Example sentences of "even [conj] we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where we have overcome difficulties of technology and resources , as , for example , in producing multi-media stacks using Apple 's HyperCard ( or SuperCard ) , there is market resistance to purchasing what might otherwise come as public domain or ‘ shareware ’ and little that can be done to prevent illegal copying and resulting saturation of a limited market before costs are recovered . |
| 2 | ‘ And Robina would not take a taxi , even if we had seen one . ’ |
| 3 | You know , even if we had lost the Cup , it would still have been a very good year for French players . |
| 4 | I signed a two-year contract and would have honoured that , even if we had missed the play-offs . |
| 5 | We visited Oslo Fjord with only six 250lb bombs and that would not do much damage even if we had found a target ( which we did not ) . |
| 6 | Having caused the longest recession since the 1930s , does the Prime Minister agree with the words of his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer , who said last month : ’ the policy would not have been different even if we had known the outcome . ’ ? |
| 7 | Even if we 've had a fire and if it 's burnt itself out then we will we will call the fire service to make sure it is out . |
| 8 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 9 | The frightening thing is , we 'd have got an hour 's highlights even if we 'd lost … |
| 10 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 11 | That 's important so we can feed bits of information to the kidnappers — even if we have to invent some . ’ |
| 12 | Despite modern central heating systems , which heat our homes from cellar to attic , nothing can quite replace that warm glow — even if we have to recreate it with ceramic ‘ coals ’ and gas-fired flames … |
| 13 | ‘ Even if we have to drag him kicking and screaming before the Lord . |
| 14 | However , it is interesting to try to make some estimates even if we have to accept that they are , at best , only crude guidelines . |
| 15 | We 'll have our man , even if we have to row across and pick him up ourselves . |
| 16 | Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her . |
| 17 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 18 | Even before we had left the environs of Mount Pleasant airport , we had seen upland geese grazing unconcernedly alongside the runway , and we crossed creeks where small parties of speckled teal were swimming . |
| 19 | Even before we had left the outskirts of Makassar , Abu grinned into my face and asked , " In your country , chickens fly ? " |
| 20 | Then there 's Helen , who knows everybody and is highly respected to say nothing of Betty , who will praise us up to the skies even before we 've spayed one cat . ’ |
| 21 | It is extraordinary that that has been resisted even before we have received the first results . |
| 22 | even before we have mentioned it well I know |
| 23 | It is our task to attempt to specify the constraints on spelling under which they were working , always admitting that even after we have done this , there may well be residues of apparent randomness that we can not explain . |
| 24 | It has always been my hope that he did n't trouble to bestir himself even when we had gone out of sight . |
| 25 | Many feminists will come this far with me but still shy away from the idea of pay for childcare , even when we 've clarified that it 's not the same demand as Wages for Housework . |
| 26 | But , even when we have made allowance for the exaggerated impressions of a boy of fifteen , recollected many years later , it may be taken as evidence that Lanfranc and his handful of monks from Bec and Caen met not only with hostility , but also with a good deal of successful resistance . |
| 27 | ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’ |
| 28 | The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship . |
| 29 | The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship . |
| 30 | But even when we have allowed for this , there is no ready way of defining the category ‘ art ’ from these undoubted and general human perceptions , which we are bound to recognize as more widely applicable and thus not reducible to a specialization . |