Example sentences of "even [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whole communities were being , so to speak , lifted out of the mother country and planted down in villages already prepared for them , even down to food in the larder . |
| 32 | He was black and gleaming , his outline as smooth as a dolphin 's even down to the hint of rubber . |
| 33 | Under such leases , the builder/developer would be responsible for erecting a building or a number of buildings upon a particular site , and detailed provision might be made for the manner of their construction and continuing maintenance , even down to the type of subsequent letting of the buildings which was to be permitted . |
| 34 | ‘ And that 's why you go to such lengths to ensure you research your subject even down to the fact of their star sign ? ’ |
| 35 | It got my interest going and I went off to Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Mid-Wales and even down to Bristol . |
| 36 | The actions of Timex in Dundee exude an air of pre-meditation rather reminiscent of Rupert Murdoch 's at Wapping : even down to the fortified perimeter installed by the new management team after it took over 18 months ago . |
| 37 | ‘ I 'm loving it just as much even down to the research . |
| 38 | Most of them have a very good knowledge of English , even down to the most obscure idiom , but they are not always fluent in expressing their ideas . |
| 39 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 40 | As we go even deeper to five thousand metres the concentrations begin to right again and the ratio begins to change . |
| 41 | ‘ Or even not to be fucked up , just to be regular . |
| 42 | And perhaps even more to us as modern actors was Alison Legatt , then playing with Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence every evening . |
| 43 | Dostoevsky owed even more to Cervantes than to Molière , and here again , as in his relations with Shakespeare and Pushkin , it 's a visitation with no very palpable memorial . |
| 44 | Even more to the point , a new opportunity should be given to over 10 million people who were covered only by state provision . |
| 45 | Even more to the point , a leak of this kind simply hands to the Opposition a weapon on a silver plate and raises fears on your own benches . |
| 46 | And even more to the point — what are the other emotions ? |
| 47 | Tony Beard in Record Mirror was even more to the point : ‘ Indie kids the world over breathe a sigh of relief : this ai n't no sell-out ! ’ |
| 48 | And the workers ' skills in the giant rolling mills and small cutlery works add even more to the value of the products . |
| 49 | The expansion of business and industry in all the main ports and towns of Scotland also brought with it an influx of work-hungry ‘ inlanders ’ , as well as islanders , adding even more to the tensions . |
| 50 | Scientific explanations , scientists like M. Hammerton inform us , huffing and puffing away like the good little , non-pontificating rational beings they are , are completely objective phenomena , and value-free , which is even more to the point . |
| 51 | But there 's even more to it than I 've already told you . |
| 52 | If it depended for government on the whims of its grandees , Georgian Sussex owed even more to their changing habits as members of leisured society , the relatively small but wealthy group whose fashions determined large areas of the economy in pre-industrial England . |
| 53 | This was partly because of respect for Andy Tyrie , the intelligent supreme commander , but even more to the existence of battalions outside Belfast that were well disciplined with dedicated officers and that were free of crime . |
| 54 | But they owe , if anything , even more to Essene tradition . |
| 55 | Even more to the point is the actual rarity of defences of the pluralist position . |
| 56 | The answer to problem one was a makeshift modification which ultimately added even more to the Dalek 's appeal . |
| 57 | Exotic substances owed part of their prestige to their mere difference from ones available in the home environment , but even more to the fact that obtaining them from a distance might and in civilized societies normally did reflect the exercise of power . |
| 58 | Even more to the point , how can it move its gripper to a given position ? |
| 59 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 60 | But this theory begs a question : if the score was copied for a revival , or indeed after it , why was it done in haste , and — even more to the point — why were there blanks which had to be filled in by the composer ? |