Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 More than three-quarters of those who are currently in post , even where they receive some remuneration , are amateurs in status , and in many cases in training as well , The extent and quality of their musical education is therefore extremely varied .
2 On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land .
3 Even where you have more flexibility , such as constituency campaigning by local candidates , you may still need to choose your audiences and visitors carefully .
4 Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies .
5 Even if one postulates continent-wide uplift to produce the conglomerate in such widely separated places , it is very difficult to explain why the source rock is also so remarkably similar from one end of Europe to the other .
6 Even if one accepts this view of the social role of a doctrine of justice , and gives it the priority Rawls assigns to it , his conclusions are not supported by his arguments for at least three reasons .
7 We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes .
8 There will be at least two of them , but even if they know each other they wo n't know anybody else except the one man who took them on and will eventually pay them .
9 The authors conclude that universities can have confidence in admitting carefully selected mature students even if they lack formal entry qualifications .
10 On 28 February Sjahrir resigned from the premiership : but Sukarno and he needed each other , even if they suspected each other : on 2 March he was back as Premier .
11 Social activities — Eg Annual dinners ( even if they have prominent Institute members or office holders as guest speaker )
12 even If we lose 10,000 brain cells a day from the time we are born , we have started with so many that the total number lost by the age of 60 would be less than 3 Per cent . ’
13 Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being .
14 Even if we abandon moral judgment in such cases , the balance of advantage must still be carefully and impartially weighed .
15 And even if we succeed this time , the one who inherits his mantle many succeed the next .
16 Of all possible speculations about the origin of life , most run foul of the laws of chemistry and can be ruled out , even if we make full use of our statistical fall-back argument about numbers of planets .
17 Moreover , say Hackman and Oldham , even if we had this knowledge , it would still be a struggle to implement good job design principles .
18 Even if we found one example that we could n't explain , we should hesitate to draw any grandiose conclusions from the fact of our own inability .
19 Even if we have another homicide on our hands this is not the scene of the crime .
20 even if we see each other every week we still have loads to talk about .
21 So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives .
22 But even if we agree this order tonight none of those issues will actually be clearly resolved er , there is a temptation and I regret that the honourable member for Southend succumbed to this , there 's a temptation to blem blame the French and the French government for this present state of uncertainty .
23 Even if we adjust this figure downwards to say 20 per cent for the pre-1914 period , this still represents quite a large number of women ( 160 out of 800 ) who were in the trade for life , which usually meant until well over 60 .
24 a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ .
25 So Mr MacGregor 's hard work may yet come to grief , even if he sorts that problem out there 's another obstacle to privatization running smoothly , many on the railways think the private sector will need a generous subsidy before they 'd be interested , if their not attracted the state will have to spend more to make the new structure work , a lot more .
26 If anyone does , even if you know that person , tell a grown-up you trust .
27 Nothing in between you do n't have to revise , even if you know next week I may I do n't know , I may ask you to get on with unit seven .
28 Naturally , even if you made sufficient headway with your phrase book to ask , they 'd never dream of telling you where they got it .
29 Even if you had serious money problems you would n't come to me for help , would you ? ’
30 Even if you had any grievance against your employee , it did n't stand .
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