Example sentences of "even [conj] use " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if used sensibly , capital-budgeting procedures will tend to discourage major initiatives and indicate strategies aimed at short-term returns . |
| 2 | Will any teacher who raises funds in the name of the Society ( even if used immediately for a specific purpose ) please send a brief statement to the Treasurer , as we need to show the extent of our own fundraising in the Annual Report and to the Sports Council . |
| 3 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 4 | True enough , even while using Greek , the Jews remained only too often bilingual for their own consumption , but the extent of their apologetic production in Greek indicates that they aimed at Gentile readers . |
| 5 | [ T ] he term British constitution is near meaningless even as used by British writers . |
| 6 | We will not go into great detail on the dangers of using statistics here but merely point to some precautions which must still be taken even when using statistics which are generally regarded as reliable . |
| 7 | Even when using binoculars , it is difficult to sight the lens angle in reverse , but there are general rules that provide a start towards success through experience . |
| 8 | Even when using solder-ring fittings it is as well to have some spare solder |
| 9 | Even when used properly , the bit has to be reversed to release the nose screw ; mot all machines have this facility . |
| 10 | Although Kemp 's is a silly book , it contains enough of Wells 's lively turns of phrase — even when used against him — to make it readable . |
| 11 | Even when used , with effort to avoid evaluative overtones and as a purely descriptive device , psychiatric classification leaves much to be desired ; for example in its inability to distinguish clearly between different varieties of psychosis or draw sharp boundaries between the manifestly and the marginally insane , points we shall have cause to enlarge upon later . |
| 12 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 13 | Some explanation is perhaps needed for the fact that the same phrases also sound more normal in ( 18 ) than the corresponding phrases in ( 15 ) : ( 18 ) the heir is a lawful one her cousin is a distant one Possibly we should accept that , even when used in a context of heirs and cousins respectively , these two adjectives occupy an intermediate position in the sense that they can be construed either way without any significant difference in the non-linguistic phenomena that can be designated thereby . |
| 14 | Peter Yeo , who had personally persuaded Barton of the presentational disadvantage of using words like ‘ darkies ’ , ‘ niggers ’ or ‘ wogs ’ , decided that ‘ immigrants ’ even though used in the manner of one invoking a curse , was as good as he was going to get with this particular client . |
| 15 | If the " we " code is taken to be the one which is closer to the " heart and mind " of the speaker , and hence the one which imparts greatest salience to a given message , then Creole , even though used sparingly , does indeed seem to fulfil the " we code " function for speakers in this community . |