Example sentences of "even [conj] [pers pn] are [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two specimens of the same species , we normally assume , are numerically distinguishable even if they are qualitatively completely alike . |
| 2 | First , it normally includes ( and therefore the COB Rules regulate ) dealings as principal , even if they are technically not investment business because of the exemption for qualifying own account transactions in para 17 of Sched 1 to the FSA . |
| 3 | Official studies show that 70 per cent of Soviets estimate that they are not working to their full capacity , only nine per cent aspire to posts with greater responsibility , while 13 per cent actually prefer jobs with less responsibility , even if they are less well paid . |
| 4 | So their file shows them as remaining in debt , even when they are no longer . |
| 5 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 6 | Even though they are no longer working or bringing up children , their time is as precious to them as ours is to us . |
| 7 | The syllabus is still conceived of as a collection of atomistic linguistic elements even though they are now functionally rather than formally defined . |
| 8 | Try and be positive , even though you are perhaps really with your back against a wall , in a situation that you really know that the department has done something really pretty awful . |