Example sentences of "[adj] even if [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I should add that the outcome would have been no different even if the Act of 1985 had applied since Mr. Thomas concedes the time when the cause of action arises must be the same under both Acts . |
2 | The sharper increase in relief expenditure once the boom of the early 1790s gave way to the food crises of the mid 1790s , with only brief respite before the hyper-crisis of 1800 – 1 , is unmistakable even if the wartime inflation from 1793 is taken account of . |
3 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
4 | It is probably unnecessary to specify the president , as the relevant institution 's procedures will be similar even if the president is not specified . |
5 | If the Secretary of State has considered a proposed merger and made a decision as to clearance or otherwise in respect of it a fee will also be payable even if no application for clearance has been made . |
6 | This liability would be payable even if the venture failed , and all the capital were lost . |
7 | The net rate of interest payable to you remains fixed even if the level of composite rate tax changes during th course of the Bond . |
8 | The moral code remained an ideal even if the performance was inferior , and for tribes and clans the aspiration was what counted : those who fought , sacrificed and died together became brothers , their leaders fathers . |
9 | With Sea Wolf fore and aft , and the Sea-Guard anti-missile gun system , on port and starboard , the makers claim that a ship could have a 9 to I chance of remaining undamaged even if the missiles were pre-programmed to be ‘ evasive ’ . |
10 | The security search fee was non-returnable even if a loan was not granted , and increased by a shilling for every mile the searcher had to go beyond two miles . |
11 | Indeed , one of the lay witnesses said that he considered a breach of the peace unlikely even if the police had not been there . |
12 | The court said obiter that the accused would have been guilty even if the police had shot dead an innocent bystander , though the actual victim was innocent too . |
13 | Under the Celuform scheme , the Company guarantees that faulty workmanship and materials is put right even if the installer has ceased trading . |
14 | The explanation is that the flavour of the decision seems right even if the substance belies the flavour . |
15 | In general even if the price of a holiday goes up extortionately , the number of people going overseas tends to stay about the same . |
16 | The third chest has a slightly decayed , but permanent , Magic Lock on it , such that an attempt at mechanical lock-picking is only 50% likely to be successful even if the lock-picker makes his Dex test to pick the lock . |
17 | But I believe the figure should be erm a few thousand below erm the forty one thousand and to that extent I would agree with you that in practical terms erm it 's going to be very difficult even if the figure is twenty five , twenty six thousand , to stick to thirty one . |
18 | Rommetveit argues that the sentence is not necessarily self-contradictory even if the individual referred to by the two nominal expressions is the same individual . |
19 | Conversely , if the intermediary is a market counterparty ( see page 29 below ) , the intermediary rules are irrelevant even if the client is identified ; the intermediary is not a customer and therefore the rules do not apply . |
20 | We will convert Invalid Care Allowance into a Carer 's Benefit , increasing its value by an immediate 15% , indexing its future level to earnings and altering the entitlement rules to enable carers to combine caring with part-time or even full-time jobs and to ensure that people will still be eligible even if the caring starts after the carer reaches pensionable age . |
21 | If the purpose is to interrupt an apparent contract and the secondary action would be likely to achieve that purpose , then the secondary action should be legitimate even if no such contract exists in fact . |
22 | Thus , if the consecutive-spill method of handling synonyms has been used , a search may still be necessary even if no home record is detected when the home position is searched . |
23 | Social workers defined their main purpose when investigating referrals of alleged sexual abuse as the evaluation of child care risk ; judgement about children 's well-being was justifiable and necessary even if the reasons which motivated referral were unproven or no longer relevant . |
24 | A starfish can regrow all its arms if necessary even if the mutilation is severe . |
25 | This may be necessary even if the industry is situated many miles from the site . |
26 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
27 | ( This of course remains true even if the whole structure is then subjected within a wider framework to negation , or presented as being hypothetical . ) |
28 | This is true even if the question has been prescribed by someone else ( perhaps in an examination ) ; in such cases , you reformulate the question in your first paragraph to demonstrate that you have understood it and can develop arguments from it . |
29 | When paths are short , every rule on the path will gain an improved weight after just a few searches , and for a good rule , the gain in weight will be significant even if the rule is first on the path . |
30 | Since the fund is kept strictly separate from the firm 's own assets , employees ' pensions should remain secure even if the firm ceases trading . |