Example sentences of "even if [pron] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 2 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
| 3 | Even if one ignores any effects on the fetus and neonate , what about the mother ? |
| 4 | But , even if one accepts those difficulties , the balance of advantage has lain in our continuing membership and in arguing from our position within the Community — from the ’ heart of Europe ’ to use the words of the Prime Minister — as my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) did so successfully over our budget contribution . |
| 5 | Even if one accepts this view of the social role of a doctrine of justice , and gives it the priority Rawls assigns to it , his conclusions are not supported by his arguments for at least three reasons . |
| 6 | Even if one included this initial adherence , however , there would still be a significant difference in uptake , but the derived uptake is a mere fraction of that of 5-ASA . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even if they survive those patients undergoing suffocation are suffering unacceptable and repeated abuse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ann , even if they do some |
| 15 | However , even if we take that summarising phrase as one possible expression of the topic of speaker R 's lengthy contribution , we have surely not adequately characterised what this speaker was talking about . |
| 16 | The assumption that there is a necessary connection between democracy and freedom is surely correct , even if we take some of the narrower definitions of democracy . |
| 17 | And even if we succeed this time , the one who inherits his mantle many succeed the next . |
| 18 | Moreover , say Hackman and Oldham , even if we had this knowledge , it would still be a struggle to implement good job design principles . |
| 19 | I I 'm grateful Mr Deputy Speaker and I I will certainly er stay in order but the British electorate coming up to June the ninth and the European er elections will not know even if we pass these particular proposals tonight er in which constituencies they will be voting and if I may give an illustration as the honourable member for Truro did er er as far as his European constituency is concerned er the European constituency of Derbyshire Ashfield will d be divided into three different directions as the result of this particular order in council if we pass it tonight . |
| 20 | Even if we encourage some doctors to specialise in medical education , most of the day to day teaching will remain the domain of jobbing doctors . |
| 21 | Even if we have another homicide on our hands this is not the scene of the crime . |
| 22 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 23 | even if we see each other every week we still have loads to talk about . |
| 24 | Even if we multiply this by three to allow for the greater number who considered themselves adherents although they had not joined the Society , and then increase the resulting 200,000 to half a million to allow for more casual " hearers " , this is still not a large fraction of a population of 10 million . |
| 25 | ‘ Many of us truly want to believe that money-making schemes are genuine , even if we harbour some doubts . ’ |
| 26 | Even if we accept this , it is questionable how useful an analytical framework is which has an untenable base . |
| 27 | But , even if we accept these directions as a legitimate part of the A text , what Faustus 's damnation consists of is not clear . |
| 28 | So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives . |
| 29 | But even if we agree this order tonight none of those issues will actually be clearly resolved er , there is a temptation and I regret that the honourable member for Southend succumbed to this , there 's a temptation to blem blame the French and the French government for this present state of uncertainty . |
| 30 | Even if we adjust this figure downwards to say 20 per cent for the pre-1914 period , this still represents quite a large number of women ( 160 out of 800 ) who were in the trade for life , which usually meant until well over 60 . |