Example sentences of "[conj] even [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , because identification with one 's community is morally worthwhile , and acceptance of the authority of the state an appropriate way ( though not the only way ) to express it , one may jump to the conclusion that one has an obligation to accept the authority of the state , or even that it has authority independently of such acceptance . |
| 2 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 3 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 4 | To start with , it 's not at all clear these days what people mean by it , or even whether it exists any longer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And even when it appears to be so , the level of sales is in itself a quite complex measure . |
| 15 | And even if it does n't come naturally , most politicians develop the ability to be absolutely horrible whenever it is required . |
| 16 | , because carburettor icing is unlikely to occur on the ground , and even if it does , it is not dangerous |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , this level of unreasonableness is hardly the norm , and even if it does exist would be difficult to prove . |
| 20 | It 's not very common during pregnancy , and even if it occurs the effect on the baby can either be slight or very serious , when it 's a tragedy . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ British Rail has put off its £0.75bn programme and even if it takes private money , the bigger the players the better . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the philosophy of animal welfare by its very nature permits utilising other animals for human purposes , even if this means ( as it always does ) that most of these animals will experience pain , frustration and other harms , and even if it means , as it almost always does , that these animals will have their life terminated prematurely . |
| 23 | Ullman therefore suggests ( contra empiricists and Piaget ) that a baby — or , one might add , a kingfisher — can see that two appearances are views of one and the same object even if it has never seen that sort of object before , and even if it has no tactile or manipulative evidence suggesting that they pertain to one and the same thing . |
| 24 | Quite often it has n't and even if it has it may be helpful to call the recipient with information on delivery and timing . |
| 25 | And even if it has n't , maybe Rohmer can see to it that you 'll spend the rest of your life behind bars along with Jimmy Devlin ? |
| 26 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |
| 27 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 28 | the other one , but even though it opens outwards , a bit comes in and a bit comes out and so he had to chip away at the |
| 29 | There is controversy over whether this sort of fusion occurs under pressure inside the Earth , or inside the heavier Jupiter , but even if it does it is at levels that are useless for commercial fusion . |
| 30 | It is too early yet to say how useful the discourse approach will be , but even if it achieves nothing else , it can at least be claimed to have shown the inadequacy of attempting to analyse the function of intonation on the basis of isolated sentences or tone-units , removed from their linguistic and situational context . |