Example sentences of "even if it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Whatever may have been said in the 1930s — even if it reflected current views then — cannot be correct today .
3 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 .
4 Most ( 70 per cent ) said they would prefer the shortest possible repayment period , even if it meant large instalment payments .
5 He threatened tough action to control council spending — even if it meant painful limits on Tory authorities .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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