Example sentences of "even [conj] it [vb mod] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , there is also concern that the provisions of the Act are failing to provide adequate safeguards against excessive caution on the part of some magistrates who may be tempted to refuse bail even where it would have been safe and proper to grant it . |
| 2 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 3 | At last it looked as though her fee was guaranteed — even if it might mean being constantly shadowed by Guido . |
| 4 | The personalized nature of disputes caused litigants to pursue all possible legal strategies even when it would have been more rational to compromise . |
| 5 | We may have to admit that Polybius did not always check his facts even when it would have been easy to do so . |
| 6 | Accordingly the law insists that a former employee can not be prevented from turning to his own account his professional skill and knowledge even though it may have been acquired whilst in employment and at the employer 's expense . |
| 7 | Perhaps the retention of the State Paper Office and its adjacent houses led Scott to this asymmetrical composition , but he seems to have made little attempt to relate the design of his central tower to Soane 's Italianate structure even though it would have been only approximately 20 feet ( 6.096 m ) away . |
| 8 | On the Continent a curved form of axe , the franscisca , was used as a weapon by throwing it , but this type and conventional forms of axe are rare in England , even though it would have been a basic tool for cutting timber . |
| 9 | It was the rule for centuries that if animals ( or at least , ordinary tame animals ) strayed from adjacent land on to the highway neither the owner of the animals nor the occupier of the land was liable for any ensuing damage even though it could have been prevented by controlling the animal or by fencing . |
| 10 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’ |
| 11 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |