Example sentences of "even if it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 2 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 3 | Yet the pollution control sections of the agencies are ultimately impotent to secure the compliance of their colleagues in sewage treatment , lacking recourse to the legal sanction ( even if it were organizationally possible to prosecute fellow-workers ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Even if it were only a dozen , they could with megaton bombs inflict widespread devastation . |
| 12 | Even if it were only a few hundred pounds , five hundred , six , I would n't be standing here sick with worry … |
| 13 | But once you 'd lied — even if it were only by implication or simply by failing to deny something — you were forced to go on lying . |
| 14 | Such a policy would work even if it were fully announced , provided that expectations were formed in the way we have assumed . |
| 15 | Even if it were technically possible , Russia does not have the money to do it . |
| 16 | When Maman came back , even if it was tomorrow , the telling would no longer match the moment . |
| 17 | And I learned so many things , ’ she said , ‘ I am not sorry I did it , not at all , even if it was desperately hard work . ’ |
| 18 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 19 | So , if she did n't want to go anywhere , and she frequently did n't , she ran backwards ; even if it was straight into a prickly bush or a stinging cane . |
| 20 | It was the fact that people believed sexual liberation was going on — somewhere else — that was influential , even if it was not really happening . |
| 21 | So community autonomy was a contingent achievement of those who were more distant from central power , and who had a potential common loyalty against outsiders , even if it was not active all of the time . |
| 22 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 23 | In the typical pre-industrial village the community , even if it was not tribal , was based on mutual rights , duties and obligations . |
| 24 | Also , the water would dilute the virus to such an extent that even if it was not killed , there would be no risk of anyone becoming infected . |
| 25 | The latter is not entirely true , of course : the sociologists of the prison did provide evidence of causal significance in the effects of imprisonment , as we saw ( even if it was not , usually , their concern to do so ) . |
| 26 | And even if it was not it allowed both sides an extra nine months in which to strengthen their positions . |
| 27 | There was , however , published evidence to suggest that library and resource centre provision should be combined , at least in management terms , even if it was not always possible to bring them together physically . |
| 28 | It was at this moment , with a faint feeling that made the hair on his head prickle , that Coffin got the first intimation that even if it was not his case , he himself was in it . |
| 29 | Do n't worry , it 's not the joke , even if it was slightly sick . |
| 30 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |