Example sentences of "but even [conj] [pron] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if one were to follow a couple for a whole day on repeated occasions , would this do justice to the full range , texture and history of the changing day-to-day relations between mother and child ? |
| 2 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 3 | But even if they were involved only with implementation , they would still be extremely powerful because of the importance of administration in determining exactly what people get from government . |
| 4 | But yes it could be done , but even if it were done , and you were quite right , the the the intelligence is insufficiently precise to actually hit everybody . |
| 5 | Being , as I think , unattached , the statue was , prima facie , not a fixture , but even if it were attached , the application of the second test would lead to the same conclusion . |