Example sentences of "even if [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | why 's it , why they leaking if , even if they are flat roof , why are they leaking ? |
| 2 | Will people admit to having committed criminal offences , even if they are guaranteed confidentiality ? |
| 3 | A horse that is returned to the paddock after working may only visually check that its normal companions are there , even if they are some distance away , before starting to eat the grass . |
| 4 | And er happily we went along in that situation and I 've got to say this er I had shop stewards who even if they were new shop stewards coming into the committee , were n't long in developing the same train of thought as ourselves and , and you know we dealt with things in such a manner but er we were efficient just as efficient , you know , as our members were on the production line , and perhaps a little more efficient than the management in determining times . |
| 5 | So it was a husband 's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy . |
| 6 | Alex McLaggan and Mary have their own roof at Grandtully , even if it is next door to his father . |
| 7 | We have to establish contact with the kidnappers and try to exchange something , even if it is just information . |
| 8 | Even if it 's some idea like building a restaurant like a ship . |
| 9 | even if there is perfect symmetry in the utility function between antecedents and descendants and no uncertainty , there still may be constraints on the private transfer of income ( wealth ) among generations . |
| 10 | Although it is always dangerous to extrapolate from a sample , the findings of the evaluation give rise to cautious optimism that the basis of the new advanced courses system continues to be supported by most staff , even if there is understandable criticism of individual aspects of the implementation . |
| 11 | The considerable differences between infant sleep and children 's sleep are undeniable , even if there is some lack of unanimity about the precise relative amounts of active sleep , intermediate sleep and quiet sleep . |
| 12 | Since she is not to discuss the faults of the particular man involved , nor is there anything to be gained by arguing for the uninspiring Dusterandus , Leapor attempts to convince her friend that marriage per se is risky , even if there is some chance of a happy outcome : |
| 13 | 5.5 This conclusion will actually exclude the great majority of verbs ( or , more exactly , all normal uses of the great majority of verbs ) from appearing in construction with an adverbal adjective at all , with or without the claimed nuance ; either they will be related to their object in such a way that there is simply no need to mention any particular property of the latter entity , as in ( 30 ) ; or , even if there is some property of the object specially relevant to the notion introduced in the verb , that property does not belong to the object by virtue of the relationship between the verb and the object ; for instance , even if Angela in ( 31 ) resembles her cousin in that they are both dark , her cousin does not have that property because Angela resembles her , and even if the Prince admired his Chief Justice because of his disposition to clemency it is not the the Prince 's admiration that justifies the applicability of the property merciful . |
| 14 | Perhaps this is considered too expensive , but it is hard to believe that 240 doctors can be trained at no capital cost , even if there is head space at medical schools . |
| 15 | Conflicts of interest are particularly likely to arise in firms that are companies because , even if there is functional segregation within a company with different activities being carried out in different departments between which there are Chinese walls , the knowledge of one part of the company will be attributed to ( ie treated in law as known to ) all parts . |
| 16 | With some 15,500 outlets for their business , solicitors are likely to remain for some time the principal providers of legal services even if there is considerable expansion of alternatives to the use of solicitors for some legal work ( The Law Society , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | One advantage claimed for present spelling is that related words keep a similar appearance even if there are minor sound changes in , for example , divide , division ; anxious , anxiety . |
| 18 | As we have already seen , they are no protection against wind erosion , which can in any case be overcome by other means , and even if there are stock grazing on the fields a movable fence is more efficient , convenient and requires less maintenance . |
| 19 | All such principles are general and abstract and even if there was complete agreement as to the principle the problem of application to particular and concrete facts would remain . |
| 20 | Even if there was personal participation by all the citizens in the making of decisions and policies , the only situation in which it would even appear to be clear what was the will of the people would be a unanimous decision . |
| 21 | Or even if there was any plan at all . |
| 22 | Yet even if there were short-term cause to rejoice , the mandarins would be wrong to assume that the most effective way out of Japan 's current problems — slow growth , asset-price deflation and a troubled financial sector — is to indulge their strongest instinct : to re-regulate everything . |
| 23 | This argument is a weak one : there is no clear evidence that such phonetic differences exist , and even if there were such evidence , it would be easy to produce explanations for the differences that did not depend on phonemic analyses ( e.g. the position of the word boundary in ‘ watch apes ’ , ‘ what shapes ’ ) . |
| 24 | Even if there were some truth in such an argument it hardly justifies such an unacceptable form of activity . |