Example sentences of "even [conj] every " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents know what their children are longing for and will give them what they want , even if every piggy bank in the house has to be broken open . |
| 2 | Even if every child of thirteen was learning algebra at eleven o'clock on a Wednesday , each child would be learning algebra for himself , with the help of his own class teacher . |
| 3 | Even if every other aspect of the paper were a shambles , the maintenance of that critical independence would be ( and is ) a source of justifiable pride . |
| 4 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , even if every minister were to trade in his BMW or Mercedes-Benz , it would do little to save the nearly bankrupt car and truck maker . |
| 6 | ‘ I read somewhere that even if every atom in the universe could be made to function as a flipflop switch in a binary computer , it still would n't be big enough to follow all the possible routes that the universe could create . ’ |
| 7 | And even if every star managed to lose enough mass to avoid collapse , what would happen if you added more mass to a white dwarf or neutron star to take it over the limit ? |
| 8 | Universal kerbside collection schemes could collect up to 5.5 million tonnes a year , almost a third of total household waste , but the cost would come to £196 per household a year , even if every single household took part . |
| 9 | However , as Nafis Sadik , head of UNFPA , pointed out : " Even if every woman only had 2.1 children [ the replacement level ] the population is already so large [ at just over 5.5 billion ] that we will be headed for 8.5 billion people no matter what " . |
| 10 | Think how many management consultants ( agents of organisational change ) there are — 1,763 firms at the last official count — and while you could say the internal cost in terms of management person hours and midnight oil bills dwarves the external consultant fee that goes with it , it does n't leave an awful lot for the average consultancy of Runnit Downe Foryewe & Howe , even if every firm blew an assignment each . |
| 11 | So to be concerned with fashion , to dress up and have fun with clothes , is to be stupid , even whilst every single day the fashion , advertising , and plastic surgery businesses ( not to mention slimming aids , diet books , fitness centres , cosmetics industry ) pump millions of pounds into all these things . |
| 12 | I nearly always start to make the chair at the back seat rail , for the simple reason that it is usually , but not always , the component that has right-angled joints , even when every other part of the chair is angled or curved . |
| 13 | Thus we could require as our fourth condition that our justification would remain even when every truth is added to our belief set , all at once . |
| 14 | ‘ There is no choice but to take an ugly and difficult decision to avert an even greater injustice , and those who cry halt and say there must be some other way , even though every conceivable way has been sought , would carry the responsibility for the even more catastrophic consequences of inaction , ’ he added . |
| 15 | The Kunsthalle , a space ( usually municipally funded ) in which artists can exhibit their works outside academic and museum constraints , is largely unknown in the United States , even though every small city in the country seems to have built a ‘ contemporary art space ’ over the last ten years . |
| 16 | no certificate of any kind has been received , even though every reasonable effort has been made to obtain it through the competent authorities of the State addressed . |
| 17 | The best she could hope for now was that they could form some sort of working relationship , even though every minute they spent together would be for her sweet agony . |