Example sentences of "even [conj] [noun prp] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where TNCs have been attracted by regional policy to locate new investments of the 1980s in assisted areas , the yield of additional jobs has been meagre . |
| 2 | Even once Cinzia had bullied one of the assistants into offering Zen a discount , the item she had selected came to about three times what he had reckoned to spend , but he paid up . |
| 3 | She would be hurting no one because , even if Rune had lied and was still involved in some emotional way with Lotta , the Swedish girl had already assumed they were lovers and obviously accepted them in that role without suffering undue pain . |
| 4 | Even if IBM has a relatively weak market share in the burgeoning software business it is still very comfortably number one ; and while some of the Japanese giants and European champions occupy high positions in the software league , the huge array of US software insurgents ( led by such companies as Lotus , Microsoft and Sun ) has no equivalent elsewhere . |
| 5 | Even if Sonauto had not finally decided to stay in racing and Ruggia had spent the summer at home , his contract would have demanded that Sonauto pay his wages for the 1991 season . |
| 6 | There was a feeling , however , that even if Scotland had nudged ahead , it was only a matter of time before England got their act together . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , ’ my master continued briskly , ‘ even if Waldegrave had bolted the door behind him and , let us say , he fell in a dead faint or drunken stupor , Sir John , can you explain why Vulcan would pound his body so mercilessly ? ’ |
| 8 | Even if Cherith had been genuinely in love with me , how long do you thing we 'd have stayed together ? |
| 9 | The author knows ( even if Akhsharumov has to remind him ) that the natural man in his hero has been laid low by the combined psychic onset of crime and punishment . |
| 10 | The place will still be flooded with more arms than any other part of the globe , even if Iraq has none . |
| 11 | Even if Piłsudski had been a socialist , he would still have been an independent Polish socialist in Moscow 's eyes . |
| 12 | Indeed , much of the evidence suggests that , even if Mansell had not actually braked early , he had perhaps lifted his foot from the throttle , which has much the same effect in an F1 car . |
| 13 | Still was n't enough goals though even if Poland had beaten Holland , England still would n't have qualified because they needed , because er the opposition got a goal , they need to be , they had to win by seven clear goals so that meant they had to win eight one , not seven one , you see . |
| 14 | Even if Tommy had been right on both counts and Charlie voiced those opinions , it would only be his word against that of an officer and a gentleman . |
| 15 | Even if Robbie had been in the mood for laughter , it would have been a cynical mirth . |
| 16 | And even if Harvey had written just about the whole of Amaranth 's damn speech , she would , were it to be successful , be more in need of his favours than Harvey 's . |
| 17 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 18 | Even if Ellie had been quite and utterly sober , she would have still found the clothes which were paraded after lunch for her sole benefit in one of the salons reserved for such occasions quite irresistible . |
| 19 | That 's the end of the game , that 's the end of it because on on erm once h Holland needed to lose right , they had to lose , Holland , and er Poland needed to beat Holland and England had to win by a seven goal majority I E seven nil or eight one , seven one would n't have been enough even if Holland had lost |
| 20 | Carinish Court had aroused some people 's envy : that at least was true , even if Ralph had perhaps been mistaken about Johnny Redburn 's reaction to the place . |
| 21 | Evgeny Onegin would have been written even if Pushkin had never existed , claims Brik , just as America would have been discovered without Columbus . |
| 22 | Even if Steen had ever had such intentions , the events of the last week made it clear that he had changed his mind . |
| 23 | Even if Germany had been willing to risk the assembly of major formations of ex-Soviet prisoners , Vlasov had no interest in these ethnically based units . |
| 24 | Being under constant surveillance , there could be no further runs across Heath and Common to Aunt Marjorie 's , even if Clarissa had stayed on . |
| 25 | It was unlikely that the boy had got out , even if DeVore had n't taken him . |
| 26 | Even if Mahmoud had refused , would it have mattered so much ? |
| 27 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 28 | She lived in Half Moon Crescent ( he had checked the number and the street before he 'd started out on his trek , so that even if Slater had lost or forgotten her number , she would not be lost to him ) . |
| 29 | That the revolution must succeed does not , of course , follow from the economic argument alone , even if Marx has got it right . |
| 30 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |