Example sentences of "[conj] even [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To start with , it 's not at all clear these days what people mean by it , or even whether it exists any longer . |
| 2 | It is only by alleviating frustration immediately , or even before it becomes experienced , Robarchek argues , that the Semai are able to be so non-violent . |
| 3 | Grunte , who had no idea what the Government 's policy was , or even if it had one , charmingly admitted to his ignorance and invited another question . |
| 4 | The real issue with the voters was de Gaulle himself , and the General reinforced that perception by warning that he would resign if the proposed change was rejected or even if it passed by a slim majority . |
| 5 | She was n't sure when the wordless comfort changed , or even if it did . |
| 6 | And the Journal 's not exactly a reliable record of what happened to him — or even when it happened . |
| 7 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply . |
| 8 | The reason why Henry 's belief that McEnroe is this year 's champion was too lucky or too luckily true to count as knowledge is that his route to this lucky truth was such that even if it had been false , he would still have ended up believing it . |
| 9 | No , lust was n't ugly ; many of her friends ' affairs and marriages were founded on mutual lust and a few had stayed that way , neither foundering nor developing into something richer and more complex ; but for her it could never be enough , even in the context of a mere beginning , and , after the depressing end of the relationship in Wellington , she knew that even if it had been allied to liking or affection , it still would n't have been enough . |
| 10 | And she also reminded herself that even if it had included a kiss it did n't mean a thing — especially as it had come from a man who was living in the outback to get away from women . |
| 11 | More , that even if it chances to be true , the further claim to have discovered the programme is incredibly courageous , the courage that of enormous intellectual conceit . |
| 12 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal . |
| 13 | The curious nature of the first-person plural relationship in the Sonnets [ + ego , + tu ] is that it is so infrequent ( twelve times only ) and that even when it occurs it is tenuous , fragile , or , as here , stands for a union in falseness . |
| 14 | Muon catalysed fusion may be only one miracle short of practical realisation , but as yet we do not know where that miracle will come from , nor even whether it exists . |
| 15 | Ipswich Airport is due to close , and even before it does lack of facilities at the grass airfield are causing problems for European industrialists planning to open plants in the area . |
| 16 | But the anointing , which ye had received of him , abideth in you , and ye need not have any man teach you but as the same anointed teachers you all things , and is truth and is no lie and even as it have taught you , ye shall abide in him . |
| 17 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 18 | There is little right of reply on radio and television and even where it exists it is not particularly likely to be heard by the audience of the original programme . |
| 19 | Repeated official and unofficial enquiries have suggested that the foreign exporting sector buys very little that is of Irish manufacture , and even when it does buy locally it tends to buy low value-added goods , like packaging materials and industrial consumables . |
| 20 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 21 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 22 | And even when it succeeds , there is still a chance that after pursuing it for some way another gazelle passing in front will impede it and its first , tiring target will be able to escape . |
| 23 | And even when it appears to be so , the level of sales is in itself a quite complex measure . |
| 24 | And even if it meant bringing her back empty , he was still bringing her back . |
| 25 | And even if it went down , at least it would be a heroic failure — a genuine attempt to break the mould and bring back standards of quality and decency . |
| 26 | And even if it does n't come naturally , most politicians develop the ability to be absolutely horrible whenever it is required . |
| 27 | , because carburettor icing is unlikely to occur on the ground , and even if it does , it is not dangerous |
| 28 | And even if it does capture a market , there is always the risk it may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals , such as tempeh and tofu , once the initial suspicions of meat alternatives are overcome . |
| 29 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 30 | However , this level of unreasonableness is hardly the norm , and even if it does exist would be difficult to prove . |