Example sentences of "even [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And remember , Roger , the thread had been removed , the fuse destroys itself , and people coming in and out of the room , once the bed was on fire , would scarcely think it suspicious even if they saw the odd burn mark on the floor . |
| 2 | Both mothers could take legal action against the hospital even if they have the correct child . |
| 3 | Second , households with different compositions will have different patterns of demand , even if they have the same income . |
| 4 | International prop PHILIPPE GIMBERT from Beglès-Bordeaux , a club which had acquired an unsavoury reputation even before they won the French Championship , has been fined FF8,000 ( about £850 ) for damages resulting from a punch in a club match against Rodez in December 1990 . |
| 5 | Even when they make the right choice , they do n't let the choice go through . |
| 6 | Sorge did n't stir , even when they mentioned the gruesome spectacle of Trimmler 's arms folded in the sign of a swastika . |
| 7 | The second limitation is that it is only occam processes that may be transformed : the laws do not apply to guarded processes or conditionals , even when they have the same syntax as processes . |
| 8 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 9 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 10 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 11 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 12 | But even though they made the ideal start yesterday , taking a third minute lead through David McAnulty , they had no answer to Holywood 's class . |
| 13 | Their movements must , therefore , have literal implications even though they use the flowing romantic style originated by Taglioni and Perrot in La Sylphide and Giselle . |
| 14 | Australia and New Zealand have a special problem with ‘ corked ’ corks , even though they buy the best quality , because the moulds flourish in the warm , damp conditions of the sea voyage from Europe . |
| 15 | ‘ Western financial institutions operate a divide and rule policy : they strike sweetheart deals with individual governments which benefit Third World elites even though they harm the poor . |
| 16 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |