Example sentences of "even [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She was n't even dead yet .
2 Remarkable how emotionally involved one became with a situation like this — on the one hand wanting to keep the hospital 's backwater unrippled , on the other finding the stir and the fuss and the questioning exciting , even rather agreeably so .
3 This was , perhaps , because there was an increasing number of women readers with leisure to spend a whole afternoon buried in a book from the lending library , institutions which flourished mightily in the years between 1918 and 1945 and even somewhat later .
4 In the Pacific , coral reefs were even less adequately charted than the beaches of North Africa or the fjords of Norway , but as the techniques of assault pilotage developed , more details of the natural hazards became clear .
5 An even less easily defined aspect of a horse 's temperament than tolerance , is the horse 's cheerfulness , gaiety , animation , or ‘ smart way of going' ; with its opposite being placidity and peacefulness .
6 Even less clearly struck has been the Government 's attempt to reduce dependency on means-tested welfare .
7 All critics , however dispassionate , bring to their subject thick encrustations of personal prejudice and , which they are probably even less well equipped to notice , assumptions which are attributable to the spirit of the age .
8 Since it will become apparent that in Yugoslavia the division between fiscal and monetary policies is even less well defined than in many other countries , this latter section will contain a discussion of the combined effects of fiscal and monetary policies on the state of the economy .
9 Classical music fared even less well .
10 It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before .
11 Well I found it difficult because I I still can nae play golf well , but I could play even less well then .
12 And if research does not fit the pattern , teaching generally fitted it even less well .
13 Oliver , moreover , agreed with Mr Dickens , and this want down even less well . )
14 Other even less well known players ?
15 Intermediates could see even less well than their imperfect ancestors , and it is no consolation that they are building better eyesight for their remote descendants !
16 The intestinal permeability test result was even less reliably related to the gliadin intake than the antigliadin antibody test .
17 A quick and clean military victory for the American-led alliance ( or , even less plausibly , a sudden withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait ) would be the best outcome both for the market and for the economy .
18 Thus arguments for controlling local authorities ' spending would appear to weigh even less powerfully within monetarist theory than in Keynesian arguments .
19 The collection and analysis of data are even less clear cut for those facilities situated within NHS hospitals but managed by private companies .
20 It may happen only once in twenty-four hours , and often even less frequently .
21 When meetings are held only once a year , or even less frequently , it is all too easy to forget why a particular provision was formulated and on what grounds one supported or opposed it .
22 " At Advanced level in History , the ability to write serviceable English is a prerequisite but it is even less frequently attained .
23 The peltae are hollow , as at Chedworth , although they are drawn now even less gracefully than their counterparts from building XIV , 2 , Cirencester .
24 They are taking responsibility , either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government , but to pretend that somehow we can not at all , some of the cuts that are made , that the f the other , does not convince us , I 'm sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today .
25 The upshot of this was that a number of companies pulled out of the timber-frame house-building market and the proportion of houses built by this method had dropped from 24 to 17 per cent by the beginning of 1984 , and is even less now .
26 ‘ I did n't like it when you started , and I like it even less now .
27 We were not very happy to find that Hillsborough had been chosen and even less so when we were allocated the Leppings Lane End .
28 But if the person involved were prepared to take a chance , he would be even less so at six o'clock . ’
29 If the subject contrast is very flat the dilution of Rodinal can be lowered to 1:25 or even less so that the increased developer activity boosts the exposed high-tone areas and produces a negative with an expanded tonal range .
30 With a few exceptions , insectivores are much less commonly represented in pellet assemblages , and lagomorphs even less so , and it has proved impossible to obtain large enough samples of these species to provide numerical data .
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