Example sentences of "the [adj] even if " in BNC.

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1 The temptation is always to deny this rather than confront it , to revert to plans on paper , stick with the safe rather than the exciting even if , at the end of the day with this route , little is achieved .
2 In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ .
3 Ehrenpreis 's approach , while fruitful in some respects , tends to treat the poor as an object to be observed from the outside even if it is with ‘ rapt interest ’ .
4 It so happened that two different remedies were sought in this case , but the decision on the issue of standing would have been the same even if the applicant had sought two declarations in different terms .
5 He speaks quietly , pleasantly , with an even delivery that would sound the same even if he was threatening your life .
6 the shopping and the cooking and the sa , she made a remark , abo , and I said well it 's always the same even if you go out to work it 's still your job
7 ‘ It would be difficult to invent a more complicated system for taxing the self-employed even if one set out with that very objective , ’ Mr Lamont said .
8 The ‘ mature ’ writer not only survives those renunciations , they help constitute his art , an art which will always finally take priority over the plight of the other even if , as was the case with Gide , it also succeeds in mitigating it .
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