Example sentences of "[adv] even [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently there is no contact number , so even if we like the music , we ca n't do much about it . |
| 2 | I have no desire to pass on nasty stories about other people , not even when I know the facts of the case . |
| 3 | Q. I never see my Upside Down Catfish during the day , not even when I feed the other fish . |
| 4 | " Then , " said Dandelion , " Frith felt himself in friendship with El-ahrairah , because of his resourcefulness , and because he would not give up even when he thought the fox and the weasel were coming . |
| 5 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 6 | ‘ I just wish I had the opportunity to buy a quality player like that more often , but they are not around even if you have the money . |
| 7 | then even if we get the increase in work we will not have the staff available to cope with it , |
| 8 | However , for both development officers some eventual admissions to institutions were accepted , though a few somewhat sadly even when they supported the decision . |
| 9 | It often occurred to her that she might never leave Florence again even when she had the money and means to do so . |
| 10 | I seized that bloody pole , swinging the barge round even as I felt the water beneath me slop and gurgle as if maliciously laughing at me , waiting to embrace us in its frozen grasp . |
| 11 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 12 | Therefore even if we accept the military estimates of the ‘ probable ’ accuracy of such weapons ( 300 metres or more for ‘ tactical ’ weapons , with somewhat greater accuracy for the ‘ battlefield ’ types ) this still means the statistical inevitability of some inaccuracy ( Weston , 1983 ; United Nations , 1981 ; Krass and Smith , 1982 ) . |