Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 2 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 3 | In my guts I feel that , even if everything goes the best it possibly can for me , my life has changed completely and forever . |
| 4 | And remember , Roger , the thread had been removed , the fuse destroys itself , and people coming in and out of the room , once the bed was on fire , would scarcely think it suspicious even if they saw the odd burn mark on the floor . |
| 5 | Both mothers could take legal action against the hospital even if they have the correct child . |
| 6 | Second , households with different compositions will have different patterns of demand , even if they have the same income . |
| 7 | Even if we take the general figure of 50 mm ( 2 in ) per 1000 years for limestone solution used in Chapter 7 it would still only give 3 m ( 10 ft ) of lowering , which is again not enough . |
| 8 | So while Mala was attending to Posi as they plotted our course to Fraxilly through the primary and secondary Netlines — a bit complex , since we 'd be shifting through eight sectors even if we took the direct route — I took charge of the cylinder . |
| 9 | Even if we disregard the sporadic use of violence against the movement , and its infiltration by spies and agents provocateurs , it is clear that it was generally considered by the controlling bodies of universities and by party politicians as an illegitimate form of political action , even though its principal aim was to extend democratic participation in one of the most important institutions ( both economically and culturally ) of modern society , and in many cases it succeeded in enlivening academic studies , as well as improving methods of teaching and assessment . |
| 10 | The problem with this reasoning is that even if we accept the narrow definition of freedom on which it relies , a system of private property , and in particular private ownership of productive assets , is not the only property system that is capable of bringing about the required dispersal of control over material goods . |
| 11 | Therefore even if we accept the military estimates of the ‘ probable ’ accuracy of such weapons ( 300 metres or more for ‘ tactical ’ weapons , with somewhat greater accuracy for the ‘ battlefield ’ types ) this still means the statistical inevitability of some inaccuracy ( Weston , 1983 ; United Nations , 1981 ; Krass and Smith , 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Even if we accept the underlying private enterprise philosophy of Making Belfast Work , some basic flaws exist . |
| 13 | Even if he looked the same , she could not remember him . |
| 14 | That would automatically rule Senna out of the championship , even if he wins the final two races in Japan and Australia and the title would go to his team-mate , Alain Prost . |
| 15 | Even if he survived the present crisis with its unusually heavy demands on resources , there were still a few weeks to go before he received his allocation for the next year . |
| 16 | Even if you block the straight line between two points by putting a cut in the paper , the ink will get around the corner . |
| 17 | ( The golden rule for recording : get it down , even if you miss the next nugget . ) |
| 18 | Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) . |
| 19 | Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help . |
| 20 | All of these aspects of the production of the text affect its meaning , both from the point of view of the author 's intention and of the most probable interpretation , even before we consider the wider social situations in which it may be encountered . |
| 21 | International prop PHILIPPE GIMBERT from Beglès-Bordeaux , a club which had acquired an unsavoury reputation even before they won the French Championship , has been fined FF8,000 ( about £850 ) for damages resulting from a punch in a club match against Rodez in December 1990 . |
| 22 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 23 | Even before it proscribed the corresponding societies by law in 1799 , thus turning a decade of more open popular radicalism into a following one of underground conspiracy and plans for insurrection , the state had begun to take things very seriously indeed . |
| 24 | Even before he touched the exposed flesh , she could feel her nipples tingling , tightening to aching points , thrusting proud and carmine under the caressing gaze . |
| 25 | The stab of fiery agony from his injured arm forced a gasp of pain from his throat , even as he completed the rolling movement to regain his feet . |
| 26 | But even as she made the token protest she knew a longing almost painful in its intensity to feel the possession of his mouth all over again . |
| 27 | But she would still be a traitor to grief , watching and listening , even as she spoke the formal words of condolence , for the flicker of an eyelid , the tensing of hands and face muscles , for the unwise word , for any sign that for someone in that waiting house in Campden Hill Square this might not be news at all . |
| 28 | Spires of crimson and carmine and blood were the rocks , changing colour even as she watched the new day burn off their sugar-frost coating . |
| 29 | I sobbed with fright , even as I addressed the one and only question which confronted me in such a dangerous situation . |
| 30 | Even as I wrote the final corrections to the first edition of this text in January 1973 , a splendid , though destructive new tear had Opened across the island of Heimaey , south of Iceland , and new oceanic crust was being formed . |