Example sentences of "even [conj] they have be [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The patients may have died even if they had been admitted . ’ |
| 11 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Even if they have been killed in their sleep ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One reason for this is that older workers tend to lack certification for skill even if they have been acquired . |
| 16 | This is a very popular design , but unfortunately many varieties of fuchsia do not press well , turning brown and fading even before they have been removed from the press . |
| 17 | I thoroughly agree that hospital trusts are proving their worth , but the national health service in Northern Ireland is succeeding with trusts even before they have been established . |
| 18 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 19 | During the war and the revolution many old criminal families , living on the outskirts of the town or in bandit villages , left their influence behind even after they had been broken up . |
| 20 | This causes a reaction even after they have been entangled for the rabbits are inclined to bite at the net if they are left within it for too long . |
| 21 | It is this ability to regenerate that reduces many a garden enthusiast to tears when new flushes of dodder appear , as if from nowhere , on favourite hedges even after they have been pruned bare to get rid of it . |
| 22 | Worm casts have been shown to contain enzymes which continue to break down organic matter even after they have been excreted . |
| 23 | ‘ People do n't feel ashamed these days even when they have been caught out , ’ he suggests in a tone of disbelief . |
| 24 | It is greatly helped by a pragmatic government who , as it showed over the Rainbow Warrior affair , is quite prepared openly to back its security services even when they have been caught red-handed in a straightforward act of overt terrorism . |
| 25 | Even though they 've been squandering our money now . |
| 26 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 27 | Even though they had been confirmed … in writing they remained without support or corroboration and should not have been accepted … as sufficient for the purposes of an unqualified certificate . ’ |
| 28 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 29 | Although the last allegation is regarded with some scepticism by royal watchers , their speculation is heightened because the royal couple have barely been seen to exchange words or glances so far in the tour , even though they have been smiling and cheerful to those they have met . |
| 30 | Reports from Zimbabwe suggest that poachers are killing black rhinos even though they have been dehorned by the authorities to make them unattractive to hunters . |