Example sentences of "even [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But that is , if you go up under your own steam I mean even dearer than the way we did it . |
| 2 | I can see them appealing to players who want to change from a rack unit crammed with sounds that are hardly ( if ever ) used , back to something which is as simple as , or even simpler than a row of pedals . |
| 3 | The act of castration brought the criminal to a level even lower than the Untouchables . |
| 4 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 5 | It 's even bigger than the buses that go past . |
| 6 | An ‘ albatross ’ , three shots below par , was one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one . |
| 7 | ‘ An albatross , as I was saying , is one of the rarest phenomena in golf , even rarer than a hole in one which of course we have also seen today . |
| 8 | The Temple of Artemis at Ephesos was even larger than the Didyma temple and measured 391 feet by 211 feet in plan . |
| 9 | May 1986 The Centro de Arte Reina Sofía opens in the former General Hospital of Madrid and Atocha , a Neo-classical building designed by the Italian architect Francesco Sabatini to be even larger than the Escorial , but which never grew beyond pavilions surrounding a large courtyard . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Hank , how exciting ! ’ exclaimed Isobel , her face going even pinker than the wind had made it . |
| 11 | She turned up a lane which was even steeper than the road she had just left . |
| 12 | Telephone message forms are even better than a pad as they prevent you from forgetting to ask relevant questions . |
| 13 | But it turned out to be even better than the ads said . |
| 14 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 15 | For once , the product had turned out to be even better than the advert . |
| 16 | If this theory is correct , the rendering of the Horngarth service is even older than the era of St Hilda . |
| 17 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 18 | Perhaps even more than the Bard himself realised . ’ |
| 19 | We need clean rivers even more than the rest of the population of our planet ! |
| 20 | Even more than the exaltation of influence , the love of secrecy was concerned with the exercise of power which had its source not in the collective past but in the force of the individual will . |
| 21 | The trouble was that Uncle Mick loved baseball even more than the Giants and he would travel any distance to see a good game . |
| 22 | From end to end , the curve of mountain wall which faces you occupies a full 180 degrees , and measures all but nine miles along the crest ; but even more than the width it is the depth that awes one at Gavarnie , because the cirque is very deep , with an average drop from crest to valley floor of 5,500 feet . |
| 23 | Even more than the theories discussed before , utilitarianism ignores the problematic issue of the discourse 's scientific object , the subject . |
| 24 | According to Bob Wall : ‘ What impressed Chapman even more than the sureness of his hands was Frank 's physical courage . |
| 25 | For Abie this Friday meant something special ; there was even more than the Sabbath to return to . |
| 26 | The largest litter produced by any placental mammal is even more than the opossum 's — thirty-two . |
| 27 | Even more than the image was shattered . |
| 28 | They were speculators , who hoped to sell it for even more than the showroom price even though it meant tying up a £50,000 deposit for four years . |
| 29 | A kestrel is even smaller than a barn owl — it may only weigh six to seven ounces , and could easily lose a quarter of an ounce overnight in cold weather because of the energy it uses up trying to maintain its body heat . |
| 30 | A plasmid is even smaller than a virus , and it normally consists of only a few genes . |