biographer , makes the prince reply to Charles V 's letter citing him to appear before the parlement of Paris by saying , ‘ Lords , by my faith it seems to me that the French think I am dead ; but if God gives me comfort , and I can get up from this bed , I will do them a great deal of harm even now , for God knows that they lack a good case , and they will have real cause to complain of me . ’ |
| 5 | On the floor of room 41 is the shrivelled corpse of an Orc in filthy , rusted chain mail , clutching at a battle axe , slain without a mark on his body , his face a frozen mask of fear even now . |
| 6 | Guido was standing over her now in that dominating way he had , making her sit up even straighter and stretch her neck even more . |
| 7 | This is because both syntactic and semantic constraints affect the speed of word recognition even fairly early on in a clause , and , for this to happen , a listener must be building up an analysis of both aspects while proceeding through the clause . |
| 8 | Though she never thought she 'd see the day when she 'd be thankful for Matthew 's presence in the same room as her , Charity silently echoed Mandy 's gratitude , and held down her skirt even harder . |
| 9 | With Lauda sidelined , the way was open for Hunt to close the gap even further . |
| 10 | There was no hint of any emotion even distantly related to nervousness in those dark , intelligent , ruthless eyes . |
| 11 | His daughter wrote , in a biography even more adulatory than most Victorian daughters ' biographies of their fathers , ‘ He loved conversing with all manner of persons , but I do think he preferred a parson to any other . |
| 12 | We would be delighted , and I expect that would blight his future even more , but it is essential that we have a mechanism to check on what is happening so that there is information and a body to which people can bring their grievances so that matters are properly set out and , more important , rectified before damage is done . |
| 13 | They thought he could be used at some time in the future even better internationally than locally . |
| 14 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
| 15 | In a poor car , it takes a driver of great aggressivity and unbounded self-confidence to make such a car even moderately competitive . |
| 16 | The Luton families studied had relatively little free time left after work , given the multifarious activities required to keep a house , garden and car even minimally organized . |
| 17 | Nicol had betaken himself to his due place among the servants , and Tutilo , silent and self-effacing among such distinguished company , was down at the end among the clerks and chaplains , and wary of opening his mouth even there . |
| 18 | Our next chart , the ‘ Calorie and Fibre Guide to Packaged Foods ’ , makes high-fibre low-calorie eating even easier . |
| 19 | The council 's main reaction to Mr. Dear 's complaints of undermanning has been to cut the force even further . |
| 20 | They are worth a great deal even today , because of the familiar insinuations that Eliot was as much a political reactionary as a religious bigot . |
| 21 | Television will infiltrate into the national consciousness even more copiously than is already the case the personalities of the two main party leaders . |
| 22 | This is to be found in Robson 's assertion that the concept of " democracy " is inapplicable to the Arts , since compositional capacity is " uncommon " and critical appreciation even less so . |
| 23 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England wants Thames Water to reduce its water loss even further . |
| 24 | We were so confident of each other 's love that should one of us make that final , selfish decision the other would feel his friend 's sense of loss even more keenly than his own . |
| 25 | ’ Patrick reduced his speed even more . |
| 26 | High speed mode results in a very creditable 248cps ( characters per second ) , whereas high quality mode reduces the speed even further to 124 cps , but also cuts the noise level from 42 decibels ( dB ) to 40dB . |
| 27 | MORE HONEST than the above but just as romantic , albeit after Hemingway rather than Erich Segal , this finds Peckinpah surveying the carnage of the Mexican Revolution and has his heroes — William Holden , Ernest Borgnine , Warren Oates , Ben Johnson — go out in an authentic apotheosis , a slow-motion orgy of mass-destruction even more trippily appealing than the wryness of Butch and Sundance . |
| 28 | Once I catch a glimpse of the light of a car or maybe a tractor a long way up the valley , and this sees to make my isolation even more profound . |
| 29 | It makes the tragedy even more complete , yet at the same time contains the seeds of hope . |
| 30 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |