Example sentences of "even if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 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 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 16 | Even if we can show that this mapping occurs , it is not a complete answer , since we then need a theory of how operations conducted at the neural level translate into behavioural subprocesses . |
| 17 | Even if we can identify the relevant society , we also need to be able to identify the content of that political tradition . |
| 18 | Even if we can convince ourselves that nobody is getting hurt , even if we are sure we are not cheating , we have a suspicion that it is inappropriate . ’ |
| 19 | More fundamentally , even if we could invent a new investigative body , it too would have to be trained to produce reliable results , and for it too we would have to invent some sort of internal verification mechanism . |
| 20 | In addition even if we could identify the decline in utility and the utility remaining we still have to assign some monetary amount to both parts . |
| 21 | There can be no serious defensible pedigrees here ( even if we could decide what characteristics had to be inherited to ensure pure descent ) . |
| 22 | We could probably only charge about £4 a ticket , so even if we could do an Eastern European tour , we 'd lose so much money on it . |
| 23 | The consequences of erecting barriers — even if we could do that — to produce and use fuel at a price that we could achieve only if we erected those barriers would have a direct effect on the cost of power . |
| 24 | It seemed that our quantum mechanics had to be thorough going , even if we could perceive , as we did at the end of Chapter 4 , circumstances in which classical calculations would provide an acceptable approximation . |
| 25 | Motives are very difficult to uncover , and , even if we could know them , they would reveal little about the likely course of foreign policy . |
| 26 | Even if we could escape from Ambon with our cargo and wallets intact , none of us much cared to think about what receptions might lie ahead , as we approached the isolation of New Guinea . |
| 27 | I 'd love to help her , and I know every one of us would ; but I do n't think for a moment that Miss Miggs would let us pay her fare , even if we could raise so much money . ’ |
| 28 | It is , however , extremely unlikely that any of us could find a use for a hundred of these cars , even if we could solve the problem of getting into them , and this illustrates a fundamental difference between the car and the computer , and another reason for speaking of a microelectronics revolution . |
| 29 | Second , even if we could solve the equations , the fact of making a prediction would disturb the system and could lead to a different outcome . |
| 30 | And so even if we could produce Mercedes Benz over here alright , we probably would n't alright , unless all Mercedes Benz production were specialized over here , production has become a lot more specialized in manufacturing , where you just have large plants producing erm , the entire world production of that particular erm , product . |