Example sentences of "even if [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns .
2 Even if one looks at the political structure of England one can see the division , and there is no doubt that political dominance was heavily weighted in favour of the South and the Midlands .
3 The curriculum is designed by teachers who unconsciously reflect the view that city life is best , even if they come from the rural areas .
4 These are included in relation only to limited classes of investments , which , however , cover not only money market investments but also debt investments ; it is therefore likely that futures contracts linked to debt securities are included , even if they fall outside the money market exemption ( because the transaction is too small or the debt securities have too long a maturity ) ; and ( 6 ) Countries , monetary authorities or certain supranational institutions .
5 Even if they got to the superleague then were repeatedly humiliated 6 nil I would be happy despite it making them yet more money .
6 Ecologically sound materials , such as natural fibres for fabrics , damp courses that breathe with the building and plant-based paints are increasingly in demand , even if they add to the cost .
7 Even if nothing came of the interviews , he could work for his father .
8 ‘ The hard part is still to come and I know I wo n't be given any big money to strengthen the squad , even if we stay at the top .
9 He added : ‘ My horse has got quite a high cruising speed and , even if we stay in the middle , he is more than capable of galloping his way back into the reckoning . ’
10 Even if we progress with the preparation of a scheme , THE success rate of a fully costed project only averages around 30% .
11 But even if we subscribe to the view that all genuine existential propositions are by nature " general " propositions , Frege 's theory is not entirely satisfactory .
12 But even if we respond to the money question alone , we can find a very real contribution .
13 But I will plan ahead , even if we crash into the Fourth Division .
14 The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators .
15 Even if we add in the £1.2bn spent on other administrative and clerical staff as a crude proxy measure of the managerial and administrative ‘ overhead ’ it amounts still to just under 6% of total NHS expenditure .
16 Even if we live in the countryside , we are likely to be alienated from the land and so must create the link afresh .
17 Indeed , as Paul Devereux once said ‘ Even If we live in the countryside , we 're still a load of townies ’ .
18 Even if he knows of the flaws Tzeentch cast into their making — which he almost certainly does — Drachenfels will still want the four Crystals of Power .
19 And even if you remain in the same location , you could still feel unsettled .
20 Low-voltage lights are a good idea as you wo n't get an electric shock from them , even if you cut through the cable when digging .
21 Even if you went to the police now , your story does n't shed any light on who did it .
22 Even if you belong to the getting-away-with-murder group , the time will come when you have to follow the rules precisely in order to maintain a speedy weight loss .
23 Even if you decide at the end of the day that you 're not bothered about the MIRAS tax relief , you want to see the back of this loan , keep your endowment running , because that 's where the real meat of the contract is .
24 The sharing of genes means that it is possible to sacrifice myself for my sister in such a way that , even if I die in the process , a proportion of my genes will survive in the next generation .
25 well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws
26 Unlike billiards , however , rather than a clean ‘ hit or miss ’ , the repulsion of the two positively charged nuclei causes a curvature in the ion 's path even if it passes to the side of the atom .
27 So it ca n't be the same as in churches even if it stays in the profit ?
28 Even if it gets to the stage where they are bound to win it , the bookies could just reduce the odds to something like 1–100 on .
29 Dunbar was not the only man who knew how to use archers , even if it went against the grain to leave too much to them .
30 Even if it came to the point .
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