Example sentences of "even if [pers pn] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Moreover , say Hackman and Oldham , even if we had this knowledge , it would still be a struggle to implement good job design principles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Naturally , even if you made sufficient headway with your phrase book to ask , they 'd never dream of telling you where they got it . |
| 7 | So ev even if you had six children , you 'd still allowed , still only get seven ninety five ? |
| 8 | ‘ Even if you had serious money problems you would n't come to me for help , would you ? ’ |
| 9 | Even if you had any grievance against your employee , it did n't stand . |
| 10 | Even if you had different views , you felt you should not impose those views on a significant minority . |
| 11 | So if you kept these same ratios same fractions even if you got ten pound or a hundred pounds or ten pence it would still look like that . |
| 12 | and er their gra , grade stipulation so even if you got three A's they can still refuse you . |
| 13 | Even if I thought strict liability for accidents wrong in principle , I would prefer that manufacturers of both washing machines and automobiles be held to that standard than that only one of them be . |
| 14 | He stopped then and after a pause said deliberately , ‘ Even if I held that point of view . ’ |
| 15 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
| 21 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But for Miss Mates the ‘ really truly ’ was the icing on the cake , even if she had more doubts about Sally-Anne 's stamina than her missing references . |