Example sentences of "even [subord] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | Even if one gets different results , they are still publishable without necessarily running into head-on confrontation with the earlier claims . |
3 | Even if one postulates continent-wide uplift to produce the conglomerate in such widely separated places , it is very difficult to explain why the source rock is also so remarkably similar from one end of Europe to the other . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The authors conclude that universities can have confidence in admitting carefully selected mature students even if they lack formal entry qualifications . |
6 | Social activities — Eg Annual dinners ( even if they have prominent Institute members or office holders as guest speaker ) |
7 | Doctors put the life expectancy of sufferers at about 40 years — even if they have daily injections of insulin . |
8 | They might , therefore , reasonably be expected to share characteristics that were also possessed by those common ancestors , even if they have unique characteristics as well . |
9 | Even if we take patristic Christology , in which it is said that God in Christ took on humanity in which we all participate , it is still the case that that human nature was the human nature of a male human being . |
10 | Even if we abandon moral judgment in such cases , the balance of advantage must still be carefully and impartially weighed . |
11 | Of all possible speculations about the origin of life , most run foul of the laws of chemistry and can be ruled out , even if we make full use of our statistical fall-back argument about numbers of planets . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Note 1.11.5 Even if we count repeated roots according to their multiplicities ( and it is usual to ) the theorem still holds . |
14 | a man of trained hand , eye , and brain ; disciplined and good mannered ; of sound muscle and fully developed lungs ; with a general knowledge of common tools and simple machines ; able to read a plan and make a drawing to scale ; ready to undertake any kind of unspecialised work , ; and competent , even if he does unskilled work , to do it ‘ with his head ’ . |
15 | And how can a farm worker strike against an employer whom he knows to be , more often than not these days , a solicitous and considerate person , even if he pays low wages ? |
16 | Naturally , even if you made sufficient headway with your phrase book to ask , they 'd never dream of telling you where they got it . |
17 | ‘ You certainly seem to be doing well — even if you make foul smells in the process . ’ |
18 | ‘ Even if you had serious money problems you would n't come to me for help , would you ? ’ |
19 | Even if you had different views , you felt you should not impose those views on a significant minority . |
20 | However even if you get maximum assistance with the Poll Tax , you will still have to pay a fifth of your Poll tax bill . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today . |
24 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
25 | The best rock attempts to make society better , even if it takes gross self-laceration to get to that point … |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments . |
28 | He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |