Example sentences of "even [subord] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Faithful to him , even if they would have to be apart sometimes , as he 'd be faithful to her , although he knew she 'd take more than a little convincing about that . |
| 2 | Therefore the buyers were entitled to refuse to accept delivery because the sellers had committed a breach of condition ( i.e. of section 13 ) and the buyers were entitled to do so even if they would have suffered no loss by having the tins packed in cases of 24 instead of cases of 30 . |
| 3 | Even if they can remain with their families , they may place demands on the families which will make it hard for them to cope . |
| 4 | Even if they can produce more food , they have n't the transport or the packaging facilities . |
| 5 | This island does not belong to any one , two or three groups of people , even if they can trace ancestors back two or three centuries . |
| 6 | The effort is likely to be politically disastrous , even if they can agree on a successor . |
| 7 | Even if they can afford to buy one , most Japanese do n't really have the space for it . |
| 8 | Even if they 'd let them in let them get their seats and said look the bar is not open . |
| 9 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 10 | Even if they could think , there is no obvious reason why any thinking entity should be motivated to make copies of itself . |
| 11 | Even if they could sell some today , |
| 12 | Until William Green 's death in 1823 there were not many options open to those people who had the leisure to travel even if they could resist the siren songs of the ‘ Lakes ’ poets . |
| 13 | True , Roger 's children were all in the king 's wardship , the boys far too young to cause trouble , and in reliable hands even if they should try , or others should try on their behalf . |
| 14 | As I seek after truth , so shall I always be glad to receive any information from my friends , even if they should contradict what I may have published , yet I shall never think it derogatory to my character to own my mistakes , and rectify them . |
| 15 | Even supposing they could have pushed that up to 150,000,160 … we 're still way off track . ’ |
| 16 | It stood between her and tears , as though they too were frozen even before they might reach the air . |
| 17 | They bravely went to ‘ is aid , but fell even before they could reach ‘ im . |
| 18 | Many disabled people could not travel to the polling station , and few knew beforehand whether it was accessible , or even whether they could get into the booths . |
| 19 | When such incidents occur the guests feel that their trip has been ruined and blame the hotel , even when they may have contributed to the criminal opportunityby not securing their valuables in a safe deposit box . |
| 20 | Everyone knows that not even two metronomes can stay in synchrony , and certainly all human tempos , even when they might appear close to absolute , continually vary . |
| 21 | The foster parents remain unconcerned as their own eggs or nestlings follow each other to the ground , even when they can see what is going on . |
| 22 | Neither Orcs nor Goblins are particularly technically minded , but they build fast and strong so their devices usually work even though they may appear crude in comparison to human constructions . |
| 23 | Member states may , however , demand standards which are more stringent than the ‘ essential ’ standards , but only for their own domestically produced products or services ; they can not prevent the importation of products that comply with Community essential standards even though they may fail to comply with the more stringent domestic standards . |
| 24 | For example , Private Acts of Parliament are treated as legislation even though they may regulate the conduct of only a single individual ; on the other hand , an ‘ administrative order ’ affecting a large number of people may be difficult to distinguish from as legislative act . |
| 25 | They do this even though they may break the conventions from time to time . |
| 26 | When presented with adequate messages , even though they may contain only the minimal information necessary to locate the target , young children are capable of the necessary perceptual discrimination and message decoding to perform effectively as listeners . |
| 27 | Even though they may protest that they are perfectly capable of driving , they wo n't be . |
| 28 | Individual managers are likely to be predisposed to behaving in one predominant role , even though they may show tendencies towards others . |
| 29 | They allow others to make their decisions for them , even though they may resent it later . |
| 30 | At least it does so in regions of ancient written culture like Europe , where the same names for ethnic groups persist over long periods , even though they may describe quite different and changing social realities . |