Example sentences of "was even [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
| 2 | Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements . |
| 3 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 4 | If it was even slightly formal she had only one . |
| 5 | It was even too dark for her to be able to see her own car . |
| 6 | It was even too hard to take for the traditionally cynical press . |
| 7 | Like his mother , Leonard was even then subject to alternating highs and lows , which added spice to their friendship . |
| 8 | Lord Keith was followed in the navy by his nephew , Admiral Fleming of Cumbernauld , who was even further estranged from the Administration by his support of parliamentary reform . |
| 9 | The only person he was even remotely respectful to was Mickey . |
| 10 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |
| 11 | Montaine 's entire existence belonged to Mme Guérigny and Jean-Claude , and every detail of it , everything that was even remotely reminiscent of it , was in their custody . |
| 12 | The Albanian leader could express his shock at the gangsterish methods of Gheorghiu-Dej in the late 1940s without for one moment admitting to himself , let alone to his readers , that he was even remotely hypocritical given his own tendency to resort to rubbing out rivals personally ( including shooting his prime minister and long-term comrade-in-arms , Mehmet Shehu , in 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Between ourselves , I was even quite impressed . |
| 14 | Except for Ben , of course , the eldest son , who had acquired a little polish somewhere and was even quite stylish today , Amabel thought , in his brocade waistcoat with a rather splendid diamond pin in his cravat . |
| 15 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 16 | It was even less palatable now that its strength made the taste discernible . |
| 17 | Okay , its three-litre V6 engine was reasonably lusty and the lack of buffeting with the hood down was impressive , but the chassis was even less inspiring than I expected . |
| 18 | Retreat was even less inviting , and consultation with the others impracticable . |
| 19 | She was even less impressed by this lyric scan . |
| 20 | Mr Lal 's English was even less fluent than my Hindi , so we chatted , ungrammatically , in his tongue . |
| 21 | Paul Robeson — himself a belatedly famed son of the Law School — might embody law and song , and F.R. Scott might embody law and poetry , but even he recognised the more profound call of the muse : ‘ poetry first , ’ he had said ‘ and the poetic element all the way through , ’ which in the hurly-burly of the clothing industry , was even less possible . |
| 22 | But Soutine 's painting was even less accessible than Modigliani 's . |
| 23 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 24 | The obscure world of warfare between microbial species had suggested some promising substances , but was even less successful than chemotherapy . |
| 25 | Apart from the symphonies , Mozart 's compositions of 1788 include the Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , written in February ( it is not known if Mozart ever played it in public ) ; several new numbers for the Vienna première of Don Giovanni in May ( despite starring Caterina Cavalieri as Donna Elvira and Aloysia Lange as Donna Anna , the opera was even less successful there than Figaro , having only 15 further performances ) ; three piano trios written for Puchberg ; a piano sonata , and a quantity of light vocal music . |
| 26 | Besides , the climate of opinion on charging for information services in the UK in 1977 was even less hospitable than it is now . |
| 27 | Andropov died early , but Chernenko 's sickly reign in the Kremlin was brief and when Andropov 's protégé , Gorbachev , came to power he was even less sympathetic towards Ceauşescu than his patron had been . |
| 28 | Cricket was even less open to the winds of free competition . |
| 29 | I think too that because I had postponed rather than rejected sexuality , the latter model was even less acceptable . |
| 30 | He was even less happy now , and anyway preferred his garden and a glass of wine to beer and the Victory Arms . |