Example sentences of "even if it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 31 | But a community that accepts integrity has a vehicle for organic change , even if it is not always wholly effective , that it would not otherwise have at all . |
| 32 | This process seems to have been handled badly , even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment . |
| 33 | ‘ It costs around £8 a year and the main benefit is that if you 're involved in a car accident , even if it 's not your fault , the company will pursue the claim for you , ’ he explains . |
| 34 | Even if it 's not used , it 's a good piece of equipment to have and would help some serious writers — Iris Murdoch , for one — not to fall into dreadful traps of bathos and sententiousness . |
| 35 | Johansson is driving the race of his life and he knows he is in charge of the championship , even if it 's not going to be his . |
| 36 | Include anything you feel you want even if it 's not realistic or sensible . |
| 37 | If the id is completely in control , and in psychotics for example , you often get the feeling the id is in control , they will eat the cake even if it 's not there . |
| 38 | The time is always right for a good idea , even if it 's not your own . |
| 39 | And e e e even if it 's not general th there may be something in the argument this , this , this was what was happening in |
| 40 | Play allowed to continue , forwards towards , he 's had a good game tonight if it 's even if it 's not his regular position he 's been pushed there by and as a result it 's a free kick to Shrewsbury Town . |
| 41 | First , because the lives and experiences of many elderly people prove it is true ; and second , because it would be important , even necessary , for the counsellor and the counsellee to believe it even if it were not true . |
| 42 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 43 | Even if it were not , there would be other problems , such as whether a book read by millions would count equally , in the corpus , with a private letter ; whether some publications ( eg literary magazines ) would be weightier , in determining the norm for the language , than others . |
| 44 | And in this case it seems likely that even if it were not for the depressed state of aggregate demand in the British market , the commodities produced by Talbot at Linwood would not have generated ‘ sufficient ’ profit for Peugeot . |
| 45 | Even if it were not already obvious , the concluding words , ‘ or other intellectual property , ’ show that the ‘ commercial information ’ which the definition contemplates must be information of the same type ( ‘ ejusdem generis ’ ) as the other examples of intellectual property which are listed in subsection ( 5 ) . |
| 46 | Even if it were not a leading objective of his tour , his natural intelligent curiosity , and his conscientiousness on behalf of his readers overcame any notional hierarchy of information . |
| 47 | Secondly , even if it were not missing , manual manipulation of large numbers of records is a very time consuming task , and hardly one that the recruitment team will have time to do during busy periods . |
| 48 | It was the fact that people believed sexual liberation was going on — somewhere else — that was influential , even if it was not really happening . |
| 49 | So community autonomy was a contingent achievement of those who were more distant from central power , and who had a potential common loyalty against outsiders , even if it was not active all of the time . |
| 50 | Indeed it could be argued that a dynastic conflict involving the interests of the Houses of Orléans , Bourbon , Bonaparte and Hohenzollern was the means chosen to bring down the Empire , even if it was not really the cause . |
| 51 | In the typical pre-industrial village the community , even if it was not tribal , was based on mutual rights , duties and obligations . |
| 52 | Also , the water would dilute the virus to such an extent that even if it was not killed , there would be no risk of anyone becoming infected . |
| 53 | The latter is not entirely true , of course : the sociologists of the prison did provide evidence of causal significance in the effects of imprisonment , as we saw ( even if it was not , usually , their concern to do so ) . |
| 54 | And even if it was not it allowed both sides an extra nine months in which to strengthen their positions . |
| 55 | There was , however , published evidence to suggest that library and resource centre provision should be combined , at least in management terms , even if it was not always possible to bring them together physically . |
| 56 | It was at this moment , with a faint feeling that made the hair on his head prickle , that Coffin got the first intimation that even if it was not his case , he himself was in it . |