Example sentences of "even if it were not " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , because the lives and experiences of many elderly people prove it is true ; and second , because it would be important , even necessary , for the counsellor and the counsellee to believe it even if it were not true . |
| 2 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 3 | Even if it were not , there would be other problems , such as whether a book read by millions would count equally , in the corpus , with a private letter ; whether some publications ( eg literary magazines ) would be weightier , in determining the norm for the language , than others . |
| 4 | And in this case it seems likely that even if it were not for the depressed state of aggregate demand in the British market , the commodities produced by Talbot at Linwood would not have generated ‘ sufficient ’ profit for Peugeot . |
| 5 | Even if it were not already obvious , the concluding words , ‘ or other intellectual property , ’ show that the ‘ commercial information ’ which the definition contemplates must be information of the same type ( ‘ ejusdem generis ’ ) as the other examples of intellectual property which are listed in subsection ( 5 ) . |
| 6 | Even if it were not a leading objective of his tour , his natural intelligent curiosity , and his conscientiousness on behalf of his readers overcame any notional hierarchy of information . |
| 7 | Secondly , even if it were not missing , manual manipulation of large numbers of records is a very time consuming task , and hardly one that the recruitment team will have time to do during busy periods . |