Example sentences of "even if [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Roman catholic bishops supported the wording of the referendum and , as the referendum approached , said it was legitimate to oppose the amendment even if one was against abortion , which was in any case still immoral and was ‘ the direct taking of an innocent life ’ ( Irish Bishops ' Conference statement , quoted O'Carroll 1983 ) . |
| 2 | One command-line switch will make use of a maximum of 512K of expanded memory , either EMS 3.2 or 4.0 ; another will put overlays into extended memory ; a third disables the ‘ degree of freedom ’ facility for errors in curve fitting , and a fourth can be used to disable a mouse even if one if fitted and nominally active . |
| 3 | He says what he believes to be true and even if one disagrees with him , his uncompromising stances are vastly preferable to some of the gobbledy-gook that comes from some sections of the countryside establishment or those who change their views from year to year . |
| 4 | But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’ |
| 5 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
| 6 | Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group . |
| 7 | For example , would our designer or first cause , even if one existed , have to be God ? |
| 8 | Even if one remains within the traditional canon of the eighteenth century , it is hard to believe that a major critic could so easily dispense with Goldsmith , Crabbe , and Burns . |
| 9 | But one is narrowly neutral even if one provides the Reds with normal food supplies . |
| 10 | Even if one accepts this view of the social role of a doctrine of justice , and gives it the priority Rawls assigns to it , his conclusions are not supported by his arguments for at least three reasons . |
| 11 | It would be worth doing even if one was n't paid anything at all . |
| 12 | Anyway , these must not be dismissed with hasty suggestions ; it is extremely important to my mind not to discredit the zoophile cause by sounding idiotic and to take great notice of the knowledgeable people who are concerned with managing these creatures even if one does not like their attitudes . |
| 13 | Even if one acknowledges the significance of the state itself as an agency , there is a danger that it may be given a role which is too sharply independent . |
| 14 | But even if one were to follow a couple for a whole day on repeated occasions , would this do justice to the full range , texture and history of the changing day-to-day relations between mother and child ? |
| 15 | Kuijken ( ) , as ever , puts musical values first , and in this he reminds me very much of a firstgeneration ‘ authentic ’ recording made by the Collegium Aureum under Schmidt-Garden ( not yet available on CD ) , which similarly involved one textually in a way which few versions can match , even if one is left with the impression that many of the musical solutions may have registered almost as comfortably on modern instruments . |
| 16 | Of course one would n't change places with that poor old thing even if one had to look after fifteen small boys and a loony or so thrown in ! |
| 17 | This being the case , it 's hardly surprising that the bucket seats grip you like a pair of pliers , that the suspension shakes your spine on potholed surfaces and that the engine noise makes a stereo unnecessary , even if one was provided . |
| 18 | I accept that this is a possibility and that , even if one believes in reincarnation , there may be times when it is the patient 's subconscious which is providing the ‘ information ’ about a previous existence . |
| 19 | Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other 's horoscope in the newspapers , but without credulity : I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense , being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the ‘ rising sign ’ . |
| 20 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 21 | Even if one accepts that auditors are capable of providing information about business risks that is useful to investors and other parties , it is questionable whether the benefits of extending the auditor 's role in this direction are likely to outweigh the costs . |
| 22 | Even if one is as generous as possible regarding the size of the error , the figure would still turn out to be several tens of millions of lost lives . |
| 23 | Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him . |
| 24 | But diamond , like other hard precious stones , is quite brittle so that , even if one could get it cheaply in large pieces it would not be a very useful structural substance . |
| 25 | Even if one is not concerned with broader issues of social policy , one has at times a sense of being overwhelmed by the sheer extent of the work that needs to be done to support very old people and their carers , often reinforced by personal anxiety about one 's own relatives . |
| 26 | I love three colours in a row and often use them , but I always use the three colours throughout , even if one only shows occasionally . |
| 27 | Even if one takes a sceptical view of the applicability of the laws of war to nuclear weapons , it does not follow that the laws of war are irrelevant in the nuclear age . |
| 28 | Even if one rejected Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say something is white ? ’ one might still hold there to be conditions which have to be satisfied for a colour-word to be used meaningfully . |
| 29 | Even if one accepts that the thesis accounts for why blacks are overrepresented in reactive activities such as boxing and soccer , and underrepresented in self-paced sports such as golf and swimming , it does not explain why blacks do not excel in such reactive sports as motor racing , tennis , fencing , squash or even skiing ! |
| 30 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |