Example sentences of "even [conj] only [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A great lightening , even if only temporary , of the burden of her father 's inexorable expectations .
2 The other Coffin , the owner of the house in Mouncy Street , the almost-lover of two ladies , Gabriel and Rose , was living with greater intensity , even if only part-time .
3 Even if only two or three people from the media attend , it may be a good moment to organize an interview , making sure to flesh out the story with quotations from a range of people .
4 Even if only one of you has a paid job , the death of the other would almost certainly deal a severe financial blow to the household .
5 A spreadsheet can be recalculated immediately even if only one figure changes , or if many change at the same time .
6 If when the main code is read in it becomes scrambled , this will prevent the right checksum value from being obtained , even if only one binary digit has been affected .
7 Even if you rarely stretch the G 's exceptional 2.9-ton towing limit , or test the new drivetrain which keeps you mobile even if only one wheel has any grip , at least you can savour the high , commanding view every time you slip behind the wheel .
8 I argue that even if only one process were involved , the outcome would depend on conditions and , since conditions vary , so must the behavioural outcome .
9 It is as applicable to the running of the parish council as it is to the leadership of IBM and I hope that you find in this book something , even if only one thing , that you can apply and that will help you gain the results you seek .
10 It will , however , mean that a larger quantity of data has to be transferred into main storage for each update operation , even if only one record in the block is required .
11 But even if only one in four follows us , we will have nearly thirty thousand people under our command . ’
12 Even if only one peg in a hundred pegger is good enough to give them that chance .
13 However , if the chosen third party is an arbitrator , the court can extend time if undue hardship would otherwise result ( Arbitration Act 1950 , s27 ) , even if only one party has the right to refer the matter to arbitration ( Pittalis v Sherefettin [ 1986 ] QB 868 ) .
14 Even if only one person uses that document it should be in the precedent bank .
15 Even if only one innocent person 's life is saved , it will be worthwhile .
16 The size of a semi-empirical calculation is thus much less than that of an ab initio calculation for the same molecule , even if only first row elements are concerned .
17 Moreover , as Herman explains , the boundaries between control and constraint are overlapping , since ‘ [ a ] constraint is a form of control even if only negative in exercise , as it shapes the decisions made by limiting the scope of choice .
18 The point of all this was of course to reinforce the belief that the after-life was a paradise , even if only achievable with certainty through death in battle , and thus to improve the combativeness of the assassins .
19 The systems of communication of our primate ancestors presumably consisted of words and short sentences ( but what I have to say would hold even if only gestural sequences were involved ) .
20 Yet with any luck we shall have a dozen bold new hens to lay eggs for us next year - and even if only half of them manage to emulate their mothers in the matter of bringing up families , by mid-summer we shall be positively over-run .
21 Even if only half that much were needed , a 20-tonne lorry would have to be loaded somewhere every eight minutes , day and night , for nine months .
22 Even if only half these elderly people find that the withdrawal of tax relief makes private medical insurance too expensive for them and , consequently , revert once more to relying solely on the NHS for treatment , the cost to the nation of providing this care would be approximately £136 million .
23 Even if only half the entries were true , or nearly true , Earth had influenced just about every aspect of the worlds from which it was divided .
24 Even if only half the story were true , he was still worried .
25 Soaking items awaiting cleaning can be beneficial even if only cold water is used .
26 They found that the same pattern of results was obtained even when only one eye fixation per slide was allowed , always on the central detail .
27 They interpret the studies as showing that not only are central details more likely to be attended to in the arousal condition , but that since even when only one eye fixation is permitted the same results occur , there must be differences in the processing of arousing material in addition to the original attentional effect .
28 Even when only historic costs are being recognized there are still subjective judgements which have to be made to produce balance sheets and income statements : how much depreciation to charge ; how to calculate the closing stock figure ; what provision to make for doubtful debts , etc .
29 BANGOR fly to Cyprus today with a complete 18-man first team squad even though only 16 players will be needed for the Cup Winners Cup second leg against Apoel Nicosia .
30 Most strikingly , fully 57 per cent of module failures occurred in term 3 , even though only 38 per cent of assessments occurred in that term .
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