Example sentences of "even [conj] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even if they do not make the play-offs , the Chiefs have achieved a degree of respectability that has eluded them in past seasons . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) Many archives have compiled reference " packs " for popular topics which can be extremely useful , even if they do not cover every need . |
| 3 | Species , then , are real , even if they do not represent different stable states of matter . |
| 4 | Such theories at least attempt to cope with the reality of the female presence , even if they do not do so accurately . |
| 5 | With the monopolistic nature of the industry ( all works are unique ; the Beatles are no substitute for Bach , or the Beastie Boys ) , market segmentation is what shields record companies from price competition , even if they do not form a cartel . |
| 6 | Even if they do not damage people immediately , they could alter DNA and increase the risk of cancer . |
| 7 | The privatisations also help , even if they do not go far enough . |
| 8 | They act , in Scott 's phrase ( 1982 , p. 125 ) , as ‘ internal capitalists ’ ; even if they do not hold major shareholdings their rewards are closely tied to company profitability . |
| 9 | So do strong aggressive animals which are well able to protect their babies even if they do not deposit them in a den deep underground . |
| 10 | The benefits do not have to be of a strictly pecuniary kind ; individuals may enjoy the status of high office , even if they do not benefit financially from it , and advertising is a method of purchasing the status . |
| 11 | Children who have a good general understanding of sound-symbol relationship , even if they do not spell well at the moment , are , as Margaret Peters says , " well on their way " to becoming good spellers . |
| 12 | The Electricity Consumers ' Council ( ECC ) agrees that savings ‘ could be significant ’ even if they do not reach the £1000 million mark . |
| 13 | The blueprint detective story to be successful with its readers , even if they do not realise what is being done with them , must have as much of " story " in it as of " detective " ; even in that most puzzle-oriented sub-genre , the locked-room mystery . |
| 14 | By the " permanence " of true-kin relationships in both models I refer to the fact that if two individuals consider themselves to be true kinsmen their kinship will persist in latent form even if they do not interact with one another at all for years on end . |
| 15 | Some elite theorists believe that the masses have repressed interests even if they do not express them in observable forums . |
| 16 | After all , young people are still part of the Church even if they do not attend Mass . |
| 17 | Anyone can make a planning application on any land even if they do not own the land . |
| 18 | Even if they do not have to hide , they will be like lieutenants to us now — ‘ |
| 19 | Even if they do not have thrush symptoms at the time , there is likely to be a reservoir of Candida in the vagina . |
| 20 | Even if they do not cut effective costs , they will bring about changes in patterns of demand for services . |
| 21 | Even if they do not yield any positive evidence of primordial black holes , they will be very valuable . |
| 22 | Why will aluminium producers agree to pay for electricity even if they do not use it ? |
| 23 | On the other hand , I know that at least some people must have read it because each day I get a pile of letters about my book , many asking questions or making detailed comments that indicate that they have read it , even if they do not understand all of it . |
| 24 | Now , individual workers will be able to leave the state scheme even if they do not belong to a recognized scheme . |
| 25 | Recent research by McGill University 's Henry Mintzberg and the London Business School 's Angela Dumas has shown that a lot of people in any large company are active in design , even if they do not know it . |
| 26 | Even if they did not do anything . |
| 27 | Sociologists who lend their names or their work to a particular social policy are engaging in a political act ; they can not escape by saying that the use of their work to justify a particular social policy ( even if they did not advocate that policy ) is not their concern . |
| 28 | Even if they did not speculate , many could raise warrant bonds at yields of 3–5% and put the money in bank deposits at higher rates . |
| 29 | It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , even if they did not get it wrong , their discomfiture is a matter of concern for the whole market research industry , of which political opinion polling accounts for a small but very visible part of an estimated UK turnover of more than £300 million . |