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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And you , you come even less to our house . |
| 5 | As we go even deeper to five thousand metres the concentrations begin to right again and the ratio begins to change . |
| 6 | And perhaps even more to us as modern actors was Alison Legatt , then playing with Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence every evening . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even more to the point , a new opportunity should be given to over 10 million people who were covered only by state provision . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And even more to the point — what are the other emotions ? |
| 11 | 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 ! ’ |
| 12 | And the workers ' skills in the giant rolling mills and small cutlery works add even more to the value of the products . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But there 's even more to it than I 've already told you . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But they owe , if anything , even more to Essene tradition . |
| 19 | Even more to the point is the actual rarity of defences of the pluralist position . |
| 20 | The answer to problem one was a makeshift modification which ultimately added even more to the Dalek 's appeal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Even more to the point , how can it move its gripper to a given position ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | The shooting and fishing I enjoyed , but I soon looked forward even more to being with my uncle . |
| 26 | Cultural evolution is many orders of magnitude faster than DNA-based evolution , which sets one even more to thinking of the idea of ‘ takeover ’ . |
| 27 | But perhaps more importantly , do any companies get real value from the large sums they spend trying to persuade a gullible or not so gullible public that they are modern and go-ahead — or , even more to the point , how many logos that do not contain the company name ( like BP or ICI ) are recognised unprompted by the average person ? |
| 28 | To make the book come even more to life , the author introduces hypothetical characters , the Sportsman , the Visitor and the Engineer , and it does not take much imagination to think of their behaviour in driving or road design . |
| 29 | It is useless if you are fishing any distance from the bank , or even close to the bank but a distance downstream , for in this instance it may attract fish past your baited hook and to the source of the feed . |
| 30 | But a crucial ingredient in their success was the fielding of the team ( with Bland at the forefront ) and if Jonty Rhodes can inspire his team to come even close to such heights then the South African team of the 1990s may well go one step further than their illustrious predecessors . |