Example sentences of "even if it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it falls down after that , they 're alright . |
| 2 | Answer two : a crime novel may still be crime fiction , as opposed to pure fiction , even if it abandons altogether that prime staple of blueprint detective fiction , the murder puzzle . |
| 3 | ‘ Not even if it turns out to be an intruder ? ’ asked Pascoe . |
| 4 | Hence , Freeman is refuted since presumably other explanations are conceivable , even if it turns out they are n't very interesting . |
| 5 | Unlike billiards , however , rather than a clean ‘ hit or miss ’ , the repulsion of the two positively charged nuclei causes a curvature in the ion 's path even if it passes to the side of the atom . |
| 6 | Yeah but even if it says virgin it can still |
| 7 | Therefore , we should be very wary indeed of ( e ) and ( f ) types of statements unless we are sure that there is something really negative that has to be exposed and which , even if it hurts people in the process , is nevertheless necessary . |
| 8 | Even if it meets these conditions , it will not be entitled to the concessions unless , at no time during the year , has it , or any member of the group of which it is a member , been a public company , a banking or insurance company or an authorised person under the Financial Services Acts and , if it is a parent company , unless the group qualifies as a small or medium-sized group . |
| 9 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 10 | I hope that the succeeding chapters will go at least some way towards building flesh and sinew , face and character — even if it happens to be , as on Tafahi island , a North German face and character — on to the dry , lifeless bones of economists ' figures . |
| 11 | It is too early yet to say how useful the discourse approach will be , but even if it achieves nothing else , it can at least be claimed to have shown the inadequacy of attempting to analyse the function of intonation on the basis of isolated sentences or tone-units , removed from their linguistic and situational context . |
| 12 | Picture yourself having chosen each option in turn , and see whether it feels good , even if it feels scary . |
| 13 | It never happens completely spontaneously , even if it feels that way . |
| 14 | If the decision is illegal it can be quashed ; otherwise the court can not ( with one exception ) intervene , even if it thinks the decision to be wrong in some respect . |
| 15 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 16 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply . |
| 17 | IT IS CURIOUS how an intervening bid , even if it does not have any great pre-emptive value , can throw a spanner in the opponents ' works . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's very difficult to do because if you are n't careful you just write down a series of platitudes , but I think that a statement of aims and beliefs is very necessary even if it does look platitudinous . ’ |
| 19 | Cricket can be boring when Botham behaves , and snooker needs Alex Higgins even if it does not like to say so . |
| 20 | Nothing wrong with that , you might think , even if it does represent more than 70 times last year 's earnings — a price-earnings ratio of Japanese proportions . |
| 21 | Syria is unlikely to block an attack on Iraq , even if it does not join it . |
| 22 | However distasteful it may be to some people , this does at least provide a rational explanation for the behaviour of those bystanders , even if it does not excuse them . |
| 23 | A reputation for being fair , just , reasonable and courageous is worth winning even if it does mean occasionally upsetting some people . |
| 24 | Even if it does not lead one to obey authority more often than one would otherwise , it affects one 's reasons and the significance of one 's actions . |
| 25 | If you are involved in a nanny share , depending on the financial arrangements , l it may be viewed as a business even if it does not feel like one ! |
| 26 | Marriage , even if it does not rest for its validity on the capacity for ‘ normal heterosexual intercourse ’ , has an intrinsic quality of bisexuality . |
| 27 | Even if it does , on whom can the trust be charged ? |
| 28 | Even if it does not we will need to replace ageing power stations . |
| 29 | Even if it does , the idea that it penetrates the gut wall , leaving tiny holes , is questionable . |
| 30 | This is an enjoyable collection , even if it does seem to lack the careful planning so evident in the rest of this outstanding series . ( ) |