Example sentences of "[coord] even if [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And even if Harvey had written just about the whole of Amaranth 's damn speech , she would , were it to be successful , be more in need of his favours than Harvey 's . |
| 2 | He said something in Italian and even if Caroline did n't understand the words , the meaning was clear enough . |
| 3 | And even if Agassi survives his first test , his path to a second successive final is strewn with trip wire , with former champions Boris Becker and Michael Stich top seed Pete Sampras and powerful ninth seeded Dutchman Richard Krajicek all in his half of the draw . |
| 4 | And even if Nigel Lawson contains inflation and brings interest rates down over the next year , Labour will be able to remind voters ‘ Do n't forget ’ . |
| 5 | And even if Robbie decided to remain independent , she would visit her family … knowing that Fen was only a stone 's throw away — with his wife . |
| 6 | Nor was Haig deterred by the fact that German U-boats operated in the main from home ports , and even if Zeebrugge and Ostend were taken , the submarine peril would persist . |
| 7 | They now operated in cells , and even if Patrick and Jane were being sheltered , only a very small number of people , perhaps no more than two or three , might be aware of it . |
| 8 | And even if Gazza fails to make his mark in Italy , there will be no shortage of interest in him , with his hometown club Newcastle last night reported to be ready to step in at the end of the season . |
| 9 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In leaving the room , swelling for the first time with tears , she had collided awkwardly with Gordon 's mother , who supposed she could stand where she liked in her own house , and even if Edward had called after her , she would not have been able to hear him . |
| 12 | And even if Uncle Alan turns up within a month or two , he can hardly complain . |
| 13 | And even if Dersingham did want to adopt an heir , who would want to be adopted by Dersingham ? |
| 14 | But even if Sheridan 's case was rightly decided and a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense will support a plea of autrefois convict , that does not appear to me to lead to the conclusion that a ‘ conviction ’ in the narrower sense must end the power of the court to allow a plea to be changed . |
| 15 | In this work it is extraordinarily easy to produce ghost images and chimeras , like the canals on Mars , which may or may not be cracks , but even if Andrade 's patterns showed genuine surface cracks , which seems likely , this would not prove that there were not also internal cracks . |
| 16 | But even if Patrick Milligan had known the size of ‘ Buck ’ O'Hara 's munificence , he would not have raised any objections . |
| 17 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 18 | But even if Lenin was correct in his analysis of the capitalist-imperialist roots of the First World War , by the 1950s and 1960s the capitalist global system and the Third World had both changed so much that many Marxists felt the need to generate new theories to explain what was happening and to show the way forward from a political point of view . |
| 19 | ‘ But even if Riddle was the child 's father , to shoot him would be over-reacting , would n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But even if Eldorado becomes a hit like Last Of The Summer Wine , I certainly WO N'T be opening a Spanish tea-room . ’ |
| 21 | But even if Kirsty had n't insisted , she would have taken part anyway . |
| 22 | The number-two car with Dino Tremiti had done well and held current pole position , but even if Ace did brilliantly the Brazilian who drove for Carlisle Flint 's closest rivals was hot on his tail , and he had a reputation for being able to go just that little bit faster under the pressure of a time to beat . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Third place went to Johnnie Rea who was the only rider likely to catch King in the championship but even if Rea wins the next four rounds — both at Bishopscourt — King can not be caught . |
| 25 | But even if Saunderson 's apartment mixing-room is just a mini version of the real thing , it 's comforting to note that the man behind Inner City — an increasingly sought-after producer called to work with everyone from Samantha Fox to the Wee Papa Girl Rappers — still composes songs if not in his bedroom , then in the next to it . |
| 26 | He might have been able to help him , but even if Ken had wanted to do it all without any assistance from his younger brother , he might at least have told him what he was doing . |
| 27 | But even if Kants idea of a unitary space is granted , it is still not entirely clear how places in such a space can act as a principle of individuation . |
| 28 | Some commentators have complained that Clark 's title , Civilisation , was misleading , as only Western arts were treated ; but even if Clark had been willing to take on world art , costs would no doubt have prevented such a grandiose project . |