Example sentences of "even [conj] we [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean like with Kevin and Bill , we negotiated but even that we would n't talk about their professional work as a careers officer |
| 2 | So we like these criminals , even if we would n't care to have them call on us . |
| 3 | Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote : |
| 4 | Alex and I were convinced that even if we would not discover new superconductivity materials , our work on the metal oxides would yield very interesting results . ’ |
| 5 | So I 'm I 'm not only going to be asking the conference office about what 's there , but I 'm going to be going and asking individuals even if we ca n't record your keynote speech here , will you be able to record us interviews , will you be able to record us whatever else . |
| 6 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 7 | Anyway , even if we ca n't find you a single , we 'll be more than happy to offer you our FREE service whereby we organise a share of a twin or triple room for you . |
| 8 | But even if we ca n't breed this beautiful little tetra in the vast numbers accounted for by the Far-Eastern fish farmers , we can still breed enough to have a fine shoal of Neons for our own tanks . |
| 9 | Even if we ca n't provide exactly what they want , we can provide ideas they can adjust for their particular model . ’ |
| 10 | But even if we can not harness the emission from these primordial black holes , what are our chances of observing them ? |
| 11 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 12 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 13 | Even if we can not understand the words of a foreign language , at least our minds are all human such that communication of meaning — human meaning — can take place . |
| 14 | The rhythms and tones of a public speaker , for instance , can help pupils to appreciate his techniques of rousing an audience , even if we can not understand the words . |
| 15 | These impressive alterations probably represent an important event in the development of the site , even if we can not define precisely what preceded it , how widespread it was and why it happened . |
| 16 | Even if we can not get at ‘ the truth itself ’ and ‘ be admitted into the very inner shrines of nature ’ , we can at least ‘ glimpse … some slight image of it ’ , and ‘ live among certain of the outer altars ’ . |
| 17 | We can find justifying arguments for its ethical contents , even if we could not come to them on our own . |
| 18 | The prediction is indeed borne out ; contrast ( 13 ) and ( 14 ) : ( 13 ) a total one the mere one ( 14 ) a rudimentary one the deciduous one Even when we can not tell what sort of being or object is designated by one in examples like ( 14 ) , they will still be grammatically acceptable unlike the anomalous phrases in ( 13 ) . |
| 19 | This too is research , even though we may not honour it with the name . |
| 20 | But it 's because we accepted the challenge of change , even though we may not have liked everything that went with it , that we 're here today . |
| 21 | Closely related species , however , like chimps and humans , have such large chunks of adjacent contents in common that we can easily identify them as basically the same , even though we ca n't use quite the same addressing system for the two species . |
| 22 | We may — just — achieve our target of twenty recruits , even though we can not offer financial assistance to the majority of them . |
| 23 | It is wonky in a way that we can work out , even though we can not see it curving off into any extra fourth dimension . ’ |