Example sentences of "even [subord] they [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than three-quarters of those who are currently in post , even where they receive some remuneration , are amateurs in status , and in many cases in training as well , The extent and quality of their musical education is therefore extremely varied . |
| 2 | On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land . |
| 3 | Even if they had political or ideological grounds for doing so , the heat and publicity of the contest , the expectations of fellow-tribesmen and of the opposing side , and the subsequent social sanctions , would indeed have made it difficult to cross from one end of the pitch to the other in the middle of the ballot . |
| 4 | We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes . |
| 5 | A second round of voting , in constituencies which had not been able to complete their quota of candidates , was announced for May 8 ; in this round , the candidates with most votes would be declared elected , even if they received less than the 30 per cent required for election in the first round . |
| 6 | I have heard that even if they lose 15 per cent of the money coming in at the moment , some of them could fold . |
| 7 | After all , we thought ( quite irrationally and knowing next to nothing about the Germans ) , even if they met two young girls cycling in the countryside , they would never suspect us of taking food and clothing to the English . |
| 8 | It is usually argued that fixed capital increasing projects , even if they cause local and short-term unemployment , actually increase total employment through permitting significant increases in output . |
| 9 | Many clinicians are aware of this disadvantage even if they know little else about the technique and this contributes to clinical scepticism about its potential value as a diagnostic test . |
| 10 | There will be at least two of them , but even if they know each other they wo n't know anybody else except the one man who took them on and will eventually pay them . |
| 11 | Even if they survive those patients undergoing suffocation are suffering unacceptable and repeated abuse . |
| 12 | The authors conclude that universities can have confidence in admitting carefully selected mature students even if they lack formal entry qualifications . |
| 13 | Ask them to be as specific as possible , — and not hold back on any areas , even if they seem embarrassing . |
| 14 | The facts that you are asked to record — the number or name of the examination , the number of the seat that you occupy , your address and so on — should all be recorded carefully and completely , even if they seem unnecessary to you . |
| 15 | On 28 February Sjahrir resigned from the premiership : but Sukarno and he needed each other , even if they suspected each other : on 2 March he was back as Premier . |
| 16 | Social activities — Eg Annual dinners ( even if they have prominent Institute members or office holders as guest speaker ) |
| 17 | Doctors put the life expectancy of sufferers at about 40 years — even if they have daily injections of insulin . |
| 18 | Consumers who saw their commitments enlarge so dramatically as a result of higher interest rates , who found themselves over-committed , and then found themselves unemployed and even less able to meet those commitments , will not rush out and spend money even if they have more of it . |
| 19 | They might , therefore , reasonably be expected to share characteristics that were also possessed by those common ancestors , even if they have unique characteristics as well . |
| 20 | She says even if they look angelic , they could still be thieves . |
| 21 | Carry out those instructions even if they sound extreme . |
| 22 | Do n't hesitate to use them even if they sound silly or have to be kept private . |
| 23 | But then even if they do that and even if they get the franchise , they 're not going to be able to say , we can now hold on to it for five , or seven , years , however long the franchise is going to be , because if another bidder comes along in the meantime and says , we rather like this ourselves , they 'll be thrown off . |
| 24 | Ann , even if they do some |
| 25 | Electors may put Labour in office because they hate the Tories or think it 's time for a change or even because they like Labour policies . |
| 26 | Will Labour policy on the NHS mean that patients get treatment even before they fall ill ? |
| 27 | Such individuals are often of low tested IQ even before they fall ill , certainly afterwards their intellectual performance is poor . |
| 28 | He had a rooted antipathy to T. S. Eliot which , even after they had both become famous as defenders of the faith and brothers in Christ , was still hard to shake off . |
| 29 | Even so , there can be no facile equation of racist and sexual discrimination , and this for three main reasons which , even as they preclude that equation , emphasize the significance of those points at which race and sexuality interconnect , and the particular importance of Fanon 's work in this respect . |
| 30 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |