Example sentences of "[coord] even [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A demand will not , however , be set aside as irregular if the particulars of the debt as given are incorrect or even if the wrong form ( demand based on a debt not based upon a judgment ) is used , provided that the debtor understood perfectly well what debt was being demanded of him ( Re A Debtor ( No 190 of 1987 ) The Times , 21 May 1988 and Re A Debtor ( No 1 of 1978 ) The Times , 20 January 1989 ) . |
| 2 | It seems unsound , then , to dismiss the rule as a convenient summary of the theory underlying several specific torts which had existed long before 1868 , or even as the old cattle-trespass rule raised to a high power . |
| 3 | Even though Darlington is a small club , this is still a prolific area for producing talent , and even after the big clubs have had their pick , there is still enough for us . |
| 4 | The tradition of the words of the Lord was largely oral , and even after the canonical gospels were freely circulating , second-century citations of Jesus ' teaching often suggest oral rather than written transmission . |
| 5 | It ran right through the grapevine before the record company let on , and even before the first ads for the gig appeared in the Irish papers ( with MacGowan 's familiar mug still in the publicity shot ) , there was major consternation . |
| 6 | I still think the culture has a positive potential , being one of the most powerful forms of youth culture and entertainment since punk and even since the Sixties . |
| 7 | And even as the unlamented Official Secrets Act of 1911 groaned in its death throes in the late 1980s ( to be replaced by an even more constraining measure ) , officers about to retire in West Mercia were presented with an official force form and asked to sign a ‘ Declaration ’ under the Act . |
| 8 | As old age advances this can become a very disturbing experience and even where the medical problem is not grave the hospitalization itself can accelerate confusion and frailty among old people . |
| 9 | And even when the other ship tried to follow is into Flicker , so that both of is were in sub-light together for a millisecond , Posi had only glimpsed it . |
| 10 | And even when the same lender is involved , different types of business may carry different rates ( it is common , for example , for rates of charge to be higher on HP for older cars than on HP for new ones ) . |
| 11 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 12 | It 's true that surpluses were accumulated , and transferred in non-economic transactions , and peasants had non-economic reasons for acquiring cash : at the monastery of St-Riquier c.830 , the offerings that came in ( and even if the largest of these came from nobles , the majority , to judge from the beneficaries of miracles , were from peasants ) were worth 300 lb of silver per week . |
| 13 | ( And even if the political will did exist , he doubted whether the institutions which would have to translate it into collective action were strong enough to do so . ) |
| 14 | And even if the political tangle in South Africa is unravelled quickly there are many leading rugby people in New Zealand , including the new All Black coach , Laurie Mains , who suggest that now is not a good time for the resumption of New Zealand-South African contests — New Zealand have to recover a lot of the ground lost at the World Cup before they would feel comfortable of having a winning chance against South Africa . |
| 15 | ‘ And even if the good nuns did seduce them , they would have to break the seal on the pouch as well as my lord cardinal 's special seal on each letter , decode the cipher and re-seal them again . ’ |
| 16 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 17 | The DoH may have to redraft the guidelines , and even if the legal difficulties are overcome the guidelines may not appear for another two to three weeks — a frustrating delay for professionals at a time when social worker are increasingly being blamed by the public for failing to control young people in care . |
| 18 | If a ‘ keep out ’ sign annoys you , stop and think of the stalker and his family before you do anything silly , and even if the whole issue of land use and access in Scotland enrages you , remember the place for a protest is not on the hill , but in the ballot box . |
| 19 | On a 1780 base ( =100 ) the real-wage index was 86 in 1793 , and even if the 1801 and 1812 price extremes are excluded ( 55 and 53 ) the average real-wage index for the remaining war years is still only 77.7 compared with 91.2 for 1780 to 1792 . |
| 20 | I fancy , however , in future years , and even if the proposed line should now be hung up as long as the proposed act lasts , the neighbourhood may regret that they let the matter be arranged without any criticism from the locality from which the Act takes its name , for which there is now just time . |
| 21 | A long time in the past the Yek had been nomads , and even though the principal cities of the Khanate were constructed from stone , the interior decoration of many of the principal houses owed its origins to the heritage of the tent . |
| 22 | And even though the evolutionary history of man quite correctly discerned progress in certain important matters — notably science and technology — though paying no attention to others , it did not , and indeed could not , make ‘ backwardness ’ permanent and irreparable . |
| 23 | He guessed at once that his son had been talking to Yuan , and even though the casual disclosure of information had been prearranged , he regretted the unavoidability of the confrontation which was about to occur . |
| 24 | The Council denies their rent 's too high and even though the new owners have made the hut a cabbies ' shelter in name only at least Oxford 's most unusual historic building is once again back in use . |
| 25 | The Cornish are fortunate to be able to paint their regional discontents in the attractive colours of Celtic tradition , which makes them so much more visible , even though it leads some of them to reinvent a language not spoken for 200 years , and even though the only popular public tradition with genuine roots in the country is Wesleyan Methodism . |
| 26 | So , for example , the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board ( CICB ) is amenable to judicial review even though it was not set up by statute and even though the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme ( CICS ) , which it administers , is non-statutory . |
| 27 | And even though the same scientists were involved in that experimentation , Rohmer could not resist a kind of immature pride in the fact that his unit had more than the others . |
| 28 | And even though the little fellow stood stock still , his shadow heaved and twisted as some living creature writhing in unimaginable torment . |
| 29 | Traditionally , the centre-half , under the offside law as it then was , played chiefly as an attacker , but even before the offside law was changed in 1925 to increase goal-scoring chances , and thus bring about a need for stronger defence , he was becoming more a third defender . |
| 30 | Of course professional use is significantly more , but even than the actual period of continuous operation is deceptively low . |