Example sentences of "even [subord] his " 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 | Yet although Haydon mocked his ‘ passionate timidity ’ there was plenty of action in the amatory field — no ambiguity there , even if his style fell short ofByronic . |
| 3 | HIS WEATHER forecast had been right even if his poll prediction remained unconfirmed . |
| 4 | Throughout the weeks on the stump he remained entirely amiable , even if his nice smile sometimes seemed the work of a plastic surgeon . |
| 5 | The old tiger himself pronounced it a good idea , even if his friends had to listen in a state of uncharacteristic sobriety . |
| 6 | Even where the government pays for the mechanical means of conservation entirely ( and thus avoids the problems of a lack of capital or labour on the part of the farmer , his inability to forgo food crops for a season , and the reduction of his perception of the risks involved even if his private resources are sufficient ) , such an act engenders apathy on the part of the farmer , who regards the work as belonging to the state ( FAO 1966 : 172 , for a project in Morocco ) . |
| 7 | whose nobility of soul never stoops to treachery even if his life or livelihood is at stake , |
| 8 | Hubert Butler joined the Palace from Chorley in the summer of 1928 , having previously played for Blackpool , with a reputation as a proven goalscoring inside-left , even if his Palace debut was in the disastrous ( and record ) defeat ( 1–8 ) we sustained at Northampton the following October . |
| 9 | Still , David was also an honest and capable footballer and , even if his Palace career was not to reach his previous level , he played some useful games for us and was probably at his best in the autumn of 1983 , when he also scored some valuable goals , including one late winner against his home town club , Cardiff City . |
| 10 | An antidepressant should never be the sole form of treatment a patient is receiving , even if his illness appears to be entirely of an endogenous variety . |
| 11 | Demidenko ( Hyperion ) is also highly individual , not to say idiosyncratic , even if his penchant for the mildly unexpected will not be to everyone 's taste , and Katin 's sensitivity and rare gift for sustaining a seamless melodic line ( Olympia ) is let down slightly by his converse reluctance to immerse himself in those many passages when the note-rate increases alarmingly . |
| 12 | This ruling was reviewed , as a point of law , by the Queen 's Bench of the High Court , which decided that a man who publishes a book in circumstances where he must reasonably know that it is obscene commits an offence , even if his motive is pure . |
| 13 | Even if his heart is already damaged , your husband is wrong . |
| 14 | Otis Rush is still here , even if his talents are diminished , while Buddy Guy seems , if anything , to be playing younger and wilder every year . |
| 15 | Wordsworth had been exhausted by his efforts as early as 1804 ( see Ode to Duty ) , and he would probably have returned to conventional pieties and religion even if his brother 's death had not accelerated to process . |
| 16 | Hackney developed with surprising speed , even if his defence under the high ball did tend to have the watcher on the edge of his seat . |
| 17 | Even if his colleagues ignored some of the good runs he made , City 's defenders certainly did not . |
| 18 | And he tried hard to get involved even if his colleagues ignored some of the good runs he made . |
| 19 | But nobody had the right to be that nasty ; not even if his backside was black and blue . |
| 20 | He weighs more than Joe Frazier but in these days of the super tanker heavyweights like Bowe and Lennox Lewis , he 's lacking in competitive firepower , even if his heart is totally disproportionate to his size . |
| 21 | There was no questioning the fact that Horsley was an extremely successful businessman , even if his clothes sometimes looked more like Country Life . |
| 22 | ‘ A tough but decent bastard ’ was their view , even if his inability to make small-talk still riled the staff nurses . |
| 23 | But even if his music does n't change , he needs to break that cosy little cocoon just a little bit , before the naive becomes the really , really offensive … he should get out more , basically . |
| 24 | Even if his history is half-baked , there is nothing amateurish about Mr Severin 's voyage . |
| 25 | The claim of the ‘ good ’ characters to the Wagenburg treasure is no better justified than that of the rival party under Ellis , even if his murder of a secret service man does inspire Jonathan Mansel , who makes a third with Chandos and Hanbury , and who heard the dying man 's last words , to engage upon the adventure : |
| 26 | Reich 's use of ethnographic evidence is suspect , but in general terms it could be admitted that there could in Freudian theory be differences of the type which Reich pointed out , even if his evidence may not have been carefully formulated . |
| 27 | The dialogue form of what became the Two chief world systems ( 1632 ) was a brilliant response to these restrictions , Galileo probably calculating that it would protect him from censure , even if his impartial discussion pointed to far from impartial conclusions . |
| 28 | For all I know , there may be a kernel of truth in what he says , but anyone expecting his followers to wear turquoise shell suits can count me out , even if his prophesy that New Zealand is about to disappear under water has a certain charm . |
| 29 | Even if his New Jerusalem were ever built it would be executed and administered by the people in this city . |
| 30 | Christianity was a matter of churchgoing , of soldiering on and trying to do one 's best , and of believing in the existence of God and the historical life and death of Jesus ( even if his deity and his resurrection were not to be taken too seriously ) . |