Example sentences of "but even if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some commentators have complained that Clark 's title , Civilisation , was misleading , as only Western arts were treated ; but even if Clark had been willing to take on world art , costs would no doubt have prevented such a grandiose project . |
| 2 | ‘ But even if you knew beforehand who was going to get — say — the fifth plate , how could you put poison on it and not on the other plates ? ’ |
| 3 | It is very important not to drink early in the pregnancy , but even if you give up drinking later it will give your baby a better chance . |
| 4 | Often the referee does not hear the final bell and allows the bout to continue , but even if this does happen , no points can be scored . |
| 5 | The tournament doctor may be able to reduce the dislocation by twisting and pulling on the injured limb , but even if he is successful , that is the end of your day 's competition . |
| 6 | But even if treating our awareness of our own mental states as topic-neutral plausibly explains why we are not aware of our brains as such when we are aware of our mental states , it does not explain why knowing fully about the brain does not include knowledge of the nature of experience . |
| 7 | But even If the movements made by the three puppets inside their rooms might seem like dance to some — those who perform them must be actors who can dance . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But even if the proposals prove sufficiently acceptable , important questions of principle will remain unresolved . |
| 10 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 11 | But even if the proposition be true , it could not be the case for more and better education because of the nature of education itself . |
| 12 | But even if you are n't another Bowie or Elton John , you still need to try and develop an original style . |
| 13 | But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’ |
| 14 | But even if you ca n't you have to be the lowest cost supplier if you possibly can . |
| 15 | Beforehand she had combed her hair by the light of the flashlamp , smoothed and rearranged her clothes but even if she had n't Moran would not have noticed this evening . |
| 16 | Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies . |
| 17 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 18 | But even if you 've got plenty of money in your pocket at the moment , you must n't let others take advantage of your generous nature . |
| 19 | But even if she 's up , she ai n't dressed properly — she just wears her dressing gown . |
| 20 | She do n't ask me if I want to go with her , but even if she did I would n't go . |
| 21 | But even if ministers have the time to canvass views from a multitude of different organisations , there is a risk that the hospitality sector 's views will be ignored by Government when too many diverse and conflicting responses are made . |
| 22 | But even if it is not exactly this scheme , it is certain that any global agreement will have to be supported by a mechanism which allows the developing countries to pollute more while they catch up with developed countries which are simultaneously reducing their emissions . |
| 23 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 24 | But even if by some miracle effective protocols are agreed , the momentum of climate change means that whatever action is taken to reduce greenhouse gases will be of more value to generations beyond the mid-century than to those which come before it . |
| 25 | But even if , for sound economic reasons , bargaining about a new , looser Yugoslavia starts in earnest , much could go wrong . |
| 26 | A judgment is expected any moment ; but even if the OFT decides in Aldi 's favour , the matter will still have to be investigated further by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 27 | But even if such issues are excluded , there were far more downgrades than upgrades , and many more than in 1989 . |
| 28 | But even if this was the case , it would be no justification for the party 's boycott of the province . |
| 29 | But even if we do not , we must surely take seriously the witness those chapters bear to the freedom of God , particularly since we are still so prone in our self-important humanity to attempt to manipulate him . |
| 30 | But even if it is created by the new Warhol , will such explicit portraiture sell ? |