Example sentences of "even [conj] [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 15 the US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills said in Washington that the USA had rejected EC proposals for " re-balancing " , which sought tariff increases on items such as oil seeds to offset cuts elsewhere , adding that the USA could " not tolerate " such an idea , which effectively allowed the re-imposition of tariffs , even where they had been negotiated away . |
| 2 | Moreover , even where it has been demonstrated that long tails are costly but are preferred by choosy females , resolving how such preferences have evolved is difficult , particularly if females gain no direct benefits from their choice of mating partners . |
| 3 | One could argue , then , that by July 1949 the battle lines had been drawn in Southeast Asia , and even that they had been drawn unilaterally , by the US . |
| 4 | Realism is radical because any purposive attempt to change the world depends on a conviction that it can be described , even that it has been described ; and it is the chosen task of realism to describe . |
| 5 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 6 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 7 | Always the money that had not arrived , always the arrears of pay causing disaffection , and even if they had been sent substantial tallies on regional treasuries or port taxation officers , still the endless complaint that the money simply was not there to meet the bills . |
| 8 | Assisted by a recent Supreme Court ruling that members of the last parliament were not immune from prosecution for corruption even if they had been re-elected , Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sir Julius Chan had launched a full investigation in late July into the financial dealings of the previous government . |
| 9 | Mosley 's later fascist ideas on government owed much to Lloyd George 's wartime reforms of the administrative structure , even if they had been devised in a democratic framework . |
| 10 | This last observation may mean that additions , repairs and restorations could be recognised even if they had been carried out with lacquer from the lacquer tree instead of imitations of it . |
| 11 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 12 | ‘ The patients may have died even if they had been admitted . ’ |
| 13 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 14 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if they have been killed in their sleep ? ’ |
| 16 | The sole trader or partner pays income tax under Schedule D ( subject to allowances ) on all profits , even if they have been reinvested in the enterprise . |
| 17 | One reason for this is that older workers tend to lack certification for skill even if they have been acquired . |
| 18 | I wished I could have felt any sort of advance enthusiasm , but I could n't have cared less if John had spent the week transforming the room into the Crystal Palace , or even if he 'd been laying everything waste with a meat-axe . |
| 19 | Even if he 'd been rushed straight to hospital , they might not have been able to save him . |
| 20 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 21 | However these two bases are distinct and it is clear from Harman J 's judgment that even if he had been dealing with an express confidential information clause in an employment agreement he would have declined to have followed Faccenda . |
| 22 | He had always banked on being good enough to play another Test match , even if he had been made to serve the full five-year ban . |
| 23 | They were held not liable , as the evidence established that even if he had been examined , he would have died before diagnosis and treatment could have been carried out . |
| 24 | Even if he had been gulped down by the City , Tunney should be making some difference , feeding in his own amendments . |
| 25 | From boyhood James had wanted to become a physician , but even if he had been taken seriously there would have been no money to cater for such an extravagant ambition . |
| 26 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 27 | Anyone who joins a bucket shop swiftly enough grasps what 's going on , even if he 's been lied to . |
| 28 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 29 | Even if you 've been turned down elsewhere . |
| 30 | Sandy said , ‘ We 'd better not be heading for your place , even if you 've been doing it up . |