Example sentences of "even if [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nell , unsure of the worth of his compliment , nevertheless sat down opposite him , even if temporarily . |
| 2 | They never flee from combat , and will fight to the death even if repeatedly beaten by their opponents . |
| 3 | VPL 's Reality Built For Two — where two people can meet in Virtual Reality even if physically located in different continents |
| 4 | The trouble lies withe laity , encumbered , even if unconsciously , by a vision of Trollope 's Church , of an old order and propriety , with services in Cranmer 's English . |
| 5 | or even if just the noun and pronoun changed places : |
| 6 | However , the opening attempt at such a panorama , even if well observed , can only be provisional . |
| 7 | Even if well fed , they can not stop searching and exploring , as this has become an end in itself in their behaviour repertoire . |
| 8 | To judge from the literature , the distinction drawn between palaeontology and genetics or archaeology and anthropology , is sometimes equally deleterious even if largely administrative ( Vita-Finzi , p. 111 ) . |
| 9 | It was thought unlikely that , even if successfully applied , the Florida statute could survive an appeal process . |
| 10 | However , in the world of Orwell 's 1984 there may be people who although sure that the events abolished by official historiography did happen , are not so sure that the experiences treasured in memory keep the value which official propaganda degrades ; they might be happier for the assurance that , in the sense that it remains true that an event happened even if universally forgotten an experience remains good even if in universally shrinking awareness there will never again be anyone capable of appreciating it . |
| 11 | Even if individually neither their lives nor their property were secure , collectively they constituted an interest group with whom the Grand Prince was intimately bound up . |
| 12 | In the eye of the Common Law there is plenty of land as good elsewhere ; but the purchaser has set his heart on just this piece of land , and damages ( even if liberally assessed , which is not always the case ) are not what he wants . |
| 13 | I realise that to a man like you this situation is probably an open invitation to a spot of casual sex , even if generally you do n't fancy redheads , as you so gallantly pointed out when we first met … ’ |
| 14 | The loss was irreplaceable , and the pain was never forgotten , even if stoically shouldered . |
| 15 | ‘ Governments do n't invest properly — unpopular job losses , even if commercially necessary , are likely to be resisted , ’ was how one put it . |
| 16 | The client , even if financially unsophisticated , would probably read The Daily Telegraph or The Times ; failing that , the Independent or the Guardian . |
| 17 | In three important — and partially overlapping — groups , however , the ‘ Führer myth ’ was still disproportionately strong , even if here too there were distinct signs of its decay . |
| 18 | The doctrine of the Trinity , so far from being an appendix ( even if also a coping-stone ) to Christian theology , as it had seemed to Schleiermacher , supplies the ground-plan , the inner dynamics of the whole . |
| 19 | The main thrust of this passage , it must be said , was to instil a measure of resolve into jurors who , even if intellectually convinced , might shrink from the unwelcome duty of convicting on a capital charge , but the words emphasised above show that the judge ( who had earlier adverted to the burden of proof ) was also telling the jury to concentrate on the evidence . |
| 20 | ‘ It must have one , even if subliminally . ’ |
| 21 | In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result . |
| 22 | In Virginia , however , it seems that the very fact that parent and subsidiary maintain separate , even if wholly formal , corporate identities prevents service on the subsidiary amounting to good service on the parent . |
| 23 | Even if both man and woman are earning a wage , the man 's wage will be higher than the woman 's and so his job more important than the woman 's . |
| 24 | Propagation — by seed , budding , or grafting — will concern only the minority of rose gardeners , but has to be included , even if rather briefly . |
| 25 | A tougher budget , even if economically desirable ( which is highly doubtful ) , might have widened Labour 's lead in the polls . |
| 26 | To wake up a Woosnam who has struggled on some dull courses and slow greens recently , it took a demanding course and fast greens , even if neither were as demanding nor fast as perhaps in previous years . |
| 27 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 28 | The Third World as a term needs to retrieve this lost positive sense — even if today the political order has changed so that to some extent the various forms of Islamic fundamentalism have taken over the role of providing a direct alternative to First and Second World ideologies . |
| 29 | That is on the right lines , of course , since certainly we do not suppose that e would have occurred even if either cc or e itself did not . |
| 30 | . No but it 's better to have er parents who think highly of their kids even if slightly mistakenly |