Example sentences of "even [subord] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where society relies on private agencies to monitor regulations , society will probably want to set the standards itself . |
| 2 | ( It is important to realise that even where management controls Newco within s416 the institutions investing in Newco may also control it under s416 . ) |
| 3 | Even where legislation has been phrased in the European manner , like section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act , the courts have nevertheless contrived to let pro-executive exceptions swallow the supposed rule ( see the Guardian Newspaper case , Chapter 5 ) . |
| 4 | Even where knowledge appears the same though , there is often a difference in the way it is applied and understood . |
| 5 | Harmony with our children , even where harmony has not existed before , becomes an important element of our peace of mind . |
| 6 | Not only are biblical accounts of supernatural visitations during dreams and dreams foretelling the future repeated without comment , even where ambiguity exists , the authors writing for children insert more accounts of dreams rather than asserting that visitations happened to people who were awake . |
| 7 | It is best treated with relaxation therapy and with just lying in bed , resting , even if sleep does not come . |
| 8 | MARTI Caine is to go ahead with plans for her role as the Red Queen in Snow White at Cardiff 's New Theatre — even if cancer strikes her again . |
| 9 | Quine suggests very plausibly that , even if experience shows something to be wrong with a theory , it can not point a finger at any particular hypothesis . |
| 10 | Something like a worm is often taken at once even if groundbaiting has not been carried out beforehand . |
| 11 | From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments . |
| 12 | Rewarded gifting has the hesitant support of the ethical committee of the Transplantation Society ‘ … paid organ donation must not be condemned out of hand ’ and of the Vedic scholar , Ramakrishna Dikshitar ‘ … even if money changes hands , it is still in keeping with the Hindu belief in helping others ’ . |
| 13 | They deserve fair play , even if Stone does n't . |
| 14 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 15 | That is true even if incineration produces energy that can be sold , or if recycling recovers sellable materials . |
| 16 | As Sa'di said : ‘ If a diamond falls in the dirt it is still a diamond , yet even if dust ascends all the way to heaven it remains without value . ’ ’ |
| 17 | To take the most obvious arithmetical point , if the number of crimes per police officer increases , then , other things being equal , the detection rate must fall , even if efficiency remains constant . |
| 18 | Its effect will be that even if property passes earlier to the buyer , the goods will remain at the seller 's risk until their arrival . |
| 19 | Even if recovery reduces the PSBR , few economists expect it to dip below £25 billion ( around 4% of GDP ) even after several years of growth . |
| 20 | Even if fusion becomes an energy producer , realistic commercial production will not be until the mid-21st century , which is beyond the interest span of the average member of Congress . |
| 21 | Even if Rainbow has entered the jaws of the enemy , the house rules regarding gender are crystal clear . |
| 22 | Even if labour moves between firms , they carry with them more skill and experience than a new recruit and may therefore expect this to be rewarded . |
| 23 | Just as our heroine turns away to dress herself , I rejoin Rainbow , whose brain has stopped reeling even if mine has n't , and is now murmuring her thanks . |
| 24 | This may occur at the exposed soil surface as raindrops selectively erode fine clay particles , leaving heavier sand particles : with time this process can affect deeper parts of the soil profile , impairing its water-retaining capacity to such an extent that even after agriculture has been abandoned the forest may be unable to recolonise . |
| 25 | Generally , these companies have been highly successful since privatization , even after account has been taken of nationwide trends affecting all companies . |
| 26 | Until payment of the damages , however , the plaintiff retains his property in the goods and may exercise all his rights as owner even after judgment has been given in his favour . |
| 27 | ‘ But because unemployment tends to increase for a while even after growth has resumed and because some taxes , particularly corporation tax , are collected a year in arrears , I expect borrowing next year to rise further . |
| 28 | The policy-making process is like the design of a building for a specific occupant by an architects the implementation process affects policy design quite early on and will continue to influence some details of it even after implementation has begun , just as modifications are made to buildings after occupancy . |
| 29 | Even as recession seems at last to be easing , the strains that recession has helped to create between booksellers and publishers were brought quickly to the fore at the Booksellers Association annual conference in Torquay this week . |
| 30 | Finally , there is a latent essentialism in his work , and this comes out in his use of ‘ the body ’ as a final court of appeal , as that which is irreducible to power even as power invests it . |