Example sentences of "even [conj] they " in BNC.

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1 Even where they are allowed , strikes will still not be easy .
2 Even where they did , there was a fair degree of flexibility .
3 First , there is evidence that men , even where they acknowledge that they have responsibilities to parents or children , often exercise those responsibilities through their wives .
4 And , as we shall see , even where they directly contradict the evidence of the senses , false beliefs may yet continue unabashed and display a quite remarkable resilience .
5 Rather , it is to emphasise that their members are in general uninformed about it ; and that even where they are not uninformed , they are for the most part unversed in it .
6 Even where they are not , her great houses should always ideally be theatres of hospitality , seats of self-fruition , and the comfortablest part of life .
7 On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land .
8 Probably they would have had no application to W. , but even where they are applicable it may be in the long-term interests of the minor that if the same treatment can be secured upon some other basis , this shall be done .
9 More than three-quarters of those who are currently in post , even where they receive some remuneration , are amateurs in status , and in many cases in training as well , The extent and quality of their musical education is therefore extremely varied .
10 That congregations be given ample opportunity to sing in services , even where they have to be unaccompanied ( 528–529 , 540 ) .
11 Managerialist attitudes have also had an impact , with a few authorities ( particularly on the radical right ) preferring a managing director model , which downgrades corporate management and has sometimes undermined Bains-type arrangements even where they formally continue in existence .
12 In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm .
13 On the other hand , even where they have decided , many agree with , partner in the commercial property department of Morton Fraser Milligan , that ‘ solicitors are still backward in pushing ourselves forward ’ .
14 On Oct. 15 the US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills said in Washington that the USA had rejected EC proposals for " re-balancing " , which sought tariff increases on items such as oil seeds to offset cuts elsewhere , adding that the USA could " not tolerate " such an idea , which effectively allowed the re-imposition of tariffs , even where they had been negotiated away .
15 It is also true that there were moments , like the 1720s , the 1780s and to a lesser extent the 1750s , when their establishment was especially noticeable , but even where they existed , large numbers of claimants were still relieved at home .
16 Numerically the Jamaicans form the majority of the Caribbean community in most parts of London as well as other large centres ; yet even where they do not , it is Jamaican which provides a focus for the Creole of black youth .
17 Sellers in a strong bargaining position will attempt to impose such a clause even where they are not obliged to supply the forecast requirements .
18 Even where they are not directly linked to major matters of public policy , industrial relations may have a political resonance far beyond their apparent importance , entering the terrain of political symbolism : as exemplified perhaps by the gesture of Franco in intervening to prevent the closure of a railway workshop in Andalucía ( Sur , 30 March 1968 ) .
19 John and Isabel were happy in their marriage even although they had to go into hiding occasionally , with friends or on the muirs .
20 He and his group Dinosaur Jr have come to epitomise the check flannel shirts and guitar-amps-to-11 movement , even although they are far superior to their increasingly unimaginative clones .
21 The demands of the king upon the realm for sacrifices and contributions towards the war effort would have been much less effective even than they were , had not the church acted as a kind of ministry of information and propaganda .
22 We fought for them to come to the Assembly , where they could speak their minds and meet the Africans they never meet , and together listen to the Almighty Who might know better even than they what is best for the country .
23 For instance , if father has lost his job , whispered conversations about money worries , which break off as soon as children come near , may give them the idea that a terrible disaster is about to strike , or even that they are too insignificant to be taken into their parents ' confidence .
24 They did n't just acknowledge gracefully that they 'd been beaten , or perhaps even that they had been wrong , and welcome their Reporter back .
25 There was a danger of people having short memories , and forgetting even that they had taken part in the war …
26 Perhaps it will come as no surprise to my readers to hear not only that all knowledge of selling me a coffin was denied but even that they were now , or ever had been , coffin-manufacturers .
27 One could argue , then , that by July 1949 the battle lines had been drawn in Southeast Asia , and even that they had been drawn unilaterally , by the US .
28 Do not imagine , however , that lectures will always be held in the order shown in the syllabus or even that they will cover every aspect of it .
29 She felt dreadfully guilty letting them down about the Rome and Athens trip , but even that they smoothed over , told her not to worry .
30 Book-writers , Faussone says , produce works ‘ which may be beautiful and all that , but , on the other hand , even if they were a bit defective , excuse the expression , nobody would die , and the only loser is the customer who bought them ’ .
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