Example sentences of "even [subord] we do not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we do not want to take too seriously the feuds between Cato and Quinctius Flamininus ( Plut . |
| 2 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 3 | ‘ Now I shall tell you something which I wish you to remember , even if we do not meet again soon after this week . ’ |
| 4 | His general point may survive even if we do not share his preferences for physics , or even science . |
| 5 | In this way the man and his sheep may linger in our minds , even if we do not remember the economic difficulties so clearly — ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ would make a good title for a Victorian narrative painting . |
| 6 | In the case of Rose of Lima , who is simply a very extreme and therefore very demanding example of a more widespread phenomenon , it seems that we must at least understand , even if we do not wish to reclaim and emulate , the ideas about purity which governed her life . |
| 7 | The Labour party needs him badly , even if we do not agree with him . |
| 8 | ( Even if we do not accept the predominant view that names lack a meaning fixed by social convention , no alteration is required in the principles we are sketching here . ) |
| 9 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
| 10 | It is easy to tell if someone is angry or friendly towards us , even if we do not understand their language . |
| 11 | The result applies even if we do not have all > 0 since the device of adding a constant K to all terms simply adds K to and . |
| 12 | He was followed in the same debate by a junior who informed the representative body that even if we did not vote for the juniors ' motion a solution would be imposed by the Department of Health in conjunction with the juniors whether we liked it or not . |
| 13 | Even when we do not follow a conscious spiritual path in terms of a religious faith , we may in fact be realising our purpose in some other way . |
| 14 | Among humans , even when we do not understand the words , the manner of expression still tells us a great deal of what is being communicated , especially at a basic level of feeling , emotion and facts of physical life . |
| 15 | We assume , in both the individual and the political cases , that we can recognize other people 's acts as expressing a conception of fairness or justice or decency even when we do not endorse that conception ourselves . |
| 16 | Also , none of us wanted to spend the rest of our lives there , even though we did not know what else there could be . |
| 17 | To have a concept of error is to accept that we can be in error on a given occasion even though we do not believe we are , and hence that we can be corrected by others . |
| 18 | The result is to cause us to love the theatre : ‘ the play recuperates and intensifies our need for these ceremonies , even though we do not believe in them , and performs them , carefully marked out for us as frauds , for our continued consumption ’ . |