Example sentences of "even [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Therefore , we should be very wary indeed of ( e ) and ( f ) types of statements unless we are sure that there is something really negative that has to be exposed and which , even if it hurts people in the process , is nevertheless necessary . |
| 32 | Even if it meets these conditions , it will not be entitled to the concessions unless , at no time during the year , has it , or any member of the group of which it is a member , been a public company , a banking or insurance company or an authorised person under the Financial Services Acts and , if it is a parent company , unless the group qualifies as a small or medium-sized group . |
| 33 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 34 | I hope that the succeeding chapters will go at least some way towards building flesh and sinew , face and character — even if it happens to be , as on Tafahi island , a North German face and character — on to the dry , lifeless bones of economists ' figures . |
| 35 | In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed . |
| 36 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 37 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |
| 38 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 39 | But even if it had been believed in Paris , there was a further complication in that the actual renunciation had come not from Leopold but from his father ( whom the Paris papers now labelled ‘ Father Anthony ’ ) , which in itself seemed a curious procedure . |
| 40 | Nobody could have been better qualified to construct a consensus , even if it had to be temporary , from the new and angular alternatives that were now being proposed for the future of secondary schooling . |
| 41 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 42 | And , even if it had to be done by a department , could it be done with fewer people in a different and more managerially efficient way ? |
| 43 | The final stage in the experimental procedure would have been vacuum distillation of the amine , at which point having bis(azide) present would have certainly led to an explosion , even if it had not occurred earlier . |
| 44 | There were no landmarks , no features by which they could determine their position even if it had been light enough to see them . |
| 45 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 46 | I would n't have recognized it , the difference , even if it had been there . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ If I had n't known you could by last night , ’ she retorted , ‘ I 'd have got me a spare staff nurse even if it had meant taking this bloody hospital apart . |
| 48 | But as the limits of the human memory did not enable men to retain beyond a very limited number of names ; and even if it had , as it would have required a most inconvenient portion of time , to run over in discourse , as many names of individuals , and of individual qualities , as there is occasion to refer to in discourse , it was necessary to have contrivances of abridgment . |
| 49 | Even if it had survived , it is a moot point how long this bias would have been tolerated by West Germany . |
| 50 | Even so , the potential gain from a lower rate — even if it had been negotiable through the International Monetary Fund — is not easy to estimate because of the problems of relative elasticities of demand for both exports and imports and the problem of the cost effects of higher import prices , not least as they would have affected wage bargaining [ Ball , 1967 ] . |
| 51 | Last month a new law was passed , allowing former owners to claim back their land , even if it had been built over . |
| 52 | First , is it right that a remedy should be refused because the respondent would have made the same decision even if it had not acted illegally ? |
| 53 | Satisfied with Kozlenkov 's story , and on the basis of provenance and advice on the legal position , even if it had been looted , Sotheby 's therefore approached the Schlossmuseum Gotha . |
| 54 | Even if it had been otherwise , it still would not have followed that the unions should as of right share in the control of those resources they did not own : land and buildings , plant and equipment , and finance . |
| 55 | It did not occur to him to look for a seat outside Worcestershire , and even if it had there was little reason why he should have secured one . |
| 56 | It is difficult to see how this Conference could " possibly have approved fusion ; even if it had done , half the constituencies would probably have refused to implement the decision . |
| 57 | The reason why Henry 's belief that McEnroe is this year 's champion was too lucky or too luckily true to count as knowledge is that his route to this lucky truth was such that even if it had been false , he would still have ended up believing it . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | By further eroding the definition of spiritualia , the regalian exploitation of episcopal vacancies was now so extended that Edward claimed to fill livings — vicarages as well as rectories — emptied during an episcopal vacancy retrospectively , even if it had occurred during his father 's reign . |
| 60 | I wish to add that , even if it had been suggested that the Secretary of State had erred in law in this respect in the present case ( and no such suggestion was made ) , any such submission would have had to be founded upon evidence of the relevant provisions of Swedish law , and no such evidence was before the Divisional Court in the present case . |