Example sentences of "[noun sg] even [conj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such spiral waves could be induced by injecting the non-metabolizable analogue InsPS 3 ( ref. 70 ) , whereas the injection of calcium had no effect even though it caused a localized elevation of calcium . |
| 2 | In addition , competition may mean that we are unable to recoup our initial investment even if we win the contract . |
| 3 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future even though he saw a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year perhaps up about 7pc to 1.7 million . |
| 4 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 5 | In 1976 the general tenor of the Report had gained a general welcome even if it secured no specific action to strengthen local independence . |
| 6 | Sound track by Count Basie and Islam 's answer to Pavarotti in the even more enormous shape of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ; voice like a tripped-out angel in a dream even though I have no idea what he 's singing about and always sneakingly suspect it 's something on the lines of ‘ Hey , let's string up Salman Rushdie , yeah-yeah ’ . |
| 7 | It is rare for children to welcome their parents ' separation even though they welcome an end to any violence , arguments , shouting or unpleasantness . |
| 8 | In a sense , the hype answered that question even before we saw the programme . |
| 9 | Mr Bush accepted the Pentagon proposal even though he told the United Nations that he believed ‘ we can achieve the level of verification that gives us confidence to go forward with this ban ’ . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the tendon developed in the right place even though it had no muscle to which it could attach . |
| 11 | In this sense Cuvier anticipated the modern , Darwinian view of Nature even though he rejected the idea of transmutation . |
| 12 | Hartlepool chairman , Garry H Gibson , says the future of H football is on the greenfield site even though he has no plans to relocate away from the Victoria Ground . |
| 13 | I was wracked by anxiety and guilt even before I made the decision . |
| 14 | Spires of crimson and carmine and blood were the rocks , changing colour even as she watched the new day burn off their sugar-frost coating . |
| 15 | Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) argued that people who have a history of schizophrenia have a high sensitivity to their social environment even when they have no apparent symptoms . |
| 16 | His heir was fined £20,000 , even though his father had obtained a pardon from James I. The Earl of Westmorland was fined £19,000 , and Sir Christopher Hatton £12,000 ; Sir Giles Mompesson was adjudged to pay a total of £3,300 for felling timber even though he produced an Exchequer warrant . |
| 17 | It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation . |
| 18 | In a BBC interview during his brief period of freedom he had promised to continue campaigning for multiparty democracy even if it meant a death sentence for sedition . |
| 19 | Omar was a devout Muslim and like the best Somalis was proud and fearless , though he proved to be remarkably tactful and forbearing whenever I was impatient or angry , and always upheld my authority even when I made a mistake . |
| 20 | It had been tricky enough for him to help the women to whom he had no commitment even though he felt the deepest pity for them , but to help McAllister , whom he loved so dearly — how was he to do that ? |
| 21 | The second sense mentioned by Cotte is " permission given " , and can be illustrated by a sentence such as : ( 215 ) The doctor let me donate blood for my father even though I had a mild case of the flu . |
| 22 | There certainly were opportunities , therefore , for children and young people to contribute both directly and indirectly to the household economy even before they entered the labour market , and on balance the evidence suggests that girls were likely to be more substantial contributors than boys , especially in the provision and exchange of domestic services , although boys may have had more opportunities to earn money . |
| 23 | Education performs political , social , as well as economic functions and it is thus too important to be made the slave to the needs of the economy even though it has no option but to be its servant . |
| 24 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 25 | ‘ I use a condom even if I have a long-term relationship , ’ she has said . |
| 26 | Some members of the group were avid supporters of reggae — they loved the music even while they hated the people who made it . |
| 27 | It seemed there would n't be time to do any prying even if she had the money to go to Chertsey , which she did n't . |
| 28 | He had refused to touch what he called the Stavanger Final Insurance even when he needed the money for his fleet — why should he use it now for what was only indirectly of concern to him ? |
| 29 | Racism of this kind is constantly experienced by black people at all levels of society even if it takes the more subtle form of simply being treated differently . |
| 30 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |