Example sentences of "even [subord] a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 ( b ) I do not accept that quasi-contractual claims , even where a contract is involved , are properly to be treated as falling per se within article 5(1) , having regard both to the general considerations I have already advanced in my analysis of the cases such as Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and also because it is difficult to locate a place of performance for a quasi-contractual obligation .
2 Working Paper 2 states : ‘ … even where a service is regarded as one which must be provided locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , if the patient and the GP or DHA as purchaser believe it to be better for them to be treated elsewhere ’ .
3 But even where a case is tried summarily , magistrates still have the power to commit a convicted defendant to the Crown Court for sentence where they feel that their own powers are inadequate .
4 The Royal College 's proposals would allow a person to be recalled to hospital by a doctor without an application by an approved social worker , even where a person is symptom-free .
5 Even where a household is categorized as a farming household there is a high probability that family members will be employed outside the farming sector and much of the household 's income will also be drawn from outside it .
6 Compared with the prolonged torment and mutilations of life on the ground , the knowledge that a pilot 's expectancy of survival was far poorer even than a machine-gunner 's could not detract from the infantryman 's envy ; even though death commonly meant being burned alive , at least it was quick , clean — and witnessed by thousands .
7 The tenants of the manor comprised the ‘ homage ’ or jury that decided the by-laws for the coming months ; even if a man was not present , his absence would be recorded .
8 Finally , even if a government was prepared to use positive discrimination measures more vigorously and adopt a policy of staff direction in employment , it will need to make private provision illegal if it is to succeed in equalising the geographical distribution of services .
9 Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her .
10 Even if a building is not listed , special consent must be sought to demolish it ; so conservation area designation ( see page 26 ) is a useful form of protection for unlisted buildings .
11 It has , however , come to represent the ‘ norm ’ in technical writing to such a degree that , even if a writer was not particularly interested in giving an impression of objectivity , s/he would find it difficult to break away from the convention of using predominantly passive structures in technical writing .
12 This shows that even if a court is not prepared to award one remedy , it may be prepared to give another instead .
13 Even if a person is buying desks for computers or word processors for an office , the appearance of the furniture is a major factor influencing the choice .
14 In London , even if a case were delayed because a witness had not presented himself or the judge was ill , there was always plenty of work waiting for her in chambers .
15 Even if a computer was available which could cope with the load , the system has serious difficulties not least of which is coverage .
16 They were to be very ‘ diplomatic ’ with recalcitrant poor peasants , and on no account were they to take to court more than a small minority in any one area , even if a majority were guilty .
17 The second is the spoken-word production system : even if a word is correctly identified by the visual word-recognition system , it can not be read aloud lexically unless its pronunciation can be generated from the spoken-word production system .
18 You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage .
19 The key point to bear in mind is that , even if a faculty is granted , listed building consent is also required for demolition .
20 Also , even if a subject is never directly or completely ‘ freed ’ trom repression by its displacement , he or she may be empowered in other ways — for example , by being seen to be homophobic in a homophobic culture .
21 As with bites from other venomous animals , young and elderly people are most at risk ; and even if a bite is not fatal , it may cause massive tissue damage , so that hospitalisation is often necessary .
22 It probably requires that treatment continue , even if a request is made by the patient or another that it should cease .
23 It is important to note here than even if a parent is gripped by those negative fantasies that the textbooks claim to be real and universal , she is also immediately capable of embracing a critique of the values she is confronted with .
24 Yet even if a shareholder were able to bring a derivative action under one of the exceptions to the rule in Foss v.
25 Even if a car is n't in stock and we have to wait for it to be built , we can generally hold the agreed price . ’
26 Even if a car is sold as new this does not necessarily mean that it should be perfect .
27 Here it is argued that jurisdiction is conditional on its proper exercise so that even if a tribunal is entitled to enter into the enquiry , it can lose its power by the way that power is used .
28 Even if a place is found there 's the bills .
29 And even if a break were to be found , the five naos and the 277 men would have to sail — how far ?
30 Even if a business was very efficient , he said , it was difficult to generate gross margins of more than 28% , whereas an efficient company in the fast-growing network market could do much better than that .
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