Example sentences of "more [adj] than even [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |