Example sentences of "that even [subord] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill . |
| 2 | ‘ I read somewhere that even if every atom in the universe could be made to function as a flipflop switch in a binary computer , it still would n't be big enough to follow all the possible routes that the universe could create . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed Pascal 's commitment to the outsider would seem to entail that even if the possibility of God 's existence were extremely small , the choice of belief should be made . |
| 4 | The intercept is the expected return on the security which implies that even if the return on this factor was zero ( as in the case of the other three ) , the actual return would be equal to that expected , there have been no deviations in reality from what had been expected . |
| 5 | I would therefore argue that even if the discrepancy between girls ' and boys ' performance at the top levels of achievement in mathematics was entirely due to differences in ability ( which I do not believe , but nevertheless should stay as a possible hypothesis ) , there is a strong case for saying that we should act to try to alter the situation . |
| 6 | A blaster 's laser could cut through some metals , but Ace had a nasty feeling that even if the material above her proved susceptible , she might expend her entire powerpack on it without much effect . |
| 7 | P. A. Zaionchkovskii calculated for the period June 1861 to December 1863 that even if the number of incidents in which troops were used against peasants is doubled or tripled ( which may be a legitimate procedure in view of the possibility of under-reporting ) , no more than 4 per cent of the places where peasants lived were affected . |
| 8 | At Rio 's federal university , scientists says that even if the use of mercury ceased , the danger remain . |
| 9 | Their presence polluted to the extent that even if the shadow of an untouchable fell across the food of a Brahmin it would render it unclean . |
| 10 | However it should be recalled that even if an obligation of confidence is held to exist the grant of an injunction is in the discretion of the court . |
| 11 | The court in Malone also held , however , that even if an action in confidence does apply to telephone conversations , in this case the circumstances would be governed by Gartside v. Outram , where it was held that ‘ there is no confidence in the disclosure of an iniquity ’ , observations subsequently explained by Lord Denning as merely an instance of just cause or excuse for breaking a confidence . |
| 12 | If anything the expensive fiasco at Three Mile Island ( this issue , p 79 ) could be interpreted as showing that even when a bunch of incompetents is let loose on a nuclear power station and does its best to help an accident along , the chances of harming the public are slim . |
| 13 | I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains : |
| 14 | A second lesson is that even when the computerization of a research project fails because of the intractability of a particular set of data , it can be an intellectually instructive task to try , and fail , to prepare the data in a formalized manner . |
| 15 | Moreover , it has been established for centuries that even where the threat of violence is less than this , consent will be negatived . |