Example sentences of "even [conj] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unquestionably it was ancient Rome 's greatest legacy to the medieval world , greater probably even than its literature and its poetry . |
| 2 | On this , as on other issues , the outcome of the Government actions has been good , even if its motives for seeking the reforms are suspect . |
| 3 | It was impossible to walk across the top and ignore the great panorama of London , even if its lights were obscured by the rain , even if the downpour was steadily soaking you . |
| 4 | East German tenure of such property would be secured even if its ownership reverted to the original owners . |
| 5 | An accident can result in some form of disablement or disfigurement and , even if its effects are only temporary , the human suffering involved can be intense . |
| 6 | By the late twelfth century the Papal State as a separate entity had been long established as a notion even if its boundaries were in a continual state of flux . |
| 7 | The two-hour spectacular took their breath away , even if its plot was not that far removed from the original . |
| 8 | Soviet leaders have given no indication , moreover , that they are prepared to abandon the PDPA and apparently expect its apparatus to be retained in post-settlement Afghanistan even if its role is reduced and its monopoly of power relinquished . |
| 9 | The law recognizes this and demands that care continue , even if its nature changes . |
| 10 | However , even if its impact has been modest , interactive video has at least helped to establish the effectiveness of multimedia . |
| 11 | Even if its policy advice role were reduced , the nation still needs managers of the best quality to run the public services . |
| 12 | Similarly , not every trade union liaises efficiently with its members , even if its officials are trying hard to defend jobs in their negotiations with the company . |
| 13 | The conclusion of the first section was that a just government can exist even if its subjects are not bound by a general obligation to obey it . |
| 14 | Even if its efficacy proves to be confined to symptomatic behaviour , and not cognitive improvements , this may well provide knock-on benefits in other treatment areas . |
| 15 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 16 | An alternative to dates is to use a term like Romantic , even if its meaning seems to alter from writer to writer . |
| 17 | He rejected hot methods of evangelism by mission and believed that quiet rational exposition was the true Christian way even if its results were not spectacular . |
| 18 | It is understood that SFA regards an agreement as in writing for this purpose even if its terms are set out in a terms of business letter accepted merely by conduct ( which is especially important where the intermediary is not a private customer ) . |
| 19 | Even if its intentions have not always been realized , the second half of the 1980s has nevertheless witnessed renewed determination by central government to exercise greater direction over local authorities . |
| 20 | The Soviet Union was too big a problem even to begin thinking about seriously at that stage ; a military superpower still , even if its economy was falling apart and its politics were in uncertain flux from one-party dictatorship towards a multi-party democracy . |
| 21 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 22 | What really amazed me was the way the hawk seemed to know out of which hole the rabbit was going to pop even before its ears appeared . |
| 23 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 24 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 25 | The moral code here was clear , even as its application was uneven . |
| 26 | To return to the case of the labour aristocracy , even when its position is out of line with its structural determination , ‘ this structural determination … is necessarily reflected in working-class practices ( ‘ class instinct ’ as Lenin used to say ) — practices that can always be discerned beneath its bourgeois ‘ discourse ’ , etc ’ . |
| 27 | For example , since boys are well adapted to tasks which require strenuous physical activity , there is a danger , if this behaviour is overgeneralized , that they are encouraged to develop the appearance of strength even when its exercise is not needed . |
| 28 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 29 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 30 | It produces wine of great finesse and penetrating perfume which can dominate an entire cuvée even when its presence might only be a small proportion of the whole . |