Example sentences of "and [adj] even [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desperate and dry even when it is hot . |
| 2 | In defence he was steady and reliable even if , in a way , his sophisticated refined play was out of its element in the hurly-burly of 3rd Division South football ; Jimmy always appeared to be better suited to a more leisurely pace than that which usually pertained at Selhurst Park in the mid-1950s . |
| 3 | Interestingly , they sound radically different , and different even before you plug them in . |
| 4 | And it is their response to each other 's movements and their own enjoyment in dance that makes their behaviour appear natural and spontaneous even when they perform difficult technical feats . |
| 5 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 6 | Those who go quiet and coy even when offended need to work on this . |
| 7 | Living without Felipe was lonely , hard , and the city did really seem to be grey and cold even though the days were warm and long . |
| 8 | At tea-ti me the next day he picked up Catherine at her flat , noticing that she was looking rested and pretty even if he was feeling jaded and disaffected . |
| 9 | In studying Epicurus , Gassendi found confirmation for the embryonic idea of the Exercises , that sense-experience might give us something worthwhile and valuable even though it can not give us knowledge of necessary causes and of the natures of things . |
| 10 | The monument is currently half dismantled and unprotected even though work on it has been stopped ; grottos , galleries and buildings could be ruined . |
| 11 | If this exhibition means to report on the whole of twentieth-century American modernism then it has left out a great deal in the period between the two world wars ; work that is historically important and good even though sometimes ‘ provincial ’ with respect to Europe . |
| 12 | A piece of wall that is clean and firm and decent even when the paper has been stripped away from it ! ’ |
| 13 | For one thing , it is quite possible that people may feel free and independent even when they are actually being manipulated . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 16 | He had taken her off the streets and given her a home because he was besotted with her ; the home that Sarah 's mother had kept clean and cheerful even when her health was failing . |
| 17 | In Northern Ireland it 's against the law to leave your vehicle unlocked and unattended even if you 're just popping into a shop . |
| 18 | Social workers defined their main purpose when investigating referrals of alleged sexual abuse as the evaluation of child care risk ; judgement about children 's well-being was justifiable and necessary even if the reasons which motivated referral were unproven or no longer relevant . |
| 19 | Curiously , the clause in Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes was almost certainly a penalty and unenforceable even if it had been properly incorporated ( see paragraph 14–13 below ) . |
| 20 | I could probably still have got across , but as I have said , the stones of the causeway were thick with seaweed , and treacherous even when exposed . |
| 21 | According to one study that utilized multivariate analysis , its effect is large and significant even after many other factors have been taken into account . |