Example sentences of "[noun] even [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , competition may mean that we are unable to recoup our initial investment even if we win the contract . |
| 2 | Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above . |
| 3 | So while Mala was attending to Posi as they plotted our course to Fraxilly through the primary and secondary Netlines — a bit complex , since we 'd be shifting through eight sectors even if we took the direct route — I took charge of the cylinder . |
| 4 | In a sense , the hype answered that question even before we saw the programme . |
| 5 | Mr Bush accepted the Pentagon proposal even though he told the United Nations that he believed ‘ we can achieve the level of verification that gives us confidence to go forward with this ban ’ . |
| 6 | Their movements must , therefore , have literal implications even though they use the flowing romantic style originated by Taglioni and Perrot in La Sylphide and Giselle . |
| 7 | In this sense Cuvier anticipated the modern , Darwinian view of Nature even though he rejected the idea of transmutation . |
| 8 | Well , oh yes , I 'm sure I 'm not saying that 's the only thing that controls people 's food intake I mean clearly there are things cultural some cultures , the Japanese seem to love eating raw fish , I mean how they can bring themselves to do it I do now know , I mean the raw is I do n't think I 'd want to eat again , but er erm not always if they were cooked either , but erm the , the er and certainly if you look at the Australian Aborigines even though we take the Australian Aborigines as our kind of primeval people , they have astonishing food taboos , I mean their attitudes to food are very very culturally er effective to , to a quite extraordinary extent , some so that somebody somebody discovered that eating a tabooed food by accident , they 'll get very ill , a kind of psychosomatic illness . |
| 9 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |
| 10 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
| 11 | I was wracked by anxiety and guilt even before I made the decision . |
| 12 | In Phillips v Grampian Health Board ( 1989 ) The Times , 9 March a widow was held entitled to recover damages even though she married the deceased when he was already suffering from a fatal disease and she knew that his death was inevitable within a few years . |
| 13 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 14 | Spires of crimson and carmine and blood were the rocks , changing colour even as she watched the new day burn off their sugar-frost coating . |
| 15 | Most British firms even if they recognize the problem , do n't do anything about it . |
| 16 | It had been tricky enough for him to help the women to whom he had no commitment even though he felt the deepest pity for them , but to help McAllister , whom he loved so dearly — how was he to do that ? |
| 17 | ‘ Western financial institutions operate a divide and rule policy : they strike sweetheart deals with individual governments which benefit Third World elites even though they harm the poor . |
| 18 | There certainly were opportunities , therefore , for children and young people to contribute both directly and indirectly to the household economy even before they entered the labour market , and on balance the evidence suggests that girls were likely to be more substantial contributors than boys , especially in the provision and exchange of domestic services , although boys may have had more opportunities to earn money . |
| 19 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 20 | Richard Baxter thanked God that his family were preserved safely in Acton even though he said the local churchyard resembled a ploughed field because of the large numbers of newly dug graves . |
| 21 | Some members of the group were avid supporters of reggae — they loved the music even while they hated the people who made it . |
| 22 | It seemed there would n't be time to do any prying even if she had the money to go to Chertsey , which she did n't . |
| 23 | He had refused to touch what he called the Stavanger Final Insurance even when he needed the money for his fleet — why should he use it now for what was only indirectly of concern to him ? |
| 24 | Racism of this kind is constantly experienced by black people at all levels of society even if it takes the more subtle form of simply being treated differently . |
| 25 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |
| 26 | If the defendant produces a false driving licence to hire a car , he is still liable for this offence even though he pays the hire charge . |
| 27 | I had a feeling that this jam session on the back of a truck with Bunny was going to end in tears even before I left the house . |
| 28 | She knew that the commission accruing to dealers was 4p a share , and she was calculating her own gain even before she closed the sale . |
| 29 | She knew the answer even before she asked the question , so when the blond head shook in negation she was n't surprised . |
| 30 | Both mothers could take legal action against the hospital even if they have the correct child . |