Example sentences of "even if [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even if they survive those patients undergoing suffocation are suffering unacceptable and repeated abuse . |
| 4 | The authors conclude that universities can have confidence in admitting carefully selected mature students even if they lack formal entry qualifications . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Social activities — Eg Annual dinners ( even if they have prominent Institute members or office holders as guest speaker ) |
| 7 | Doctors put the life expectancy of sufferers at about 40 years — even if they have daily injections of insulin . |
| 8 | They might , therefore , reasonably be expected to share characteristics that were also possessed by those common ancestors , even if they have unique characteristics as well . |
| 9 | Even if we raise twenty pounds a performance for it . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Even if we abandon moral judgment in such cases , the balance of advantage must still be carefully and impartially weighed . |
| 13 | And even if we succeed this time , the one who inherits his mantle many succeed the next . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 16 | Moreover , say Hackman and Oldham , even if we had this knowledge , it would still be a struggle to implement good job design principles . |
| 17 | Note 1.11.5 Even if we count repeated roots according to their multiplicities ( and it is usual to ) the theorem still holds . |
| 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 encourage some doctors to specialise in medical education , most of the day to day teaching will remain the domain of jobbing doctors . |
| 20 | Even if we have another homicide on our hands this is not the scene of the crime . |
| 21 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 22 | even if we see each other every week we still have loads to talk about . |
| 23 | ‘ Many of us truly want to believe that money-making schemes are genuine , even if we harbour some doubts . ’ |
| 24 | But , even if we accept these directions as a legitimate part of the A text , what Faustus 's damnation consists of is not clear . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | The hunter is thus motivated primarily by self-interest and pragmatism — the fear of possible retribution — even if he expresses these motives in religious and moral terms . |
| 30 | 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 . |