Example sentences of "to [pron] even [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are occasions when teachers would want detailed feedback for diagnostic purposes or to evaluate their teaching , but an assessment scheme which is tightly based on a large number of criteria would compel teachers to work to them even when it might not be appropriate to do so . |
| 2 | Punk did n't mean shit to a palm tree to them even if it meant so much to us . |
| 3 | No traders were likely to come to the Hall that day or any other , and she could hardly risk being seen speaking to them even if they did . |
| 4 | Having fixed these ‘ volume ’ targets at the beginning of its period of office , a government would seek to hold to them even if the economy expanded faster or more slowly than expected , or if prices or wages rose . |
| 5 | The first group consists of what is sometimes known as the exceptions to the rule nemo dat quod non habet whereby a bona fide purchaser of goods from A commits no conversion but actually obtains a good title to them even though the goods really belonged to B and B never intended to allow A to sell them . |
| 6 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 7 | to me even if he wanted |
| 8 | I had met a man who made sense to me even though he was forty-six and I was fifteen . |
| 9 | And so he hugged his loneliness to himself even as he bemoaned it . |
| 10 | The theory gives an account of what it is for a belief to be luckily true , as follows : the extent to which a 's belief is luckily true is the extent to which even if it had been false , a would still have believed it , or if it were in changed circumstances still true , he would still believe it . |
| 11 | Annabel Hogan was polite to him even if her maid was n't . |
| 12 | It was an instinctive reaching out to him even when he was a stranger . |
| 13 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 14 | A counsellor said that many of her clients would say , ‘ If you can do it , so can I ’ , and a physiotherapist found that the misconception that all physiotherapists are very fit helped because her patients assumed that this applied to her even though she was disabled . |
| 15 | All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible . |
| 16 | My mam 'd er well not m my mother all the mams , would be sitting there with the kids with their feet in the water to get used to it even when they were a few weeks old . |
| 17 | Now we knew they had accepted the box as their home and would probably come back to it even if they were allowed out in the open . |
| 18 | What justifies us in attributing heat and cold to material things is our perceiving them to be hot and cold ; and they could still feel hot and cold to us even if we never felt hot or cold ourselves . |