Example sentences of "even [subord] [noun] have [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal confirmed that the defence of provocation was unavailable ; even if D had lost his self-control at the time , it was hardly a sudden and temporary response to an act of the deceased , who was asleep when D struck him . |
| 2 | Even if Catholicism had lost its grip on middle-class intellectuals like himself , and on the majority of urban and rural working-class Spaniards , Azaña 's statement reflected a serious — and dangerous — misreading of the situation throughout much of provincial and particularly rural Spain , where religious devotion remained strong and the Church itself popular . |
| 3 | That the revolution must succeed does not , of course , follow from the economic argument alone , even if Marx has got it right . |
| 4 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 5 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 6 | Even if it 's even if people had sold their houses to the local council . |
| 7 | Even before Jack had given him his instructions he was moaning , silly old bastard . |
| 8 | Middle-earth itself survived in song even after people had forgotten what it meant : ‘ 0 cocks are crowing a merry midd-larf , /A wat the wilde foule boded day . ’ |
| 9 | Even when Emma had gone her appetite had not slackened . |
| 10 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 11 | Celia served the cold cucumber soup hot , and burnt the steak even though Christina had told her numerous times that Stephen liked his steak rare . |
| 12 | Yet even though Daniel had spread himself as far as he could , including making himself a primitive chapel out of an east-facing bedroom , there was still a good deal of vicarage left over . |
| 13 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |