Example sentences of "even if [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |
| 2 | Thus , if the consecutive-spill method of handling synonyms has been used , a search may still be necessary even if no home record is detected when the home position is searched . |
| 3 | This is because the wealth base recognizes the additional economic power and hence taxable capacity offered by wealth ownership , even if no money income is derived , as for example with the ownership of jewels , or where an identical money income is secured from two very different capital values . |
| 4 | He was one of the very few left of the Bruce 's close company , even if no paladin . |
| 5 | Even if no fight occurred , membership of such a group was an end in itself . |
| 6 | I stress that King 's Cross would offer advantages even if no rail link were built . |
| 7 | Patients who have had previous experience of hypnotherapy ( even if no regression was involved ) are more likely to have confidence in the technique and in its safety , and therefore are often more willing to put themselves in the hands of the therapist and trust their own subconscious . |
| 8 | Each contracting State shall be free to declare that the judge , notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph of this article , may give judgment even if no certificate of service or delivery has been received , if all the following conditions are fulfilled — |
| 9 | Even if no tax has been paid , you need to issue a P60 if the employee has paid contributions and was working for you on 5th April . |
| 10 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 11 | Equally , the unofficial communique was undoubtedly part of a rank-and-file protest against pressures for reform generated by the Scarman Report , even if no mention is made of it ! |
| 12 | If the Secretary of State has considered a proposed merger and made a decision as to clearance or otherwise in respect of it a fee will also be payable even if no application for clearance has been made . |
| 13 | Even if no super-agency is established to deal with the environmental crisis , it will still be necessary to create a regime which can monitor and police compliance with agreements . |
| 14 | Even if every child of thirteen was learning algebra at eleven o'clock on a Wednesday , each child would be learning algebra for himself , with the help of his own class teacher . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , even if every minister were to trade in his BMW or Mercedes-Benz , it would do little to save the nearly bankrupt car and truck maker . |
| 16 | ‘ I read somewhere that even if every atom in the universe could be made to function as a flipflop switch in a binary computer , it still would n't be big enough to follow all the possible routes that the universe could create . ’ |
| 17 | Think how many management consultants ( agents of organisational change ) there are — 1,763 firms at the last official count — and while you could say the internal cost in terms of management person hours and midnight oil bills dwarves the external consultant fee that goes with it , it does n't leave an awful lot for the average consultancy of Runnit Downe Foryewe & Howe , even if every firm blew an assignment each . |
| 18 | However , as Nafis Sadik , head of UNFPA , pointed out : " Even if every woman only had 2.1 children [ the replacement level ] the population is already so large [ at just over 5.5 billion ] that we will be headed for 8.5 billion people no matter what " . |
| 19 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 20 | Parents know what their children are longing for and will give them what they want , even if every piggy bank in the house has to be broken open . |
| 21 | And even if every star managed to lose enough mass to avoid collapse , what would happen if you added more mass to a white dwarf or neutron star to take it over the limit ? |
| 22 | Even if a firm has roubles in a Kazakh bank , it can not necessarily use them to pay a Russian supplier . |
| 23 | Charitable donations , however , did nothing to enhance a political interest , even if a lack of charity could seriously harm it , for a substantial contribution from a major political figure was no more than was expected by the gentlemen of a county or the magistrates of a burgh . |
| 24 | Women are generally smaller then men but even if a man and a woman are the same height and weight , the woman is likely to have a smaller proportion of muscle . |
| 25 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 26 | The tenants of the manor comprised the ‘ homage ’ or jury that decided the by-laws for the coming months ; even if a man was not present , his absence would be recorded . |
| 27 | This is only a marginal improvement , for even if a government stooge is avoided , the separate agency chairmen and members may still win control on important issues . |
| 28 | Finally , even if a government was prepared to use positive discrimination measures more vigorously and adopt a policy of staff direction in employment , it will need to make private provision illegal if it is to succeed in equalising the geographical distribution of services . |
| 29 | Even if a will does not give property to trustees , the property , whether real or personal , does not go directly to those for whose benefit it is given , nor does property passing on intestacy go directly to those entitled under the rules above stated . |
| 30 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |