Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] even [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I sat at the kitchen table , staring at the blind white blankness in front of me , and slowly , like a clear spring welling up from the common earth , the poem rose and spread and filled me , unstoppable as flood water , technique unknotting even as it ran , like snags rolled away on the flood .
2 The result applies even if we do not have all > 0 since the device of adding a constant K to all terms simply adds K to and .
3 We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again .
4 For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead .
5 Why did they say that migration occurs even when we have high unem unemployment ?
6 Do what the boss says even if it means annihilating yourself . ’
7 The middle assassin fired even as she dropped .
8 The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling .
9 The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship .
10 But pathos exists even if you know you 're finished at death in your lifetime , pathos still exists .
11 The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan .
12 The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan .
13 The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something .
14 In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s .
15 Bob Ewell who is the father of the so called victim , Mayella , is prepared to use his influence as a white to get Tom convicted even though we know that it is Bob Ewell who should be taking the punishment as it is made clear in the trial that he is the person who abuses Mayella not Tom .
16 The stairs creaked even where he placed his feet carefully at the wall side and the ludicrous self-portrait of himself as a householder properly armed with a poker going upstairs to hunt burglars made him stop to tauten his thoughts .
17 Caroline says midwives do n't like to be bossy , and resist ‘ ordering ’ a woman to rest even if they feel she should .
18 For that analysis suggests that if aggregate demand shocks are kept to a minimum , ideally at zero , economic agents will be best able to recognize and respond to relative demand shocks even though they do not observe any other current prices than their own .
19 It is unlikely to be possible easily or cheaply for the Purchaser to come to its own conclusions as to whether or not these Acts apply even if it has access to the contractual document .
20 But more astute moves made even before she had established herself as a world star had guaranteed that she collected an above average share of the money her records were making .
21 I need my beauty sleep even if you do n't .
22 The most effective way of doing this is to actively trade on the information acquired even though they run the risk of being prosecuted .
23 Alison said even if you get a two they 're gon na , you know bigger is better than
24 This was because those steps had been reasonable ones to take even though they had in the event aggravated the losses .
25 It was impossible for Sally-Anne to obey even if she had wished to .
26 ‘ The verses do say the Lion cried even though it died .
27 ‘ Agreed , ’ he replied , ‘ but how could this Lion cry even though it died ? ’
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