Example sentences of "[noun sg] even [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It will be important to formulate an initial strategy for the bid even if it has to be modified subsequently as a result of changing circumstances .
2 Such spiral waves could be induced by injecting the non-metabolizable analogue InsPS 3 ( ref. 70 ) , whereas the injection of calcium had no effect even though it caused a localized elevation of calcium .
3 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 ) .
4 When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did .
5 My meadow , which I may well be contemplating with pleasure even as you read this , is a delight .
6 In addition , competition may mean that we are unable to recoup our initial investment even if we win the contract .
7 And in another case , decided in the same year , the Court of Appeal held that a mistress was entitled to a beneficial interest in the house she had shared with her lover even though he had left it to marry another woman .
8 Dido 's sobbing for her old lover even as she lies in the arms of her new one — this melancholy , which Virgil , and following him Hardy , responded to with such sympathy , is for Pound deathly , it precludes the genuinely ‘ new ’ , which he urgently wants to find and to celebrate .
9 The president of the Writer 's Association , Hermann Kant , a central committee member , said the exodus of almost 50,000 refugees could not be blamed on the ‘ wicked class enemy ’ in West Germany : ‘ A defeat is a defeat even if it comes on the eve of a glorious celebration . ’
10 Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future even though he saw a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year perhaps up about 7pc to 1.7 million .
11 Generally , VAT can not be waived on bad debts and you must pay the revenue even though you have n't been paid yourself .
12 When I last met them in September , I asked them to consider urgently three specific point : first , the introduction of visible vehicle identification numbers ; secondly , the fitting of deadlocking across all their vehicle ranges ; and , most important , the development of an effective vehicle immobilising device that would make it impossible to move a car even if it had been broken into .
13 With a string of southern primaries due in March , Clinton remained the overall favourite for the nomination ; the conventional wisdom was that Tsongas could not generate sufficient appeal outside New England , and — given the 1988 fate of Michael Dukakis , a Massachusetts liberal ( also of Greek ethnic origin ) with whom he was frequently compared — would be unelectable as President even if he did secure the nomination .
14 He ran up the ramp , the sergeant liftmaster activating the hydraulics even before he had set loot on it .
15 Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did .
16 Of course not all policemen are in absolute positions of command even though they represent the maintenance of structure in more than a symbolic way ; and few can move into communitas to experience the temptations described above .
17 Therefore , an individual can be guilty of theft even though he had £1,000 in his purse and said on arrest that he would pay for the items shoplifted .
18 I 'm donning the sackcloth even as I write
19 They offer the boats for corporate sailing , entertaining and regattas , and you can join their sailing club even if you do n't have a boat .
20 Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid .
21 Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid .
22 The new French Agriculture and Forestry Minister , Louis Mermaz , said that France would not be pushed into an accord even if it meant extending the December deadline for completing the GATT talks .
23 Professor Stephen Hawking must be making a beeline to Washburn HQ even as I write !
24 The next Conservative Government will spend more on fighting crime even while we economise elsewhere .
25 The American star , at No. 37 with Neighbour , pretended he was still at college even though he had left to lead the life of a beach bum .
26 He may even be compelled to pay interest on arrears of rent even though he did not know that the rent was in arrear ( Allied London Investments Ltd v Hambro Life Assurance plc [ 1985 ] 2 EGLR 45 ) .
27 Port Vale are the only team certain to finish below Keegan 's men and , although Brighton would be another if they failed to beat Portsmouth at the Goldstone Ground on Wednesday , last day wins by Oxford ( at Tranmere ) and Plymouth ( at home to Blackburn ) would condemn Newcastle to Third Division football even if they drew at Leicester .
28 I FELL in love with jazz even before I fell in love with wine — I 'm talking about great , improvised , live jazz and , of course , great bottles of wine ; both darned hard to describe , poignantly ephemeral and profoundly moving experiences .
29 Until at last there was only one Callanish eagle left , a juvenile whom the others had sought to protect and so had prevented from joining in the fighting even though she had wanted to .
30 What they are writing about in reality are the ideal standards of their own social group , those that give meaning to their work practice even if they do not always live up to them .
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