Example sentences of "[noun sg] even [subord] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 One is guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm even though one does not intend to do so and one is not reckless as to the result : Savage [ 1991 ] 4 All ER 698 ( HL ) .
2 The shape-specific polymers continued to be passed on from potency to potency even after none of the original solute was left in the solution .
3 Thus in Priest v Last [ 1903 ] 2 KB 148 , a hot water bottle burst causing injury to the purchaser 's wife and it was held that there was a breach of the implied condition even though nothing was said about the purpose .
4 ‘ Incidentally , taking the old man 's philosophy to its logical end , I presume that one would be expected to destroy an enemy machine even if one knew that , say , the pilot were injured or out of ammunition , and therefore unable to fight back . ’
5 [ PC. 2. ] got on the radio to ask for assistance even though nothing had happened .
6 Corollary 1.9.15 If F ε Z[x] and if one ca n't write F as a product of polynomials , each of smaller degree and with integer coefficients , then one still ca n't write F as a product of polynomials each of smaller degree even if one is prepared to use polynomials with rational coefficients .
7 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 .
8 It would be worth doing even if one was n't paid anything at all .
9 In Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1988 ] 3 All ER 545 ( part of the Spycatcher case ) it was recognised that information which Peter Wright had unearthed by his own endeavours was clearly covered by an obligation of confidence even though one could not say there existed a " confider " or " confidant " in relation to that information .
10 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 ) .
11 The reason is not just that international affairs are hard to reduce to intellectual order , perhaps because they are changing character even as one tries .
12 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 !
13 It retained its popularity even though none of the Hanoverian kings was an inspiring personality and none , with the possible exception of George I , a man of much intelligence .
14 Earlier Davies , 55 , claimed he was fired because executives feared evidence might be produced that he was an arms dealer even though no-one believed such a thing .
15 BGS is active in both fields at all times , for accumulating data is an important task even when nothing spectacular is happening .
16 In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves .
17 In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine .
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