Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] even [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although passage through the gut did not improve germination rates , it must be remembered that the birds are the only frugivores large enough to deal with some of the fruits , e.g. Casuarius casuarius in Queensland taking Beilschmiedia ( Lauraceae ) fruits and passing the seeds more or less intact even though they are 6 cm diameter and weigh 52g . |
| 2 | She continued to look extremely doubtful even when Peregrine told the bystanders that it was none of our damn business what happened in Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 4 | They are less reliable even than the telephones . ’ |
| 5 | The smell of lion 's faeces makes red deer extremely nervous even though thousands of years have elapsed since the two species lived together . |
| 6 | alright you do n't ne , actually you do n't need your hood up , because it 's ever so warm even though it 's dull |
| 7 | Then , in 1985 , followed yet another grammar book — much larger even than GCE . |
| 8 | The demands of the king upon the realm for sacrifices and contributions towards the war effort would have been much less effective even than they were , had not the church acted as a kind of ministry of information and propaganda . |
| 9 | Any European Common Foreign and Security policy which includes Swedish and other neutral interests must be less effective even than that which can be expected to emerge from the current unsatisfactory record of EEC action in foreign affairs . |
| 10 | I 'm so hungry even though I 've eaten I feel like I ai n't eaten nothing . |
| 11 | The spermatozoon is much smaller even than the ovum and , although it is a single cell it consists of a " head " and long tail , which propels the sperm by quivering . |
| 12 | Landau pointed out that there was another possible final state for a star , also with a limiting mass of about one or two times the mass of the sun but much smaller even than a white dwarf . |
| 13 | In other words , either the present situation can be used as an opportunity to reform the system into something more rational and humane , or else it will deteriorate into something much worse even than the present . |
| 14 | Another interesting fact shown in the DVR accounts is that the average weekly number of employees has been reduced by only five even though the DVR now operates one railway . |
| 15 | A group of women talking about motherhood may either find some way of adjusting their differing statements so that they are all right , or else become locked in bitter disagreement , which is no less vitriolic even if it is not openly expressed . |
| 16 | Rommetveit argues that the sentence is not necessarily self-contradictory even if the individual referred to by the two nominal expressions is the same individual . |
| 17 | Given that he 'd stay under water in a seaway for at least some weeks , the face would be more or less unrecognisable even if he were washed ashore somewhere later on . |
| 18 | Less tenable even than that situation are those in which no policy exists and well-intentioned initiatives such as those described above or smoothly functioning inter-disciplinary networks succeed because of personnel rather than the execution of a statement of intent . |
| 19 | Eve was often so prickly even when she was in the whole of her health . |
| 20 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 21 | In personal injury cases the damage caused is usually all too painfully obvious even though its cause was a negligent act or omission many years before ; and time usually runs from the injury and not from the act or omission causing it . |
| 22 | If , as is possible , the optical company was in a monopolistic or oligopolistic position , they could afford to adopt work practices which were actually rather costly even though they gave higher levels of satisfaction to both workers and management . |
| 23 | Renewed famine , more devastating even than that of 1984-85 , threatened an estimated 8,000,000 of the population , who faced starvation in 1991 unless they received 1,500,000 tonnes of food , according to relief agency estimates [ see p. 37945 ] . |
| 24 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 25 | That way lay a danger more destructive even than guilt . |
| 26 | Throughout his reign Edward 's rule was marred and imperilled by his inordinate affection for , and reckless promotion of , men more tactless even than he was . |
| 27 | I cant see why we would have to be more careful even if we were ‘ official ’ . |
| 28 | This was a new definition of poor — a depth of misery more nauseating even that the stink that still rose from my stained boots . |
| 29 | The Skybolt crisis of December 1962 has been described by some as perhaps potentially more serious even than Suez , with the start of the meeting in Nassau proving the " angriest " of any Anglo-American postwar summit . |
| 30 | If we are to prioritize the study and publicization of one , surely it should be that which , in objective terms , causes more human suffering rather than the other which is perceived by the public to be the more serious even though they are clearly wrong . |