Example sentences of "even if his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old tiger himself pronounced it a good idea , even if his friends had to listen in a state of uncharacteristic sobriety . |
| 2 | Even if his history is half-baked , there is nothing amateurish about Mr Severin 's voyage . |
| 3 | The total net National Insurance bill for a self employed partner , even if his earnings exceed the upper earnings limit , is therefore £1,060.50 . |
| 4 | Otis Rush is still here , even if his talents are diminished , while Buddy Guy seems , if anything , to be playing younger and wilder every year . |
| 5 | ‘ A tough but decent bastard ’ was their view , even if his inability to make small-talk still riled the staff nurses . |
| 6 | HIS WEATHER forecast had been right even if his poll prediction remained unconfirmed . |
| 7 | Hackney developed with surprising speed , even if his defence under the high ball did tend to have the watcher on the edge of his seat . |
| 8 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 9 | But it is clear that Eisenhower was not convinced that this was an opportune moment for any Western powers to risk a direct clash with Egypt even if his warnings to Eden to this effect were not perhaps sufficiently numerous . |
| 10 | Even if his heart is already damaged , your husband is wrong . |
| 11 | He weighs more than Joe Frazier but in these days of the super tanker heavyweights like Bowe and Lennox Lewis , he 's lacking in competitive firepower , even if his heart is totally disproportionate to his size . |
| 12 | There was no questioning the fact that Horsley was an extremely successful businessman , even if his clothes sometimes looked more like Country Life . |
| 13 | His intentions had been honourable , even if his behaviour had left something to be desired . |
| 14 | But even if his music does n't change , he needs to break that cosy little cocoon just a little bit , before the naive becomes the really , really offensive … he should get out more , basically . |
| 15 | An antidepressant should never be the sole form of treatment a patient is receiving , even if his illness appears to be entirely of an endogenous variety . |
| 16 | Her own lips twitched and , even if his smile had n't made it , try as she might , she could n't hold hers in . |
| 17 | whose nobility of soul never stoops to treachery even if his life or livelihood is at stake , |
| 18 | He could never penetrate , not even if his life depended on it , for he is sure that their nether mouths contain teeth , and that once his limb was inside them , they would bite it off . ’ |
| 19 | Evangelically he strove , even if his Archdeacon had given up . |
| 20 | Even if his English permitted him to understand her answer , his ego would not . |
| 21 | Of the broadly contemporary foreign writers , the German bishop Thietmar of Merseburg , who died in 1018 , is mainly valuable on the Danish conquest , while Adam of Bremen , working about forty years after Cnut 's death , is a major source on his dealings in Scandinavia and with the German empire , even if his reliability can be questioned , as we noticed when dealing with his story of Swegen Forkbeard 's exile from Denmark . |
| 22 | Yet although Haydon mocked his ‘ passionate timidity ’ there was plenty of action in the amatory field — no ambiguity there , even if his style fell short ofByronic . |
| 23 | That was stardom and Kenneth Williams was a star , even if his appeal was mostly on home territory . |
| 24 | But even if his men fail to topple deadly rivals St Helens in the final at Old Trafford and fall just short of the Grand Slam , Monie 's achievements are still unlikely to ever be equalled . |
| 25 | After all , even if his people as a whole are suffering privations and losses , and ca n't buy all the things they want , it does n't affect him and his ruling clique . |
| 26 | She tried to tell herself not to be afraid , for was not this Dr Neil , whose gentleness and compassion she had often witnessed , even if his tongue was sharp ? |
| 27 | Wordsworth had been exhausted by his efforts as early as 1804 ( see Ode to Duty ) , and he would probably have returned to conventional pieties and religion even if his brother 's death had not accelerated to process . |
| 28 | But nobody had the right to be that nasty ; not even if his backside was black and blue . |
| 29 | Even if his explanation was true , it did n't excuse the other counts against him . |
| 30 | The claim of the ‘ good ’ characters to the Wagenburg treasure is no better justified than that of the rival party under Ellis , even if his murder of a secret service man does inspire Jonathan Mansel , who makes a third with Chandos and Hanbury , and who heard the dying man 's last words , to engage upon the adventure : |