Example sentences of "even [conj] it [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 2 | Answer two : a crime novel may still be crime fiction , as opposed to pure fiction , even if it abandons altogether that prime staple of blueprint detective fiction , the murder puzzle . |
| 3 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 4 | If they know where to find a powerful enemy this is where they will go , even if it means almost certain — or , indeed , certain — death ! |
| 5 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
| 6 | The organizers are often faced with the dilemma of whether they should adopt an all-out militant campaign with the risk that in the end all will be lost and nothing gained in spite of the expenditure of a great deal of energy , time and sometimes money ; or come to some agreement with the authorities whereby something can be gained , even though it falls far short of the full objectives of the group and will not significantly affect the position of , and relationships between , vested interests . |
| 7 | The Napoleonic model in France , even though it survived virtually unaltered for over a century and a half , eventually had to yield to demands for a wider measure of regional self-government , and over the past years schemes of regional devolution have been instituted . |
| 8 | But , even though it has about half the population of a city like Leeds , the people there speak a total of three languages ! |