Example sentences of "even more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Superficially at least , Calvin was even more disparaging . |
| 2 | The more fish that are hooked and lost on inadequate tackle means an even more delicate approach is needed to hook these fish again , obviously with the same result , only faster . |
| 3 | Throughout his trials with the Sex Pistols , Richard Branson had been engaged in another , even more delicate negotiation , one which promised , at last , to provide the antidote to the enduring unhappiness over his broken marriage . |
| 4 | Electrostatic paper is even more delicate and if handled with damp hands the image will blur as the silver coating dissolves . |
| 5 | ‘ Might n't her position be even more delicate ? ’ |
| 6 | Even more covetable are the two Seagull Reflections ( 26 and 7 ) which , at £800 , are , alas , well beyond my purse . |
| 7 | POLLUTION in Cairo is on a level with Los Angeles and even more crowded , dirty and chaotic than London . |
| 8 | ‘ Free-range ’ can refer to animals kept in barns which are even more crowded than batteries . |
| 9 | The final dance item was a grand pas from Paquita , not the version we are accustomed to , but looking , if anything , even more authentic , and danced very much in the grand manner it deserves . |
| 10 | Officials in the Liberal Democratic Party have spent months building a consensus for the plan , both within the sceptical foreign ministry and among businessmen , who are even more dubious . |
| 11 | Others joined for even more dubious reasons . |
| 12 | Even more dubious is the assertion that ‘ they should concentrate on non-directive counselling , being careful to avoid dictating solutions . ’ |
| 13 | Right- wing politicians including our own Tory Party and those with even more dubious cre credentials and European employers are already active and working under the guise of economic liberators and democratizers . |
| 14 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 15 | What should make the situation even more galling for you , is the fact that a great deal of Scottish money has recently been invested in Scotland 's salmon streams in buying-off river nets and setting up fish hatcheries . |
| 16 | ‘ But it is even more galling when there is the prospect that foreigners may come in and do the work of dismantling it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But it is even more galling when there is the prospect that foreigners may come in and do the work of dismantling it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But it is even more galling when there is the prospect that foreigners may come in and do the work of dismantling it . |
| 19 | Bill added : ‘ The fact they have brought in head teachers makes it even more worthwhile . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We feel it is only further embittering loyalist paramilitaries and will make them even more hard-line . |
| 21 | This factual structure is intermingled with anecdotal family memories of the once popular London Welsh poet Lewis Morris , with some echoes of the people who encouraged Edward in his earliest published writings , and with an even more substantial use of Welsh and Swindon topics now missing from the numerous notebooks . |
| 22 | Coleridge must soon have taken the poem to read to the Wordsworths , and in the following month had an even more substantial achievement to show them . |
| 23 | Mr Wiggins added he would rather have seen road fund duty — raised from £110 to £125 — scrapped and replaced with even more substantial hikes in petrol prices than the 12p a gallon ( unleaded ) and 15p ( leaded ) set yesterday . |
| 24 | What is more surprising is that differentials by housing tenure are even more substantial . |
| 25 | Iraq , however , perhaps came to feel it could have been even more substantial . |
| 26 | In studying this period writers have tended to use ‘ government ’ to refer to elected party or civilian cabinets , whose position is eroded in the 1930s as the state became even more totalitarian . |
| 27 | Fritz gave an even more ghastly grin . |
| 28 | Fritz gave her an earnest look which was , if anything , even more ghastly and idiotic than his grin . |
| 29 | Mandeville and Southgate appeared , followed by the other secretary , Damien , his pallid face even more ghastly as he stared in terror at the fire enveloping his brother 's room . |
| 30 | She looked even more ghastly after the birth than before it , frightening McAllister . |