Example sentences of "even [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even where marital intercourse is procured by extreme violence , this ought not , in the majority 's view , to suffice for rape . |
| 2 | To this extent , the Council is literally unaccountable to anyone , even where individual governments remain — in theory — answerable to their national Parliaments . |
| 3 | Even where part-time ( and full-time ) workers earn above the limit , they still may be disqualified from unemployment benefit unless they can satisfy the DSS that they can make adequate care arrangements for children or an elderly/sick person within twenty-four hours of finding a job . |
| 4 | Even where decentralized budgeting projects have been introduced , these have often taken the form of pilot projects or trials ( Progress in Financial Management in Government Departments , 1984 , especially Appendix 2 ) , whilst the authority delegated to budget holders has often been severely constrained ( not least by centrally determined manpower ceilings and pay scales ) . |
| 5 | Even where deep affection remains unaltered , the gap between them often becomes a chasm as years go by . |
| 6 | But what is important in the episode is what the narrator takes for granted : that when men of standing disputed , arbitration was hard to arrange , and often immediately unacceptable to the party which felt itself the loser by the judgement , even where monetary compensation was offered to soften the blow . |
| 7 | In other words , the effect would have been that , even where official DSS error was proven and admitted in the case of those receiving supplementary benefit prior to 1988 , no back payment to rectify the error would have been made . |
| 8 | The long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client/server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 9 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 10 | These experiments somewhat underestimate mutation rates because , even where new mutations are held heterozygous against balancer chromosomes , it is impossible to eliminate natural selection altogether if mutations are not completely recessive ; to take the extreme example , dominant lethals can never be accumulated . |
| 11 | Even where new activities constitute a separate use within the planning unit , the new use may be de minimis in planning terms . |
| 12 | Even where religious textual condemnation does not exist as in some societies , there is a strong cross-cultural feeling that such acts are ‘ against nature ’ or God . |
| 13 | The Nazi regime made a travesty of welfare and of youth policy and subjected every conceivable aspect to ideological purposes and to control by central government even where private organizations were allowed to continue operating . |
| 14 | Even where open fields remained , the methods of operation were radically changed to accommodate these new techniques , but the advantages of convertible husbandry were clearly greatest for those farmers with enclosed fields . |
| 15 | Parents continue to send children to school , even where physical conditions are very poor because of lack of maintenance . |
| 16 | Primitive medical facilities and dearth of welfare workers , counsellors or psychiatrists , even where considerable numbers of mentally ill prisoners are held ; |
| 17 | Even where elected representatives are aware of the vote-catching potential of courting the ethnic communities , they have given little thought to the educational implications of their policies , and even less effort to ensure that the policies are implemented . |
| 18 | Even where noble interests constituted no barrier , the government 's effective power was severely limited by the rudimentary nature of the bureaucratic apparatus available to it . |
| 19 | Even where baseless charges do " materially injure " a plaintiff 's reputation , accurate criticisms in the same article will amount to a " partial justification " which reduces the damages by reducing the value of the reputation . |
| 20 | Even where direct sunlight is received for much of the day , its heating effect is severely restricted by high winds and high humidity ( Green & Harding 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , very considerable experience of using groups for this kind of research shows that they do tend to produce very consistent results , even where different researchers cover the same problem . |
| 22 | Looked at from the ground , however , a rather different picture emerges , since it is clear that in many constituencies local issues were of greater importance , and even where national issues played a role , they were often distinctively shaped by peculiar local circumstances . |
| 23 | But even where local issues were paramount , Abercrombie , for one , could not resist the wider regional view . |
| 24 | Even where local products could be bought , so superior were English goods presumed to be that place of origin marks on goods of colonial manufacture were often falsified . |
| 25 | Even where post-merger firms did achieve productivity gains , they did little better than the productivity performance of the industry as a whole . |
| 26 | Even where vital commercial considerations explain a failure to consult , an employer may be held to have acted unfairly . |
| 27 | Furthermore , even where valid structures have been drilled , rocks of poor reservoir quality have been found but this my be due to the fact that no attempt has been made to select the structures with the best reservoir potential . |
| 28 | A bank is concerned that a loan can be serviced throughout its term , even although fundamental changes might take place in the political system of the country in which the borrower is resident . |
| 29 | In the last 15 years there has been an enormous increase in the volume of frozen chips being consumed , even although straight-cut chips for frying still account for more than half the chips bought . |
| 30 | The confusion of sex and sexuality , invoking the dread of any deviations from ‘ normal ’ heterosexuality , means that anti-sexist curricula may encounter more resistance even than anti-racist measures . |