Example sentences of "even [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1990 the unpopularity of the poll tax made even that levy politically unacceptable . |
| 2 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 3 | Even when make and cause are mutually substitutable ( with the consequent change in the version of the infinitive ) , as in ( 134 ) and ( 135 ) , a slight difference in meaning can be perceived . |
| 4 | Thus even though know has the operative sense in this use , the operation of obtaining knowledge is seen merely as the condition for predicating the infinitive 's event of the direct object . |
| 5 | Well did n't we , no we have n't told him what the fault is even though have we so |