Example sentences of "more [adj] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nature , however , proved more subtle than even Maxwell had imagined . |
| 2 | There is , however , something of a quantitative scale whereby the more important to us a particular belief may be , the more subtle and even ambiguous will be the evidence for it . |
| 3 | Otherwise it took more subtle and even secret forms — such as the semi-secret societies among stockmen like ‘ the horseman 's word ’ . |
| 4 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is all very well for modern econometric historians to argue retrospectively that slave or serf agriculture was actually more profitable or even more efficient than agriculture manned by free labour . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ With many people 's desires to move being delayed or not taking place because of job and housing difficulties there may well be demands to make cities more acceptable or even attractive places to live , ’ said Miss Hughes . |
| 9 | ‘ And you have been more quick-witted than even I expected . ’ |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the converse may also be true : where increasingly conservative views prevail at the more central locations of political power , it is still possible for individual teachers to take a more liberal and even radical stance . |
| 11 | It barely represented the true drama of the moment , though Nicholson was better informed than most on the subject because apart from being a friend of Polanski , he gleaned first-hand accounts by attending the trial of Manson and his disciples , whose story proved to be more gruesome than even Hollywood could either manufacture or exploit in a movie . |
| 12 | The " confident " party were all the more delighted because even they had come to entertain one or two small doubts . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | It can scarcely be claimed that this provides a much more authoritative or even revealing account of the composition of the Pactus than does the shorter prologue , but it is nevertheless worthy of some consideration . |
| 15 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If women were much more likely than men to be in low status jobs , and if female employees almost never went absent from work , it might seem that people doing low status jobs were no more likely or even less likely than others to absence . |
| 18 | Writing and reporting skills are now much more sophisticated than even five years ago , and much more is expected of nurses and health visitors in completing documentation , preparing care plans and relating progress and evaluation reports , and in providing background reports for the information and assistance of other health professionals . |
| 19 | Its qualifications for taming England supporters look from this distance more compelling than even Sardinia 's . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 22 | The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared . |
| 23 | Springing up she feels not more powerful but even clumsier , so she sits down again . |
| 24 | In the former case , analysis necessarily requires extensive and systematic survey procedures , by contrast with the more selective and even arbitrary treatment of ‘ content ’ in non-sociological studies This is true also of the latter case , where the cultural research into fictional ‘ types ’ can be combined with broader analysis of the changing social significance of certain socially ‘ typical ’ figures ( policeman and detective , doctor , nurse , priest , criminal and so on ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is now much more important because even in dismissals the ERA provides only for an appeal to another panel of governors : there is no provision for appeals to the LEA . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In holiday camps seasonal workers are also found in more skilled and even supervisory positions . |
| 30 | Well , it was more disappointing than even we had expected . |