Example sentences of "even [conj] he be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 2 | He told me he 's infallibly able to recognize women even if he 's only seen them once . |
| 3 | No , even if he 's there he wo n't join in , he 'll think this is women 's business . |
| 4 | Having played on his position as the injured party , Lewis has achieved a result that , even if he 's truly aggrieved , suits both he and Bowe . |
| 5 | Then even if he is here you wo n't see him because you wo n't need to see him , if you see what I mean . |
| 6 | For example , if a person supplies a computer in kit form which , when assembled , infringes a patent , then the supplier of the computer kit infringes the patent even if he is just a middle-man as long as he has the requisite knowledge . |
| 7 | Even if he is also religious — as he often enough still is — his religion is most commonly seen as a private , individual affair , divorced to a greater or lesser degree from the everyday concerns of the public world . |
| 8 | In these anti-avoidance provisions , the relevant test for a " UK customer " is that he is normally resident in the UK and they can therefore apply even if he is physically outside the UK at the relevant time ( eg at the non-UK office concerned ) . |
| 9 | But his old friend ‘ the Professor ’ is obviously a scientist of note — and perhaps best of all , is fun and always using science to produce exciting things , even if he is often defeated by magic spells ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 10 | You just ca n't keep a good man down even if he is only five foot seven . |
| 11 | As long ago as 1750 , Lord Hardwicke L.C. declared that it would be ‘ very mischievous ’ to seek to make one who was ‘ merely a witness ’ a party in order to obtain discovery ; even if he were properly examinable as a witness , his evidence could not be gathered in advance in this way . |
| 12 | He was kind , sympathetic and understanding , even if he was slightly reserved . |
| 13 | Even if he was still paying off a mortgage , he had to be making at least £2,500 a year out of us , not counting the fact that the property had quadrupled in value . |
| 14 | Rainey rarely finishes as low as third ( even if he was only a fraction of a second down on Schwantz at Suzuka ) , but at Eastern Creek he proved he 's dynamic as ever . |
| 15 | It was heaven to be in Roman 's arms , even if he was only playing the part of groom to her bride . |
| 16 | But even if he was more original than he himself claims , he was only producing one of many variations on a Greek scheme . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , being a typical Leo , he 'd have stuck to his guns — even if he was as miserable and unhappy as you were . |
| 18 | Even if he was less transgressive than the more notorious Ranters Coppe and Laurence Clarkson [ q.v. ] , he was associated with them and expressed a form of their Antinomianism at the height of Ranter activity . |
| 19 | With the CCTV and radio paging systems being interfaced , the night porter can be warned of an alarm situation even while he is away from his desk . |
| 20 | Even while he was desperately busy on Soldier 's Tale , he made time to help her by offering to design the costumes , writing to Hanns that he had told her ‘ you will be here to put finishing touches on to them . |
| 21 | Avinash Chandra 's canvases reveal that , even while he was still in India , he felt the attraction of Soutine and Van Gogh . |
| 22 | Stories abounded of his drunkenness and adventures with women , including attempted rapes , even before he was legally an adult . |
| 23 | Even before he was fully awake he felt the oppression of unpleasant memory , the threat of worse to come , although he could n't remember exactly what it was that he remembered . |
| 24 | Wycliffe watched her , dreamy-eyed ; it was impossible to say whether he was interested or not , even whether he was really listening . |
| 25 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 26 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 27 | One does n't see much of him even when he 's here . |
| 28 | The second problem is that , even when he is directly involved , Butman never gets under the skin of either characters or company . |
| 29 | As his later disastrous interventions in politics would make clear , he was a realist in quite a simple-minded sense , one who was concerned for public life , and believed ( like activists of the Left ) that a poet had the right and the duty to act in and upon that life quite directly ; whereas the oddly distant weariness of Eliot 's political pronouncements , even when he was most engagé as editor of True Criterion , revealed a man for whom the psychological reality of private torments took priority over any reality which announced itself as social and public . |
| 30 | It was not so , because he behaved in this strange and bearish fashion from the very beginning , even when he was most in love with me . |