Example sentences of "even [conj] people [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not just that access to the increased educational facilities is conditioned by social background , even where people achieve educational mobility , the economic structure has not provided a corresponding increase in jobs to match that mobility in occupational terms . |
| 2 | Even if people stay in the same rank order , the argument runs that the only way to make ‘ have-nots ’ into ‘ haves ’ is via economic growth , to which high taxation and transfers are seen as inimical . |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 'm a really f—ing good comedian and so , even if people think I 'm shit on The Word or Access , it does n't matter — I 'm a f—ing good comedian . |
| 4 | Even if paintings are unpopular or even if people think they are bad paintings for a while , they 're useful for art students . |
| 5 | As any good control theorist ( Box 1981a ; Hirschi 1969 ; Johnson 1979 ) knows , even if people have a high stake in conformity , this will not act as a brake on their criminal behaviour if they perceive — quite rightly in the case of executives contemplating corporate crime — that this stake will not be put at risk by undertaking such a shady but profitable enterprise . |
| 6 | Even if people have HIV they may be quite healthy . |
| 7 | Even if people do worry about energy use , how can they find out how a particular model performs ? |
| 8 | Even if people do die at home , before you can say ‘ Jack Robinson ’ the men from the funeral directors are round to take the deceased to the chapel of rest . |
| 9 | Furthermore , it is said , as native speakers of a language seem able to recognize correct and incorrect sentences , the idea of there being language rules exemplified in such sentences does seem to correspond to some kind of reality , even if people do not always speak according to these abstracted rules . |
| 10 | Even if people do n't know my name , they know I 'm someone . ’ |
| 11 | even if people do read these contracts , or these warranties , or these extended service contracts , they might not know what they 're buying even if it 's read to them , because it 's in a particular kind of jargon . |
| 12 | Our history and our traditions are in mining , and those traditions remain even when people move into other kinds of industry . |
| 13 | Even when people appear willing to talk to us about their difficulties , it is not always the real problems that they will initially present . |
| 14 | Even when people do go for walks , they tend to keep to public paths and these are often also severely eroded ( Coleman , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 16 | Part of the left 's problem , admits Mr Geremek , is that the communists have sullied the term ‘ socialist ’ beyond redemption , even though people respond favourably in opinion polls to such left-wing causes as social justice and equality . |
| 17 | Kurt Hager , the 77-year-old chief party ideologue who first indicated changes were on the way , insisted in Moscow yesterday : ‘ The leadership is united and will remain so , even though people keep on trying to invent disputes . ’ |