Example sentences of "even if they [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most heads of departments and senior staff were favourable to the idea of the appraisal , even if they had been put-off initially . |
| 2 | Even if they had been willing to rely on relatives , they could not do so ( Anderson , 1977 ) . |
| 3 | The consensus was overwhelming , but Shaughnessy could call none of his informants to the witness stand , even if they had been willing to testify , because almost everything they had told him — no matter how detailed and how well corroborated by information from other independent sources — would have been ruled out as inadmissible hearsay . |
| 4 | He has also observed that an immediate cause of the creation of this new duty of the judges was the royal mandate which ordered the Court of Common Pleas to remain stationary at Westminster instead of perambulating the country in attendance on the King , and the subsequent disinclination of the serjeants , even if they had been sufficient in number , to absent themselves from the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster in order to attend the King 's Court during its perambulatory travels . |
| 5 | Nozick suggests that the reason why we take the justified true beliefs in those examples not to have been known is that a would have believed them even if they had been false . |
| 6 | Even if they had been eager to serve , these landowners could be no more than part-time soldiers . |
| 7 | This means that not only can aspiring professionals come back to play in the Home Internationals afterwards , even if they have been successful , but also that they are in a position to change their minds if successful . |