Example sentences of "[conj] even [subord] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room in which they were sitting underwent the curious shrinking process to which it was subject whenever he was reminded of Wyvis Hall or his Uncle Hilbert or even if the county of Suffolk were mentioned . |
| 2 | Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill . |
| 3 | Indeed Pascal 's commitment to the outsider would seem to entail that even if the possibility of God 's existence were extremely small , the choice of belief should be made . |
| 4 | P. A. Zaionchkovskii calculated for the period June 1861 to December 1863 that even if the number of incidents in which troops were used against peasants is doubled or tripled ( which may be a legitimate procedure in view of the possibility of under-reporting ) , no more than 4 per cent of the places where peasants lived were affected . |
| 5 | At Rio 's federal university , scientists says that even if the use of mercury ceased , the danger remain . |
| 6 | Their presence polluted to the extent that even if the shadow of an untouchable fell across the food of a Brahmin it would render it unclean . |
| 7 | However it should be recalled that even if an obligation of confidence is held to exist the grant of an injunction is in the discretion of the court . |
| 8 | If anything the expensive fiasco at Three Mile Island ( this issue , p 79 ) could be interpreted as showing that even when a bunch of incompetents is let loose on a nuclear power station and does its best to help an accident along , the chances of harming the public are slim . |
| 9 | I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains : |
| 10 | A second lesson is that even when the computerization of a research project fails because of the intractability of a particular set of data , it can be an intellectually instructive task to try , and fail , to prepare the data in a formalized manner . |
| 11 | Moreover , it has been established for centuries that even where the threat of violence is less than this , consent will be negatived . |
| 12 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 13 | And even if the Prince of Gwynedd should send an army to set him free , how were they to get him out of that impregnable hold ? |
| 14 | Thus although items from the second half of the 20th Century did appear to suffer from less serious deterioration than those from its first half ( with no post-1950 material being considered ‘ Fragile ’ ) , of all defective 20th Century publications noted , 7% were ‘ Fragile ’ , whereas the comparable figure for 19th Century publications was only 2% , and even if the proportion of defective items placed in the category of least deterioration — ‘ Poor ’ — was smaller for 19th Century items than for those of the 20th Century ( 76% as opposed to 80% ) , the difference was extremely slight . |
| 15 | Under the old system , it was possible , if a shortage of any one part occurred , to complete a large number of bodies up to the point at which this particular part was required , and even if the whole of the body shop floor eventually became taken up by partially built bodies , it was still possible to keep the body makers employed in splicing bottom sides and cantrails and fitting the pillars in position alongside the partially erected bodies . |
| 16 | It may be too that in the lower regions of society women were freer to find at least part-time employment : the distaff provided occupation for almost all , and even if the invention of the spinning wheel may have reduced the opportunities for some , it enormously increased those of others . |
| 17 | Even if a band that I liked did this , I 'm sure that it would not make me gay ( And even if the power of rock introduced you to the delights of homosexuality , who cares , eh ? |
| 18 | Surely , she mused , it had n't been raining long enough for the water levels to rise that far , and even though the middle of the week had proved consistently wet she felt confident she would arrive at the cottage long before the possibility became a reality . |
| 19 | But even if the majority of Asian states recognise a link between the political aspirations of non-alignment and the broader goals of the revived Soviet ‘ pan-Asian security ’ scheme they are unlikely to permit themselves to become drawn into a new structure of strategic accords in Asia presided over by Moscow which could enable the USSR to press for more direct relations of military alignment in the future . |
| 20 | But even if the question of necessity is ruled out , the notion that events in outer space influence Earth and its atmosphere , as well as the nature and distribution of animal life , is now a substantive truth . |
| 21 | But even if the role of Jeremiah suited him , there were always others he could adopt . |
| 22 | Because even if the element of confidentiality in the documents is entirely lost , the rule nevertheless clearly caters to other considerations : it expressly empowers the court ‘ for special reasons ’ to order the undertaking to continue . |