Example sentences of "[adj] even [subord] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This liability would be payable even if the venture failed , and all the capital were lost . |
| 2 | A piece of wall that is clean and firm and decent even when the paper has been stripped away from it ! ’ |
| 3 | In a recent well-publicised controversy a group of scientists claimed to have obtained results whereby water that once had a certain substance in it continued to behave as if the substance was present even after the substance had been removed ; as if the water retained a ‘ memory ’ of the substance . |
| 4 | Political intervention was advisable even when an applicant had the necessary financial strength to make a purchase , and if a gift of a commission was a greater compliment , permission to purchase was nonetheless gratefully accepted . |
| 5 | The explanation is that the flavour of the decision seems right even if the substance belies the flavour . |
| 6 | Under the Celuform scheme , the Company guarantees that faulty workmanship and materials is put right even if the installer has ceased trading . |
| 7 | Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites . |
| 8 | The way we touch , lift and support and the words which accompany actions all convey feelings to the person concerned : they may be experienced as hating or as loving even when the carer disclaims involvement . |
| 9 | The third chest has a slightly decayed , but permanent , Magic Lock on it , such that an attempt at mechanical lock-picking is only 50% likely to be successful even if the lock-picker makes his Dex test to pick the lock . |
| 10 | Short of a catastrophic breakdown , the chances of that happening were close to zero even before the race started , because Koch is determined to freeze out Conner and make the final an all America Foundation affair . |
| 11 | It so happened that two different remedies were sought in this case , but the decision on the issue of standing would have been the same even if the applicant had sought two declarations in different terms . |
| 12 | Rommetveit argues that the sentence is not necessarily self-contradictory even if the individual referred to by the two nominal expressions is the same individual . |
| 13 | We will convert Invalid Care Allowance into a Carer 's Benefit , increasing its value by an immediate 15% , indexing its future level to earnings and altering the entitlement rules to enable carers to combine caring with part-time or even full-time jobs and to ensure that people will still be eligible even if the caring starts after the carer reaches pensionable age . |
| 14 | A stodgy mix of colonial history , racial paranoia , wet hankie sentiment and rough-hewn myth-making , it laid the ground-work for the Western even before the frontier had advanced much beyond the west of New York State . |
| 15 | The asset value is a measure of security for the investor 's capital and may be relevant even where the shareholder does not have full control . |
| 16 | The CBI , whose recent reports on activity have added to the economic optimism , said the jobless total is unlikely to fall below 2.25 million even when the recovery becomes established . |
| 17 | This is true even when the coin gives the name of a king . |
| 18 | This is true even if the question has been prescribed by someone else ( perhaps in an examination ) ; in such cases , you reformulate the question in your first paragraph to demonstrate that you have understood it and can develop arguments from it . |
| 19 | Since the fund is kept strictly separate from the firm 's own assets , employees ' pensions should remain secure even if the firm ceases trading . |
| 20 | A total of 98 competitors weighed in from an entry of 126 even though the venue rose five feet above normal . |
| 21 | This is probably true of all human beings irrespective of culture and simply means that some degree of maturation of the ego must occur at around the age of seven even if the culture does not choose that moment for the installation of the superego . |