Example sentences of "[is] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists are still unable to tell us what it is or even how it works . |
| 2 | Here , it is so very easy to forget what time of the day it is or even what day it is . |
| 3 | But the sad fact is that even if it is possible to achieve a co-incidence between desire and responsibility , ecstasy and concern , Weller is incapable of such a balance . |
| 4 | The second caveat is that even this amount of support is reduced when hypothetical compromises are put to the public . |
| 5 | The second is that even if the stockmarket does eventually rise by enough to persuade holders to exercise the warrants , issuers will have to plan and to some extent act as if it will not . |
| 6 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
| 7 | An implication of the last point is that even when the initial exposure to the stimulus has been prolonged or has involved repeated presentations , it should be possible to detect some loss of the latent inhibition effect over time , provided the interval before the start of conditioning is long enough . |
| 8 | One consequence of this fact is that even when Canada cuts its imports to nothing which , in net terms occurred in 1983 — there is nevertheless a large national deficit on the oil account because heavier oils are exported while higher value lighter oils are imported . |
| 9 | The fact is that even infants can influence their upbringing by means of inborn qualities such as temperament . |
| 10 | ONE OF the most important lessons of game theory is that even if everyone is agreed on the most desirable course of action — for example , nuclear disarmament — a collection of individuals or nations acting independently may find it difficult to achieve the most desirable aims . |
| 11 | The second problem is that even if we are able to provide functionality with replacement materials , we have to place them within , and thereby create an interface with , the tissues of the body which are extremely aggressive to any invading agent but which are also exquisitely sensitive to their presence . |
| 12 | The second problem is that even if a motorist — despite all the odds — actually adheres to the recommended limits , all the evidence points to the fact that he or she is still driving too fast for the safety of local residents . |
| 13 | What seems abundantly clear is that even if there were not the three months ' residence requirement in the case of Northern Ireland , it would still be necessary , in order to qualify to vote , for a person to have there a ‘ residence ’ in which he spent a substantial part of the year . |
| 14 | The deeper reason for our doubt — and faith — is that even what we know rests only on the foundations of what we do not know . |
| 15 | The other is that even if subsidiaries of large companies are attracted to a particular region , and the company decides to develop innovations in that location , there is always the possibility that the firm ( likely to be a multinational corporation ) will relocate its plant , or switch manufacturing to other plants , and the local/regional authority will be powerless to intervene . |
| 16 | ‘ The truth is that even one drink can impair driving performance . |
| 17 | The experience of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) is that even imprudent or reckless credit use rarely on its own produces serious debt problems . |
| 18 | What is surprising is that even after their post-'87 conversion to the gospel of the groove , they still retain a belief in the power of the word . |
| 19 | What needs to be remembered is that even when the ‘ wrong ’ word or phrase is used , in error , it can be rectified . |
| 20 | But what is interesting is that even die-hard sexists have had to change their argument in defence of traditional usage . |
| 21 | ‘ The trouble is that even when it 's a bad virus it always looks like ‘ flu — and remember , the polio itself dies out in about a week . |
| 22 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |
| 23 | The main point is that even when examples could be non-sex specific , these books make them sex specific . |
| 24 | Schmitt 's claim is that even in present-day Eskimo the verb translated into English as ‘ kill ’ is a peripheral modification of the noun for ‘ booty ’ . |
| 25 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |
| 26 | One possible explanation is that even though reproductive success probably varies more widely among males in these species , maternal rank has a stronger effect on the success of daughters since females remain in their mother 's troop and inherit her rank while sons disperse to other groups and may be unable to benefit substantially from their mother 's rank ( Altmann , 1980 ) . |
| 27 | The important point , however , is that even in the dark days of May 1940 the Home Office was very reluctant to destroy the fascist movement , and the Security Service joined the campaign to intern Mosley and the most important members of the movement only after information had been acquired which suggested secretive behaviour and links with potentially treasonable behaviour . |
| 28 | The problem with Destiny is that even at $350 — which will only buy kernel-level stuff — it is still much more expensive than MS-DOS/Windows , and Microsoft Corp is sure to pitch NT at some attractive price point well below USL 's . |
| 29 | My position therefore is that even seemingly untheoretical statements about family law of a common-sensical and pragmatic mode are based on theory . |
| 30 | Nagel 's profound point is that even where the agent is at the mercy of fate , and though it seems irrational upon reflection , our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without attributing to the agent responsibility and culpability in a wide range of cases of moral luck . |