Example sentences of "[be] even [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his autobiography he dismissed Gerry Daly as a player ‘ who lacked grey matter ’ and during his days as manager of Derby County he once told a player ‘ You 're very deceptive son — you 're even slower than you look . ’ |
| 2 | How come every time I see you you 're even lovelier than I remember . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've lost three pounds and I 'm back to my weight of all last season , 13 stone , although I will be even sharper if I come down another couple of pounds . |
| 4 | They 'll be even bigger than anything seen on Independence Day and the players will be rewarded accordingly . ’ |
| 5 | This situation appears to be even worse as we move south through Europe , since even allowing for differences between the languages , Bjornsson notes that Italian , Spanish and Portuguese papers have very high scores , due in large part to sentences with a mean length of over 30 words . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd be even keener if he knew what we 're really up to . |
| 7 | ‘ Then he must be even stronger than he looks , ’ Rab said . |
| 8 | SCUM are probably kidding themsleves that they are so good … be even sweeter when they come crashing down ! |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , Havvie , ’ Sally-Anne murmured ; this was going to be even harder than she had thought — and she had said nothing to her uncle Orrin — she could not , not until her engagement was irrevocably over . |
| 10 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 11 | I know my mother would n't agree and she would be even mad if she knew he was a black boy . |
| 12 | Mr Wilkie got ten out of the 12 questions correct , and only got the other two wrong — the size of the £2,000 band and the increase in duty on unleaded petrol — by thinking the Chancellor would be even tougher than he turned out to be . |
| 13 | Its impact could probably have been even greater but it ceased to become available to students by 1980 and this was unfortunate when many much less meritorious texts have soldiered on ! |
| 14 | He said he had the same ability as Wino but pointed out that he ( Gray ) was injured at 16 and never fully recovered , so his potential would have been even greater than it turned out . |
| 15 | Yet great as his gifts were to us , they would surely have been even greater if he had had the knowledge we now possess and especially the translations of the poets and mystics of the orient . |
| 16 | Disappointments are rare and sometimes people are even better than you 'd imagined . |
| 17 | ‘ Nice little earners are even nicer when they grow into big earners , ’ said Sorrel philosophically . |
| 18 | They argue that , after the referendum , the president is in a position of strength , while his opponents are even weaker than they look . |
| 19 | He said the miners were being asked to accept wages that were even lower than they 'd been before the war and that their working conditions were appalling . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I think I 'll have one , ’ said Brian , and Scarlet saw that things were even worse than they seemed , for now his tone was artificial : he was making conversation about something so trivial as pouring himself a drink . |
| 21 | Beneath the casual silk shirt his shoulders were even wider than she 'd thought , and he was taller . |
| 22 | The risk is even higher if you smoke and drink heavily . |
| 23 | ‘ If that 's what you think then your ego is even bigger than I suspected ! ’ |
| 24 | The problem is even bigger than he suggests . |
| 25 | It is even possible that nobody had ever anticipated a particular situation arising . |
| 26 | This is even clearer when we examine the basic social relations underlying this asymmetry . |
| 27 | The nature of this description is even clearer if one deletes the pauses , interjections , and the ums and ahs ; the patient describes the picture thus : ‘ Girl and boy , girl , cloth and steps , steps , window , curtains , a pot and an … ’ |
| 28 | Be even worse if they played his singing over the tannoy though would n't it ? |
| 29 | And it 's even better because I 've outwitted the TEAM , and there should be something good on tele tonight , and I wonder what there is to eat . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 're reasonably fit you 'll be all right — and it 's even better if you play hockey in one of its forms , ’ he stressed . |