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

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1 Thus we could require as our fourth condition that our justification would remain even when every truth is added to our belief set , all at once .
2 Castro claimed that the country would survive even if " surrounded by an ocean of capitalism " .
3 Wherever she went his eyes followed her and she wished he would speak even if it was only a harsh word .
4 In fact both treatments would work even if one were to be marginally better .
5 Such a policy would work even if it were fully announced , provided that expectations were formed in the way we have assumed .
6 Such a policy would work even if , at the end of period 1 , it was perfectly predictable .
7 That is , it includes just a set of conditions such that if the set existed , so did the effect , and still would have even if certain other conditions or events had also existed .
8 As specified , a causal circumstance includes no more than was needed to necessitate the effect , which is to say that it included just a set of conditions or events such that if the set existed , so did the effect , and still would have even if certain other conditions or events had also existed .
9 She did not know if it would reach Beatrix , of course , nor whether she would respond even if it did . ’
10 The systems of communication of our primate ancestors presumably consisted of words and short sentences ( but what I have to say would hold even if only gestural sequences were involved ) .
11 On the other hand , the person who discovers a lump under their skin but is too frightened to go to the doctor lest he diagnose cancer will be perpetuating the threatening situation — and this would hold even if the lump was in fact benign .
12 Killing would continue even if an effective ban on ivory sales were to be introduced .
13 In spite of this the idea that marriage , the family , property , the State etc. are merely temporal , transitory institutions , the product of a particular social system , is an idea which all modern anthropologists would accept even if many would hesitate to broadcast it .
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