Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] even [subord] " in BNC.

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1 It was noted that the localiser deflection sensitivity of the No. 1 VOR was set too high and the flag alarm settings on both the localiser and the glideslope were such that the flags would not appear even when the signals were unusable .
2 One by one he filled each chamber with powder and then , without wadding or patch , placed a soft lead ball on its mouth and pulled the long lever beneath the barrel ; this lever moved the rammer which forced the lead down into the chamber and sealed it so completely , the Collector had been assured , that the powder would still fire even if you immersed your arm completely in water .
3 So one of the great figures of mid sixteenth-century France was emphatically reminding Mary of her position as the crucial link between Scotland and France ; for that was where her importance would really lie even if she spent most of her life in France , and knowledge of Scotland therefore mattered greatly .
4 He was always on the watch for an affront , which he would often imagine even when it had not been intended , an easy thing for a Frenchman at a politically sensitive time .
5 The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet .
6 Of course it is possible that neither of these political showbiz programmes would actually survive even until the interval .
7 Yet he knew that most of them would never survive even if they were free and that most would probably want to stay where they had for so long been safe , secure and well fed .
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