Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] even [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strongest impetus , he said , comes from museums ' reassessment of their role in society which the profession sees as far broader than even a decade ago . |
| 2 | At the lower end of the scale the items may be far shoddier than even the cheapest village or nomadic rug ; at the higher end , one can find work of the most outstanding calibre and sophistication . |
| 3 | What precisely he could do about it was not immediately clear since even the Mamur Zapt 's writ did not normally extend to the domestic relationship between man and wife . |
| 4 | Given the history of socialist economies , it is doubtful whether even a far more radical and complete transformation of the relations of production would , of itself , have removed this basis for class differentiation , and for this reason Morris remains a problematic model for contemporary socialism . |
| 5 | The vast majority of social research employs ordinal data or , more rarely , the interval scale : even in such cases it is doubtful whether even the most developed of such scales actually satisfy the requirements . |
| 6 | The resulting aircraft is much more versatile than even the legendary DC-3 and avoids the ever increasing costs of maintaining and operating a piston engined aircraft — turbine fuel is available worldwide but fuel for reciprocating engines is available in an ever diminishing number |
| 7 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 8 | Organisers of the 1994 World Cup finals admit they face an uphill battle in winning the support of US television viewers for a sporting event that to the rest of the world is bigger than even the Olympics . |
| 9 | But on a much longer time-scale , involving thousands of years , they behave differently and can ‘ flow ’ like a highly-viscous liquid , millions of times more viscous than even the stickiest treacle . |
| 10 | A particularly difficult problem is the passage of fragments down the cystic duct ; provided these fragments pass into the common bile duct endoscopic sphincterotomy successfully manages the situation ( patient VII , XI ) , but if the stone remains in the cystic duct removal can be impossible as even the smallest scope or basket will not dislodge the stone ( patient XII ) . |
| 11 | There is not so much as even a prima facie case for imagining that the ad hoc domestic forces available for the Latin music and the English devotional settings bore any close resemblance to the stereotyped and institutionalized vocal dispositions ( SAATB , succeeding SATB and SATTB ) supplied by the contemporary church choir ; these several bodies of music need to be addressed separately . |
| 12 | They argued that it was often non-culpable since even the most respectable workers could not always save sufficient to provide for old age — a hazard which not all could expect to live to experience and whose length was uncertain . |
| 13 | Although he was only eighteen months older than Carrie he was in the top class and sometimes he was taught on his own by Mr Morgan , the Minister , because he was cleverer than even the most senior boys . |
| 14 | It may nevertheless be better than even a reasonable harmonium or American organ . |
| 15 | The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared . |
| 16 | No wonder Milton was aware that the ways of God needed more justifying than even the greatest of English epics could contrive to do ; and Paradise Lost , as Empson believed , is a poem more than occasionally conscious of the ultimate injustice of the dogma of atonement , and it thrives poetically on its contradictions . |
| 17 | An account of professional courses — at least with respect to PGCE — is in principle just as complex because even the advent of accreditation has not enforced uniformity . |
| 18 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 19 | A bundle of light fibres , which together forms a cable smaller in diameter than a coaxial wire , can carry several hundred TV channels — more than even the most hardened television addict will ever require . |
| 20 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 21 | It 's more than even the 150th anniversary three years ago.The entry includes South Africans and Russians . |
| 22 | After a demoralising season of gallery retractions and closures , more severe than even the most pessimistic expectations of a year ago , it is gratifying to report a promising new gallery which opened in a large industrial space in West Hampstead in the middle of last month . |
| 23 | Gozzard wanted to deal with headhunters who were businessmen and businesswomen in their own right , and this was much more important than even the most sophisticated data banks . |
| 24 | Beneath and down-wind of the ash cloud there is a steady rain of fine ash particles , sometimes falling so thickly that a dark curtain appears to be hanging beneath the cloud , while in and around it electrical storms rage , with lightning flickering frequently , so that the whole effect is much more dramatic than even the most ominous of thunderclouds . |
| 25 | In the 1977 US survey , people were asked to give the order of importance that they attached to various different types of disclosure information about credit terms , and more ( 62 per cent ) mentioned APRs first than even the size of their monthly payment ( which was judged the next most important ) . |
| 26 | If , as one estimate has it , there are 100 billion billion planets , this is 100 billion times greater than even the very low SGP that we postulated . |
| 27 | Still , industrial work itself , in its characteristic structure and setting , and urbanisation — life in the rapidly growing cities — were certainly the most dramatic forms of the new life ; new because even the continuity of some local occupation or town concealed far-reaching changes . |
| 28 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |
| 29 | Dissection classes with small groups of students are excellent since even the squeamish can take part as onlookers , whilst a fellow student performs the dissection . |