Example sentences of "even if [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know already that in crucial ways children and adults can feel miserable and alone in families and communities , particularly when their needs are not recognised or when , even if recognised , they can not be met properly . |
| 2 | The management usually have a ruling that receptionists do not socialise with the guests on a personal basis ; therefore staff should not make dates with guests or visit their rooms even if invited to do so . |
| 3 | However , such surveys , even if couched in sophisticated designs , have the weaknesses of all surveys : they are ‘ hypothetical ’ and do not correspond to actual behaviour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Wilcock , with a lifelong affinity for cultural outlaws was intrigued by Bruce , even if alarmed that the jacket pocket spilling out with hypodermics would get them both busted . |
| 6 | Even if hiring , think about taking a thin wetsuit . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the rapid uptake of the technology , with the implications this has for very substantial job displacement in some sectors , even if matched in the longer term by job creation elsewhere , is highly likely to create further problems for the economy and for society to handle . |
| 8 | One young lady , disguised as another , would be unlikely therefore to provoke censure even if recognized . |
| 9 | Haughtily I will now declare that even if asked I could not endorse anything in which I did not believe . |
| 10 | Sealed so that they can work even if flooded |
| 11 | The results may look conservative , but in this century it is almost a novel idea — even if born of necessity — to restore romance and comedy to ‘ The Merchant of Venice . ’ |
| 12 | Secondly , even if implemented , the question would arise as to whether adequate checks existed to prevent the reconstituted board from exercising its powers in an arbitrary fashion . |
| 13 | This is because , as the financial review section of the annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 1992 states , highly liquid securities , even if listed on a recognised stock exchange , are excluded from cash equivalents since , technically , the maturity of these securities when acquired was greater than three months . |
| 14 | Without share certificates , a client can only sell his stocks ( even if listed ) through the dealer he bought them from , at that dealer 's price , which may well not be competitive . |
| 15 | Even if manufacturing America looks relatively healthy , financial America does not . |
| 16 | These factors make it unlikely that his dicta , even if accepted by other members of the Court , could be given any more general applicability . |
| 17 | Personal cheques drawn on overseas banks are generally difficult to negotiate in the UK and , even if accepted , it may be many weeks before the funds can be drawn . |
| 18 | Personal cheques drawn on overseas banks are generally difficult to negotiate in the UK and , even if accepted , it may well be many weeks before the funds can be drawn . |
| 19 | I like to think Johnson would have gloried in the most likeable derivation of the word ‘ kangaroo ’ , even if lacking evidence for its provenance . |
| 20 | Society at large is naturally uneasy with the notion that doctors — even if acting humanely — may put an end to the life of a terminally ill person , whether young or old , or of a malformed baby with no prospects of survival . |
| 21 | And even if based on the assumption that no more returns can be included In analysis , the response rate is over 50 per cent of the total number of questionnaires sent out . |
| 22 | However , one farm which has only young 1992 fish has been told by its bankers that they do not believe the fish will ever be accepted for sale , even if tested clean , because of the public perception of the oil spill . |
| 23 | For example , one Lambodar Gorain has been held in Ranchi Jail since 18th June 1970 , for an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act … with the result that he has been in prison for eight and a half years for an offence for which even if convicted , he could not have been awarded more than two years imprisonment … . |
| 24 | Ferocity is demonstrated , and the force of it received , through : ( a ) the ritual killing of a mythical , fierce and excellent hunter , ( b ) the ceremonial ( and actual ) rape of women , where a woman from each clan is chosen as object , and ( c ) a ceremonial pantomime of attack which opposes the moieties one to the other : one side in fierce , scowling stamping dance moves against a man of the opposite moiety who must not flinch , even if trampled ( Maybury-Lewis 1971 : 257 ) . |
| 25 | Everything , even if named , was part of the same thing . |
| 26 | He did not want , even if thrust upon him , to be a saint or saviour . |
| 27 | To live by ungrounded values , which even if organized as rationally as a science have only an inward coherence without external support , has come to be widely accepted as the quintessentially modern condition . |
| 28 | It is less evident that such a strategy would appeal to the daughter of a tradesman , who might after all be able to serve in her father 's shop , or to the daughter of a white-collar worker , to whom the printing trade might appear to be a step down in the world in some respects : inky and dirty , even if requiring literacy . |
| 29 | Even if reinforced , UN peacekeepers are not deployed or armed to defend themselves against concerted attack . |
| 30 | Even if copying extends to the structure and other non-literal elements of a program this should not prevent competitors bringing out programs to perform similar functions . |