Example sentences of "[coord] even [conj] it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't sure when the wordless comfort changed , or even if it did . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And even if it does n't come naturally , most politicians develop the ability to be absolutely horrible whenever it is required . |
| 5 | , because carburettor icing is unlikely to occur on the ground , and even if it does , it is not dangerous |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , this level of unreasonableness is hardly the norm , and even if it does exist would be difficult to prove . |
| 9 | Most PC software did n't have a Macintosh counterpart and even if it did users had to work the magic of the asynchronous communications link to get data back and forth . |
| 10 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Whether or not this affected Cecil 's handling of English policy is hard to say : but even if it did not , it was surely by his own standards , improper . |
| 13 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |