Example sentences of "[vb pp] even [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NRA assessment also believes that increased monitoring , providing more accurate information , has led to some stretches of water being downgraded even though they are probably no worse than ten years ago . |
| 2 | It stood between her and tears , as though they too were frozen even before they might reach the air . |
| 3 | This book is concerned primarily with business secrets and so such issues as marital confidences and privacy are not considered even though they may occasionally have commercial value . |
| 4 | It would also seem that the time before adoption for such children is quite long , that some for whom adoption was the plan will not be adopted even though they will stay with their new families , and that long-term support by specialist workers will be necessary for many of these children . |
| 5 | Each of those payments would have been made even if they were not lawfully in possession … |
| 6 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 7 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 8 | ‘ The patients may have died even if they had been admitted . ’ |
| 9 | In these schools , he implied , people would be falling over themselves to get jobs , and , in certain cases , they might be employed even if they had no formal teaching qualifications , though that was not expected to be the norm . |
| 10 | This last observation may mean that additions , repairs and restorations could be recognised even if they had been carried out with lacquer from the lacquer tree instead of imitations of it . |
| 11 | the comprehension of speech is severely impaired ; sometimes even single spoken words can not be understood even though they are correctly perceived . |
| 12 | Scripts can be thought of as slot-and-filler structures , in which the slots have default values so that events can be inferred even when they are not mentioned explicitly in a text . |
| 13 | Since restrictive practices legislation was first introduced , almost 5000 agreements have been registered , the vast majority of which were abandoned even before they were taken to the Court . |
| 14 | Another is that co-operating individuals jointly benefited even though they were not related ; the co-operative behaviour has evolved because those who did it were more likely to survive as individuals and reproduce than those that did not . |
| 15 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 16 | Antinomians taught that since Christ died for the actual sins of His people , they are justified even before they are born . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , there are class interests involved even though they may not always conveniently reduce to one labouring class versus one capitalist class . |
| 18 | Most forms of severe mental handicap are not inherited even if they are genetic in origin . |
| 19 | In other words , we have another instance where common surface patterns are followed even when they may not be quite appropriate to the intensional structure ( see Section 8.7 ; and Ferris , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | Note that if national currencies are not replaced by a single union currency and the as if assumption is met , then intra-union exchange rates will be fixed even if they are not de jure fixed . |
| 21 | In fact , the potential need to revise the 1987 regulations was identified even before they were published , as a result of the Bank Accounts Directive ( 86/635/EEC ) which , in spite of its name , applies to all forms of credit institutions , including building societies . |
| 22 | Some visitors have been surprised but none have criticised even if they do n't think kinetic sculptures are real art . ’ |
| 23 | Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen . |
| 24 | Where Modernists like Pound and Eliot had been intruders into island life , the new school of Christian apologists , in every sense that matters , were British bred even when they were not British born . |
| 25 | If the bizarre characters were favoured by female choice , or in male competition , they could be maintained even if they decreased the viability of their bearers : the advantage in sexual success could compensate the disadvantage in viability . |
| 26 | The most effective way of doing this is to actively trade on the information acquired even though they run the risk of being prosecuted . |