Example sentences of "even [subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents who make demands which are regarded as excessive are resented by their children ( even if they actually meet some of those demands ) , as are those who engage in emotional manipulation or divide the sibling group against each other ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) . |
| 2 | He had told her the one thing of importance , even if nothing else made any sense . |
| 3 | Even if we only got all those old tickets and things into green bags and started cleaning that out it would it would look as though we 're making some effort . |
| 4 | How we live is inescapably linked to what we think about our origin and our destiny , even if we only discuss these mysteries late at night in the company of a few friends . |
| 5 | Even if you personally have much more of a weight problem than this dieter , do not try to speed up change too much . |
| 6 | You paint because you ca n't help it even if you never make any money with it . ’ |
| 7 | I now quote her too kind words because they show some of the things she valued in writing , even if I imperfectly deserve such praise . |
| 8 | If cc was a causal circumstance for e , then ( 5 ) If cc occurred , then even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was never the less the case that e occurred — or , cc began and e ended a sequence of things such that it was true of each one and its immediate successor that if the first occurred , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with both , then the second also occurred . |
| 9 | If cc was a causal circumstance for e , then ( 5 ) If cc occurred , then even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was never the less the case that e occurred — or , cc began and e ended a sequence of things such that it was true of each one and its immediate successor that if the first occurred , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with both , then the second also occurred . |
| 10 | If e happened , at least one of cc or cc " or cc " or … existed , even if there also occurred any change x consistent with both . |
| 11 | Consider also if cc occurred then , even if there also occurred any change x logically consistent with cc and e , it was also the case that e occurred-which is the first part of the independent conditional in ( 5 ) . |
| 12 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 13 | Philip 's comments provide an ironic commentary on other ( younger ? ) readers who identify strongly with the B. A. He suggests the possibility of using the text to bolster the male reader 's own claims to superhuman strength even as he simultaneously dismisses this as fantasy . |
| 14 | Even when she later encountered more difficulties , she tried all sorts of positions , but never changed her grip on the hammer . |
| 15 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 16 | Since then , the forces of continental drift have continued to pull the two continents apart , widening the Atlantic , but the habit of returning to the sea each year to spawn has never been broken even though it now involves such an immense journey . |