Example sentences of "even [subord] [pron] were not " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would wash up the same way even if they were not watched . |
| 2 | They also recognised the company 's unwavering dedication to finding and supporting independent groups , even if they were not always the most professional marketeers . |
| 3 | The tensions were bound to create difficulties , which came to the fore as national problems of economic management became clearer , even if they were not simply the consequence of those problems ( Rhodes , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | I do — I mean , I should even if they were not my own . |
| 5 | These men could at least enter imaginatively into the spirit of a male institution such as the manyatta : there was something familiar about it all , even if they were not quite sure what , and this familiarity contributed to the ease they felt in the company of the Masai . |
| 6 | But the decisions made fascinating reading and would presumably still be dragged into any legal proceedings today , even if they were not regarded as binding . |
| 7 | It had ivy-clad buildings that looked old even if they were not , rolling lawns , elm trees , a small lake and a chapel with a portico . |
| 8 | Centrifugal launchers did at least recognise a genuine need , even if they were not themselves the solution . |
| 9 | The failure of a small group of teachers ( who even if they were not professionally inept were certainly politically naïve ) was used to provide ammunition for an attack on schools whose approach to learning diverged from the traditional . |
| 10 | The captain and the chief and second mates received cargo allotments of value , but officers of junior rank were unlikely to make very substantial profits , even if they were not forced to share their allocation of cargo space with the commander in order to obtain a place at all . |
| 11 | The Chinese , even if they were not spies , were certainly not-be trusted , for they were evidently too cowardly to be relied on as stokers to get up sufficient steam to escape German U-boats , which should serve as a warning to " yellow-loving shipowners . " |
| 12 | Even if they were not satisfied with their history taking , their analysis of their performance , the difficulties or constraints perceived , and ideas for improvement are the most important material for assessment in this task . |
| 13 | All sorts of additional class niceties were well known to travellers , even if they were not hallowed by signposts . |
| 14 | Under the basic criteria for the restoration of Latvian citizenship and naturalization , approved by the Supreme Council by 93 votes to 30 with seven abstentions , citizenship would be granted automatically to anyone who had held Latvian citizenship before 1940 ( the start of Soviet occupation ) , and to their descendants , even if they were not currently resident in Latvia . |
| 15 | Even if they were not consciously doing so , feelings of risk may have acted as an important retrieval cue in the context . |
| 16 | Each of those payments would have been made even if they were not lawfully in possession … |
| 17 | Even if they were not now playing in Durham 's shadow , Yorkshire would be hard pressed to make out a good financial case for quitting Acklam Park . |
| 18 | We had to be neat and tidy with our ties properly tied , our shoes laced up , and he liked us to look wide-awake and busy even if we were not . |
| 19 | Such a move would probably be ruled out even if we were not members of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 20 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 21 | In his first , Lucky Jim , there had been an offensive character called Bertrand , a painter and a pacifist who preferred his name to be pronounced in the French manner : clearly a late derivative of Bloomsbury and a poseur of the worst water ; and even if he were not a rival-in-love of the hero , that ( one feels ) would be all that needed to be said about him . |
| 22 | Not only was her employer old enough to be her father , but he was a married man , and even if he were not , such a relationship would be totally foreign to her upbringing , if not her very nature . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What seems abundantly clear is that even if there were not the three months ' residence requirement in the case of Northern Ireland , it would still be necessary , in order to qualify to vote , for a person to have there a ‘ residence ’ in which he spent a substantial part of the year . |