Example sentences of "even [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is rarely under the control of the producer country , even less the actual direct producer , the farmer , but is increasingly coming under the control of the TNC conglomerates that manage the global food system . |
| 2 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 3 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 4 | Even so the age-old hierarchy prevailed . |
| 5 | The current Indian election was spread over three days to enable security forces to move from one area to another ; but even so the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are reported to have used musclemen to capture booths in the first round of the election . |
| 6 | It became increasingly difficult for assistance from outside to reach the nationalists , and their united front with the communists was no more than skin deep , but even so the Japanese could not extract a surrender . |
| 7 | Even so the slow trains from Peterborough to Leicester , via Stamford , Oakham and Melton Mowbray , give us , visually , one of the great railway journeys for those who can appreciate the English landscape . |
| 8 | But even so the soft clang rang sharply in the silence and echoed around him as he made his way down the nave . |
| 9 | Even so the British were able to dilute the more extreme American demands for their integration into Western Europe , for the introduction of American managerial methods , and for trade liberalization . |
| 10 | Even so the proposed reorganisation did , of course , represent a substantial concentration of power into fewer decision-making organisations . |
| 11 | Er , but even so the running boards did look very complicated because on one half an hour he 'd probably go and do a Six A run , another one a Six B run , a Two and a Four . |
| 12 | Just as the water relates about the stars and the moon , even so the physical form relates about intellect and spirit . |
| 13 | Flatliners ' little hallucinatory moral dramas of American atonement ( and even perhaps the other ghost movies ) , have their roots in a different gimmick film Field Of Dreams , which turned the social and political divisions of the Sixties into a family affair which could be sorted by Kevin Costner throwing a baseball around with his ghost dad . |
| 14 | For such times are not even necessarily the obvious ones , ‘ the visible sequences of events recorded by the chronicler ’ , they may be invisible , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of … different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , only visible when their particular concepts are constructed and produced ‘ out of the differential nature and differential articulation of their objects in the structure of the whole ’ ( 101–03 ) . |
| 15 | It was more a punishment than a kiss and she hated it , but she hated even more the first faint stirring in her blood . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office and even more the armed services and intelligence organisations were alarmed at a commitment in the Labour Party election manifesto to reduce spending on defence . |
| 17 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 18 | Harlesden 's prince of glamour , Omar : even more the golden boy of UK soul thanks to his confident second album , ‘ Music ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Here and here alone ’ , as E. J. Hobsbawm has put it , ‘ the bourgeois and even more the petit-bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And be even more the obvious suspect ? ’ asked Ethel pityingly . |
| 21 | The appearance of large-scale peasant resistance in Tambov , and even more the sustained independent peasant movement led by the Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno during the Civil War , pointed to an irreconcilable clash of principle . |
| 22 | Moreover , the descriptive value of the term ‘ Finlandisation ’ and even more the historical parallel with Finland , as previously observed , are questionable . |
| 23 | There were times when she did n't mind Star 's anger , times even when she deliberately provoked it , waiting with half-shameful excitement for the extra-ordinary outburst of bitterness and despair of which she herself was less a victim than a privileged spectator , relishing even more the inevitable remorse and self-incrimination , the sweetness of reconciliation . |
| 24 | It was even harder the following day when he and MacMinimum rode north out of Waterford along the proposed route of the other railway , the Waterford & kilkenny . |
| 25 | This only serves to confuse even further the conceptual status of the terms ‘ local ’ and ‘ urban ’ . |
| 26 | This confusion of terms obscures even further the difficult technical problems of moving from a task description to a skill description . |
| 27 | So even though the whole thing is in fairly dark tones , there 's still plenty of detail . |
| 28 | However , even now the epidemiological evidence for the disadvantages of a sedentary lifestyle and Western diet in causing current epidemics of obesity and non-insulin dependent diabetes in the developing world provides a compelling basis for promoting primary prevention of these diseases . |
| 29 | Roads after three years of neglect are full of potholes ; even now the general public can not get electric light for streets or houses , though water and sewerage systems were got working very shortly after the liberation . |
| 30 | Even now the two Rainfords were watching from their own table and Maggie 's face flooded with colour at the looks she was getting from Peter Rainford . |