Example sentences of "even [conj] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 2 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 3 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
| 7 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 8 | I therefore reject the argument on behalf of the appellants in this case , that the Home Secretary is obliged to follow the judges ' views as to the requirements of retribution and deterrence in mandatory life sentence cases , even though it allowed some exceptions . |