Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that even [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 2 | I assumed that even if the words were n't actually pronounced , one sensed it . |
| 3 | It did cross my mind that she might actually get across the damn thing and hit land before the wind dropped , but I reckoned that even if that happened I had done my best , and honour was satisfied . |
| 4 | And I suspect that even if you replace these people in positions of power you ca n't replace human nature . |
| 5 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply . |
| 6 | We seldom discussed politics but I knew that even though they belonged officially to a Fascist organization their sentiments were more inclined to the local brand of Communism . |
| 7 | I argue that even if only one process were involved , the outcome would depend on conditions and , since conditions vary , so must the behavioural outcome . |
| 8 | If you do that , then I think that even though your own values are bound to be in it a bit , they wo n't be in it in a way that makes the work useless or makes it appear hopefully prejudiced to someone else . |
| 9 | I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home . |
| 10 | Perhaps because I said that even if I returned I should now be shot for desertion . |
| 11 | I notice that even when you are simply listening to music on tape or watching it on the TV monitor when you are editing you are still breathing with the music even though you are not conducting it . |
| 12 | Which means that even if we do have the phetam on board , our enemies do n't know where we 're going . |
| 13 | The intercept is the expected return on the security which implies that even if the return on this factor was zero ( as in the case of the other three ) , the actual return would be equal to that expected , there have been no deviations in reality from what had been expected . |
| 14 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 15 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 16 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
| 17 | No , lust was n't ugly ; many of her friends ' affairs and marriages were founded on mutual lust and a few had stayed that way , neither foundering nor developing into something richer and more complex ; but for her it could never be enough , even in the context of a mere beginning , and , after the depressing end of the relationship in Wellington , she knew that even if it had been allied to liking or affection , it still would n't have been enough . |
| 18 | and the other one was erm a mother of two and she said that even when she was younger she was always overweight and she could never sort of go out with anybody nice and she just settled for anybody sort of thing , I felt sorry for her husband , mind you saying this like , cos he looked a bit thick and er |
| 19 | erm what I was putting to you was , do you , do you say that even if it would as a matter of pure English law , it is overridden by community law erm , er , er at least er , at least for the time being |
| 20 | We conclude that even though the algebraic and denotational semantics characterises exactly the same equivalence over occam , they are in some sense complementary . |
| 21 | getting down to the project re resource sheets er Jack w we felt that even though our bid was fairly low , even a adjusted for a full calculation . |
| 22 | You gave me to understand that even if you had not had your accident you would almost certainly not have come to France to see him at the end . ’ |
| 23 | The unions are concerned because they fear that even if the in-house bids for the Civil Service work are successful , jobs could still be lost . |
| 24 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 25 | I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night . |
| 26 | Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter . |
| 27 | ‘ They know that even if a forward gets past them , the striker is faced with this massive Dane racing out to confront him . |
| 28 | They argue that even if male clerical workers can not be considered proletarian because of their upward mobility , this is not true of female clerks . |
| 29 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 30 | He argued that even if wages and prices were flexible , aggregate demand would not necessarily be sufficient to ensure full employment . |