Example sentences of "even [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So great a change does not enter upon the national economic scene unnoticed , like Owen 's ‘ thief in the night ’ nor even conspicuously to the trumpetings of statutory provisions and the flourish of bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 2 | They 're now even on to the vile Trade Union Reform Bill , they 're accepting it admittedly but but they 're accepting it , but it 's in the wrong Bill it 's in the wrong place it should be up in the front . |
| 3 | Now there are cars parked right the way up and even on to the roundabout , and I think a lot of these erm persons erm with the cars are probably from the Polytechnic . |
| 4 | The cultural dynamics of transgressive reinscription suggest how both positions are correct : identification with , and desire for , may coexist with parodic subversion of , since a culture is not reducible to the specific desires of the individuals comprising it — desires which anyway differ considerably — and even less to the ‘ truth ’ of desire itself . |
| 5 | The tone of his detractors is modified , however , by those who fear that without Birt the right wing of the Conservative party would bring in a regime even less to their taste . |
| 6 | And you , you come even less to our house . |
| 7 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 8 | In some cases , however , the fine structure , even down to individual cells , is splendidly preserved , and these are the most important specimens from a scientific point of view . |
| 9 | Not only is it in remarkably good condition , it is also totally complete , even down to sacktrucks and shovels ! |
| 10 | ‘ It was Tiresias the prophet 's council to Menippus , that travelled the world over , even down to hell itself , to seek contentment , and his last farewell to Menippus , was to be merry . |
| 11 | The mass of instruments was like the cockpit of a seven-four-seven , even down to a control column . |
| 12 | If parents want to leave a child in the garden with a dog , it 's their responsibility , but anywhere else , even down to the local shop , children should never take a dog out . |
| 13 | The cake is decorated to look like a parcel , even down to the gift tag which is edible . |
| 14 | The performance of the instrument belies its humble price ; the action is even and consistent across all twenty-four frets , and even down to the relatively unflappable low B. The minimalist headstock and long top horn combine with the bass 's reasonable weight for a well-balanced and comfortable instrument , with total access to all frets an added bonus . |
| 15 | Collectors of bank-notes in Argentina are apparently now able to collect ‘ swaps ’ , notes identical to others in every single detail , even down to the serial numbers . |
| 16 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 17 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 18 | A recipe for it or a description of this beguiling dish of peppers , onions , tomatoes and eggs appears in every one of his books , even down to the booklet commissioned from him by the Romary biscuit firm and which sold for sixpence . |
| 19 | He was very much the product of the city — even down to his brown derby hat — and on Prohibition he was a " wet " . |
| 20 | The city was designed for these machines even down to the shape of control switches on their instruments . |
| 21 | Spotting an ideal target for a send-up , Dennis Spooner wrote his teleplay deliberately as a spoof of Carry On Cleo ( which , in turn , was a spoof on Quo Vadis ) , even down to persuading Verity Lambert and Director Christopher Barry to hire some of the cast of the film , for example Gertan Klauber . |
| 22 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |
| 23 | In doing this you will probably find that you have become concerned , not simply with the particular task they have to carry out , but with their relations with other officers carrying out other tasks or involved with other aspects of the investigation you are writing about , even down to such matters of internal etiquette as how high does an officer have to rank before he can go into the office of a superior without knocking ? |
| 24 | Harrods has the final say in whom its concessions may hire , even down to the lowliest positions , and Sally may have seemed the obvious choice to impress them . |
| 25 | The Russians on the other hand would have stripped me naked , even if the temperature was far below zero , and then would have sliced every article of my clothes , even down to my shoes , into tiny pieces . |
| 26 | The train has been painstakingly restored to all its former glory , even down to its traditional wood-burning stoves and original post box . |
| 27 | yes , under the Building Society Protection Act , if the society fails , you 're protected up to twenty thousand , and you 'll get eighteen thousand back , there 's a ninety percent protection , provided they 're members of the Building Society Association , which all are , er virtually , even down to things like the Clay Cross and the Staffordshire Railway , they 're all members of the Building Society Association , so they 're all covered . |
| 28 | By the time I had finished my Kachin fieldwork I had only to attend an animal sacrifice as a passive observer and then notice how the meat of the sacrifice was shared out among " the congregation and I could know , even down to quite line detail , the precise hierarchy and mutual relationship of everyone present , which might be thirty or more individuals altogether . |
| 29 | She held the basket on her knee and revelled in its contents , the treats she had ordered and checked meticulously , even down to a handful of sugar plums in their nests of perforated gold paper . |
| 30 | Followed it even down to the detail of Michael Banks not knowing his lines . |