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

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1 If the design appears clear and even throughout , and the foundation strands form a neat grid , then the knotting is almost certainly regular .
2 That question raises a further and even more interesting one about the status of different kinds of accounts .
3 Consumers who saw their commitments enlarge so dramatically as a result of higher interest rates , who found themselves over-committed , and then found themselves unemployed and even less able to meet those commitments , will not rush out and spend money even if they have more of it .
4 The main tower of the fortress is nine storeys high and even today looks forbidding .
5 He 's been playing since he was eleven years old and even now scores regularly for his team .
6 The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time .
7 There was a row of three , and the middle one was empty and even quite clean .
8 The calamity was discovered after he left , and the next morning he gave a totally different and even more eloquent record to Edison 's enterprising representative , Colonel Gouraud ’ .
9 There is , however , another and even more serious aspect of the closed mind which has had a profound effect on British archaeological thinking .
10 Second , this war has been lost at another and even more terrible level : it is destroying our Serb feeling that our wars were just wars and that we behave honourably .
11 Another and even more importantly irrelevant difference is that thermometer readings are linguistic : they say explicitly what they 're signs of .
12 This has been the fate of the foundation of human sociability — they have been comprehensively repressed , because if they had not been then the conflict between man 's instinctual drives and his social existence would have been even more painful and even more disruptive than it is .
13 Though committed to increasing the number of bishops in England since the council of Hertford in 672 ( HE IV , 5 ) , he did not attempt ( so far as is known ) to partition Wilfrid 's vast diocese of York until Ecgfrith quarrelled with Wilfrid and expelled him in 678 and even then king and archbishop appear to have been in agreement about the subdivision ( HE IV , 12 : V , 19 , 24 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 24 ) .
14 To make sure you get the magazine you really need , from next month we 've planned lots of exciting changes which will made Parents bigger and even better .
15 The school was getting even bigger and even more successful .
16 The images of Führer and Party , which for almost a decade after the ‘ seizure of power ’ had been largely separate and even diametrically opposed , were now starting to blur in public consciousness .
17 Only the tips of the radial shields are visible and even then they may carry spinelets .
18 Not as suspenseful , or as gross , as some claim , The Silence Of The Lambs is still horror 's most glamorous film yet , elegant , vicious and even drily amusing .
19 And the sponges had been known to move and not be right and even today they 've when they 've had this er what is it , this er operation for it they 've conceived after have n't they ?
20 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 .
21 Within systems quite as impersonal and even more technically complex than the printed book , the manifest cultural relations have this apparent and often real immediacy .
22 Even forgetting the fact that the Cobra was the fastest accelerating car you could buy at the time , that only puts it between the £21,620 Elan SE and the entry level £26,400 Excel SE , close to the £22,363 Morgan plus eight and even closer to the £23,526 Toyota Supra Turbo .
23 However within this age-group there is a rising proportion of those over 75 and even more so of those over 85 , who are projected to make up 12 per cent of the elderly in 2001 , compared with less than 8 per cent in 1983 .
24 Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) .
25 The weather , though chillier than in Famagusta , was dry and even intermittently sunny .
26 Furthermore , because a substantial section of this criminalized population is stigmatized and discriminated against , particularly in the field of employment , its reproduction is secured ; many of them , out of resentment , injustice , or desperation , turn to more persistent and even more serious forms of crime .
27 In other words it is a part of the larger and even more complex issue of the relevance of current cost accounting .
28 What do you think would be the main secret of maintaining a healthy sex life into one 's seventies and even beyond ?
29 Some days I 'll eat until I feel sick and even then carry on eating .
30 Other schemes for the training of diplomats were less ambitious and even less effective .
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