Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where it is positively established that the right person was questioned , who by being present at the time had the nominal responsibility for cleaning the surface in question , the true reason for the fault may lie elsewhere being the result of one or other of the following factors : |
| 2 | Even once we were acceptably coupled , though , the differences were obvious . |
| 3 | For example , a sufferer from alcoholism who still used sleeping tablets , a sufferer from any of the eating disorders who is not physically abstinent from sugar and white flour , a sufferer from workaholism who exchanges work for physical exercise in similar quantities and a sufferer from the family disease who still searches incessantly for treatment or other solutions to the problems of the primary sufferer rather than accept his or her own powerlessness over the lives of other people and accept the need for personal recovery , are all still in the active phase of the disease even if they are regularly attending meetings of an appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 4 | Unlike cleaning chemicals which still perform even if they are grossly misused and , at worst can hardly leave a surface dirtier after application than before , misuse in disinfectants and sanitisers can result in an increase in bacterial contamination . |
| 5 | ‘ We expect that women will want to cook and sew and launder even if they are also reading Homer or studying Italian painters . ’ |
| 6 | even if they are both needed and wanted by the school . |
| 7 | Women are presumed to be able to cope domestically in circumstances where men are presumed to be unable to manage : they can cook , clean and care for themselves even if they are physically impaired ( Wenger , 1984 ) . |
| 8 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 9 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |
| 10 | A similar exam is still compulsory for anyone seeking to enter the teaching profession without the required Leaving Certificate pass , even if they are never to teach the subject . |
| 11 | Walkers should stick to obvious paths even if they 're badly eroded . |
| 12 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 13 | Finally , independent single-employer ( rather than association ) bargaining meant that US firms could still continue to deal with their own employees — even if they were now organised into trade unions — rather than be faced with an external trade union body against which they had fought for so long ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | The description of the Monk in the General Prologue is a full and detailed one , even if we are subsequently invited to conclude that it is a mistaken and misleading one ; by contrast , the presence of three priests with the Prioress and her nun/chapeleyne is noted in just three words at the end of line 164 of the General Prologue . |
| 15 | He told me he 's infallibly able to recognize women even if he 's only seen them once . |
| 16 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 17 | But his old friend ‘ the Professor ’ is obviously a scientist of note — and perhaps best of all , is fun and always using science to produce exciting things , even if he is often defeated by magic spells ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 18 | He was kind , sympathetic and understanding , even if he was slightly reserved . |
| 19 | Even if he was still paying off a mortgage , he had to be making at least £2,500 a year out of us , not counting the fact that the property had quadrupled in value . |
| 20 | It was heaven to be in Roman 's arms , even if he was only playing the part of groom to her bride . |
| 21 | In Northern Ireland it 's against the law to leave your vehicle unlocked and unattended even if you 're just popping into a shop . |
| 22 | If you 're 16 or over , you can claim on your own low-income grounds : it 's your income that counts , not your parents ' , even if you 're still living with them . |
| 23 | So if your relationship breaks down you can not be charged each other 's Poll Tax bills , even if you are still living in the same house . |
| 24 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 25 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 26 | Even if I 'm like giving out my name to a customer sometimes I write down Lynne and it 's like what did you write that for . |
| 27 | Even if I was still working I do n't think we 'd be able to buy anything outright . |
| 28 | This measure may be of use to health care planners , but , even if it is eventually validated and accepted as an equitable way of allocating resources , it will be of little help to general practitioners , whose decisions are mostly concerned with managing self limiting minor illnesses . |
| 29 | For whereas a subordinate rule of a system may be valid and in that sense ‘ exist ’ even if it is generally disregarded , the rule of recognition exists only as a complex , but normally concordant , practice of the courts , officials , and private persons in identifying the law by reference to certain criteria . |
| 30 | It takes its real departure from a problem , even if it is badly set up . |