Example sentences of "even [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More impressive even than the RS 's sheer power are it 's handling characteristics . |
| 2 | The organisers hope for more visitors even than the Rembrandt show the insurance premium is already higher |
| 3 | Powys is the extreme example : with an area comparable to the larger English counties , it has a population smaller even than the Isle of Wight ( Table 3.3 ) . |
| 4 | The point he seems to have missed is that even if the BBC had not been outbid by Sky for coverage , it was , I think , unlikely that we would have seen ( a ) ball-by-ball-by-ball coverage ( not highlights ) during social hours on the following day . |
| 5 | But of course , even if the Horton does decide to go self-governing , it still depends on the government to give the go ahead ? |
| 6 | The three countries agreed that they would withdraw their co-operation even if the Warsaw Treaty summit now went ahead . |
| 7 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 8 | Euratom would probably have run into similar difficulties even if the EEC had not been in place . |
| 9 | An object 's appearance is the first way we recognise where it comes from : a Volkswagen ‘ Beetle ’ is an instantly recognisable shape even if the VW badge has fallen off the car ; likewise we recognise a Rolls Royce . |
| 10 | Even if the North Sea oil bonus is stripped out , the firm expects Scottish growth of 1.4 per cent after a fall of 1.3 per cent in non-oil output between 1991 and 1992 . |
| 11 | Even if the US kept up the pressure , would public statements from France about her intentions be enough ? particularly in view of what they had told the US so far ? |
| 12 | SALT , for example , gave the Soviets an advantage in the number of ICBM 's ( even if the US maintained predominance in total numbers of warheads ) ; grain sales to Russia helped Brezhnev solve his agricultural problems but upset US markets ; Jewish emigration from the USSR increased but not enough to please the critics so that the US Congress ( under the Jackson-Vanik amendment ) decided to tie economic deals with Russia to greater Jewish emigration . |
| 13 | That is both a misreading of what European Union implies , even if the Maastricht treaties go forward ; and , because Maastricht is unravelling , it is a misreading of what will now happen . |
| 14 | But even if the Handscomb decision were fully accepted , I consider that he was entitled to make a distinction ; the difficulty of assessing the requirements of retribution and deterrence from the judges ' tariff in a murder case was a sufficient ground for his reserving the decision in mandatory life sentence cases to himself . |
| 15 | Indeed , it could be said , that even if the Kouros does turn out to be a fake , it will have generated more detailed research into Greek sculpture than any other work in existence . |
| 16 | Bud Scraggs , chief of staff to the State Governor , said that the State 's plans would n't be dampened even if the Fleischmann and Pons paper failed the peer review process . |
| 17 | But even if the Manchu was curious , his adherence to the code of satori — a system of behaviour which defined what was right and proper for every situation — would prevent him from giving the feeling expression . |
| 18 | Even if the Bookman had wanted to answer the questions , he could n't have replied to them all so quickly . |
| 19 | A bigger headache , unlikely to go away even if the Gulf threat evaporates , is the weakness of both the yen and the dollar . |
| 20 | With the end of the Cold War , however , major European powers such as Britain and France will hopefully move towards defensive postures ( even if the Gulf conflict has emphasised the need to keep some forces for rapid deployment for use in other regions ) . |
| 21 | However , even if the USSR does feel it necessary to reduce oil exports , any foreign exchange gap created should be filled by growing gas exports . |
| 22 | ‘ Even if the IWC permits us to resume , commercial whaling [ in the Antarctic ] has died ’ , says Japan 's IWC representative , Fukuzo Nagasaki . |
| 23 | Under the proposal , strongly supported by environmental groups and a number of other delegations , notably the UK , the Antarctic would be declared off-limits to whalers , even if the IWC approved a return to commercial hunting . |
| 24 | Even if the PLO did waive refugee rights , it is questionable whether it would be able to maintain such a waiver . |
| 25 | Mr. Gardiner submitted as an alternative that even if the Woolwich principle did not apply , nevertheless the payment to the revenue was made under duress and was therefore recoverable . |
| 26 | Even if the Serbs cease their shelling , there is no guarantee that Croats and Muslims will not contest this region . |
| 27 | But no one in Class 1 had seemed unduly disturbed by his account of them , even if the Husayn twins had said that pigs were ‘ boring ’ and had asked if they could bring in the novelization of Terminator Two . |
| 28 | Even if the DES does not grasp control , will schools be free to determine the curriculum ? |
| 29 | It is perhaps doubtful in the present climate that the aircraft could have been kept in the air beyond the end of this year , even if the VA has still been in a position to influence affairs . |
| 30 | Anyway , ’ she went on , softening slightly , ‘ that story 's only fiction even if the James character is remarkably like you . |