Example sentences of "even [adj -er] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he would return , the two would feel even closer than before the quarrel and they would soon be moving about the yard together , chatting away . |
| 2 | Inside Bellavista life is even cheaper than on the streets of Medellin . |
| 3 | The even more rapid decline in the two-party vote in Britain is to some extent compensated for by the increased vote for the smaller parties since the 1970s , but in the United States the proportion of the electorate mobilized by the parties is almost certainly even smaller because of the growing number of single-issue pressure groups in recent years . |
| 4 | Party discipline in the Senate is even weaker than in the House ; several powerful senators have a better-than-nodding acquaintance with the petrochemical industry ; and the Senate Finance Committee , which starts looking at the bill on June 7th , has a Democratic majority of only 11 to nine . |
| 5 | Overcrowding on the bus service is even worse than on the train service . |
| 6 | The latest government figures show that incidents of Salmonella , the most common type of food poisoning , reached an all-time high last month , even higher than during the Salmonella-in-eggs scandal . |
| 7 | Outside Senegal and the Ivory Coast there was very little press to speak of in the pre-independence period : illiteracy was even higher than in the British territories , and the small , educated élite could not easily sustain newspapers . |
| 8 | In the Sunday market the quality — popular division became even sharper than among the dailies when the qualities turned themselves into large scale Sunday magazines . |
| 9 | Egyptian forces again proved militarily superior to the Turks ; the Turkish fleet went over to the enemy ; the Sultan died when hostilities were at their peak ; and an Egyptian march on Constantinople seemed even likelier than at the end of 1832 . |
| 10 | Their hatred for each other was even greater than for the capitalist enemy , and they were constantly locked in internecine warfare in which they accused each other.of a battery of heinous crimes . |
| 11 | Opportunities for choice and exploration were restricted , and the emphasis on control and conformity at this vital stage of children 's development was even greater than in the high schools . |
| 12 | Yet the disparities of wealth and poverty were , if anything , even greater than in the countryside . |
| 13 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |