Example sentences of "even [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where his name had appeared , however , the percentage of the vote which he had managed to achieve was smaller than had been widely anticipated . |
| 2 | Unquestionably it was ancient Rome 's greatest legacy to the medieval world , greater probably even than its literature and its poetry . |
| 3 | Doug 's year-long affair has been the roughest life event I 've ever faced , harder even than my mother 's death , ’ she says . |
| 4 | More even than our present MPs he would have to ensure that any success he might achieve was widely reported . |
| 5 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 6 | So , for example , Salah and Bil Hasan , brothers living with their wives in one household , with their own private rooms and kitchens , always ate in the common courtyard , on neutral territory ; and each wife in turn prepared the meal , rigidly observing the rota even if her husband was absent . |
| 7 | Writing to the client would be out of the question too , because of her marital problems , even if her address were available . |
| 8 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 9 | Annabel Hogan was polite to him even if her maid was n't . |
| 10 | Blondie were a group , but Blondie was also Debbie 's alter ego , a cartoon character come to life , a girl that has fun even if her heart gets broken . |
| 11 | But whether Rider Haggard wanted to move his mysterious veiled woman somewhat further from the realm of allegory near which she certainly appeared to reside in She and Ayesha , or whether he was merely exercising the husbandry of a writer who had created in Quatermain a remarkably useful narrator and wanted to make the fullest use of him , the fact remains that the ‘ She ’ of She and Allan is more shrewdly realised as a woman than in the two preceding books , even if her self- centred mysticism is still as grandiose and woolly as it was . |
| 12 | Her parents , Lord and Lady Harmer Nicholls , were delighted when Sue became an actress and adore watching her now , even if her cultured voice is obscured by Audrey 's broad Lancashire squawk . |
| 13 | Further , wives ' legal access to the marital home has been improved by the recent practices of divorce courts which have more often allowed the wife to claim possession of a portion of the marital home even if her name did not appear on the title deeds . |
| 14 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 15 | At least now she was beginning to get her focus back , even if her strength had n't yet come with it . |
| 16 | She 's far too valuable just as she is , even if her sixth sense did n't mention Epping Forest until after our crime reporter did . |
| 17 | That agile mind was not going to sit back and take things easy even if her body had no option but to obey the doctor 's orders . |
| 18 | It is quite possible , however , even if her influence within the EEC has been weak , that Britain has nevertheless gained great benefits from her membership . |
| 19 | Then she hid it well , she mused , even if her awe was n't for his title , but for the man . |
| 20 | Once again Isabel did n't get a chance to argue , even if her brain had been working . |
| 21 | She certainly needed a cup of tea , even if her erstwhile visitor did n't . |
| 22 | She knew me even if her mind went wrong . |
| 23 | An alternative to dates is to use a term like Romantic , even if its meaning seems to alter from writer to writer . |
| 24 | He rejected hot methods of evangelism by mission and believed that quiet rational exposition was the true Christian way even if its results were not spectacular . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union was too big a problem even to begin thinking about seriously at that stage ; a military superpower still , even if its economy was falling apart and its politics were in uncertain flux from one-party dictatorship towards a multi-party democracy . |
| 26 | The conclusion of the first section was that a just government can exist even if its subjects are not bound by a general obligation to obey it . |
| 27 | But it was now clear that depression had a biochemical basis , even if its original causes lay in heredity and in the experiences of life . |
| 28 | The law recognizes this and demands that care continue , even if its nature changes . |
| 29 | Similarly , not every trade union liaises efficiently with its members , even if its officials are trying hard to defend jobs in their negotiations with the company . |
| 30 | An accident can result in some form of disablement or disfigurement and , even if its effects are only temporary , the human suffering involved can be intense . |