Example sentences of "[pron] even [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pensioner couple , who even after the uprating will still be £25 a week worse off , will remember him . |
| 2 | Having fixed these ‘ volume ’ targets at the beginning of its period of office , a government would seek to hold to them even if the economy expanded faster or more slowly than expected , or if prices or wages rose . |
| 3 | I think in the case of members of staff , the university might well want to say certain sorts of behaviour are inappropriate and we do n't countenance them even if the person involved in the end thinks she 's prepared to put up with it , or he 's prepared to put up with it . |
| 4 | Moreover these milestones correspond broadly with others in the course of sensory-motor development , being broadly in step with them even when the whole process is slowed down , as in the cases of mental retardation . |
| 5 | The first group consists of what is sometimes known as the exceptions to the rule nemo dat quod non habet whereby a bona fide purchaser of goods from A commits no conversion but actually obtains a good title to them even though the goods really belonged to B and B never intended to allow A to sell them . |
| 6 | Mark , 26 , said : ‘ A woman was walking along like a zombie clinging to the little girl , but doing nothing even though the girl was completely engulfed in flames and sobbing . |
| 7 | Ruddock 's transfer request was slapped in last Friday and Sugar is ready to sell him even though the £2 million-rated player was a huge success in his first season back at Spurs . |
| 8 | So the sudden lightning-spark of indigo that jumped from him even as the thought crystallized in his head struck Jezrael with an intensity that shook her . |
| 9 | I tasted the blessed rain on my lips , drinking it even while the People complained . |
| 10 | They believe it even though the evidence is suspect , such is the charmed life of the child . |
| 11 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 12 | However , there is little doubt that people are not yet accustomed to the idea of paying fees and are tempted to avoid it even when the final result may be better . |
| 13 | Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy . |
| 14 | There was , however , another crucial difference between Darwin 's position and that of his contemporaries : he believed that , when members of a species were transported to a new location , they might sometimes establish themselves even if the conditions were not identical to those of the homeland , in which case the isolated population would adapt to the new environment and eventually be transformed into a distinct species . |
| 15 | It 's ours even before the National Health Service was brought in . |
| 16 | But as a political shibboleth it was raised to all-powerful heights and was used as a battering-ram to silence any suggestion by anybody that one might ever spend more on anything even if the aim of spending more immediately was to spend less later . |
| 17 | At this distance I hardly think we 'd trigger anything even if the bomb was activated , but no chances . |