Example sentences of "even [subord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years .
2 Even if it meets these conditions , it will not be entitled to the concessions unless , at no time during the year , has it , or any member of the group of which it is a member , been a public company , a banking or insurance company or an authorised person under the Financial Services Acts and , if it is a parent company , unless the group qualifies as a small or medium-sized group .
3 The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover .
4 The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government .
5 It never happens completely spontaneously , even if it feels that way .
6 Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today .
7 Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there .
8 He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better .
9 The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’
10 The best rock attempts to make society better , even if it takes gross self-laceration to get to that point …
11 So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done .
12 The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows .
13 Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments .
14 He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities .
15 He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself .
16 Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style .
17 Firstly that Britain would never end immigration altogether ( even if it ended black immigration ) , because if it did so the economy might not survive its periodic labour shortages .
18 Do it right now , even if it interrupts another activity .
19 They might see it as better to take-over their main supplier , even if it means that company losing some existing orders from competing manufacturers of food products ; * buyers may deliberately seek international suppliers , so as to maintain their choice and retain some degree of control over the prices and terms of supply .
20 When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ .
21 When both taxes and public spending seemed out of control at the end of the Callaghan era , the proportion of voters telling Gallup that ‘ taxes should be cut even if it means some reduction in government services such as health , education and welfare ’ was exactly the same as the proportion saying ‘ government services such as health , education and welfare should be extended even if it means some increase in taxes ’ .
22 Even when it has that opportunity , because directions have to be sought , it is clear , as we have seen above from Sullivan v West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive , that it has no power to exclude such evidence at the interlocutory stage other than to limit the number of witnesses .
23 Further , British Rail , for example , would be distinguished from a Type B non-profit , even though it receives substantial capital and revenue grants from the Government .
24 The present situation , therefore , even though it allows some fudging of extraordinary items , must be far from perfect from Mr Damant 's point of view .
25 Carbon fibre tubes have cured much of this ; but the fourth bridle line is used on larger sport kites even though it requires accurate adjustment to balance with the other lines .
26 In fact , to refuse a parent 's request would not be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights , even though it requires such convictions to be upheld .
27 Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible .
28 Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back .
29 So long as there is a full right of appeal against a refusal of leave — a right which the present Government sought , at one stage , to abolish — this handicap is acceptable , even though it places public authorities in a more privileged position than the ordinary litigant .
30 Until quite recently , meat from lambs under two years old was considered pale and tasteless so mutton ( a darker meat ) was preferred , even though it required slower cooking .
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