Example sentences of "even if [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 2 | In fact , even if one considers just those with jobs , only four business areas employed 10 per cent or more of students with work , and only seven had 5 per cent or above . |
| 3 | Schmenner 's analogy is not a good one , even if one sympathizes with his sentiment . |
| 4 | Even if one takes a sceptical view of the applicability of the laws of war to nuclear weapons , it does not follow that the laws of war are irrelevant in the nuclear age . |
| 5 | Even if one takes a minimalist definition of feminism , the equality of women and men , is this the case . |
| 6 | However , even if one takes the view that King 's Cross is essential , there are better and more appropriate ways of building and developing a new station at King 's Cross than the one that British Rail has effectively forced upon us . |
| 7 | Even if one agrees with Aristotle that true equality consists in treating unequals unequally , this merely raises the apparently insoluble question of how it can be practically achieved . |
| 8 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
| 9 | Anyway , these must not be dismissed with hasty suggestions ; it is extremely important to my mind not to discredit the zoophile cause by sounding idiotic and to take great notice of the knowledgeable people who are concerned with managing these creatures even if one does not like their attitudes . |
| 10 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 11 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 12 | Even if one does not believe in the principle of intellectual conservation of quantity , the same amount of study time is being poured into different shaped vessels , one tall and narrow , the other flat and wide . |
| 13 | Even if one does know that a compound exists there is no guarantee that the lexical information will be available . |
| 14 | Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals . |
| 15 | Even if one ignores any effects on the fetus and neonate , what about the mother ? |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ? |
| 17 | Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group . |
| 18 | Even if one gets different results , they are still publishable without necessarily running into head-on confrontation with the earlier claims . |
| 19 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 20 | Still , even if one avoids mathematics , some of the ideas are unfamiliar and difficult to explain . |
| 21 | Even if one postulates continent-wide uplift to produce the conglomerate in such widely separated places , it is very difficult to explain why the source rock is also so remarkably similar from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 22 | Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent . |
| 23 | Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns . |
| 24 | But one is narrowly neutral even if one provides the Reds with normal food supplies . |
| 25 | In this case , even if one reinforces the claim by supposing that littering is illegal , the answer must be No . |
| 26 | Even if one has a stimulus of physiologically realistic intensity , that does n't necessarily mean that one can readily interpret the effects of stimulation , because there are still two problems . |
| 27 | Even if one has good scientific ideas , it is never enough just to publish them : the world will never beat a pathway to the door of the scientific recluse ; and all that the Avogadro or the Mendel can hope for is posthumous fame . |
| 28 | Even if one accepts this view of the social role of a doctrine of justice , and gives it the priority Rawls assigns to it , his conclusions are not supported by his arguments for at least three reasons . |
| 29 | Even if one accepts that auditors are capable of providing information about business risks that is useful to investors and other parties , it is questionable whether the benefits of extending the auditor 's role in this direction are likely to outweigh the costs . |
| 30 | Even if one accepts that the thesis accounts for why blacks are overrepresented in reactive activities such as boxing and soccer , and underrepresented in self-paced sports such as golf and swimming , it does not explain why blacks do not excel in such reactive sports as motor racing , tennis , fencing , squash or even skiing ! |