Example sentences of "even if [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals . |
2 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ? |
3 | The chantry certificates of 1545 , even if one accepts their record of communicants in the parishes as accurate , do not cover the whole country , and again there is uncertainty as to the proportion of the population below communicant age . |
4 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
5 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
6 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
7 | Since they would n't want to declare their real objective , even if they had one , they see little point in having one at all . |
8 | In the church , the blacks have no hymnbooks , and we are told that even if they had them they probably could not read them , showing that the blacks are oppressed and have no opportunity of an education . |
9 | And I 'd swear to that on a stack of any books you consider sufficiently sacred , even if they burn my hypothetical fingers . ’ |
10 | Such a placing also ensures that insects coming to feed on it , even if they seek nothing else , are dusted with the pollen that the plants require them to carry . |
11 | Even if they evict us , or break up the camp or deliver the fucking things — it 'll go on . |
12 | I should n't care to work for them even if they asked me . ’ |
13 | At the back of their minds many girls feel that perhaps , even if they told their parents , they would fail to understand , or take in a situation so different from their own educational experiences . |
14 | But do n't waste it on me in any case : I would n't believe Six even if they told me they were lying . |
15 | I would n't do it even if they offered me loads of money . |
16 | ‘ That 'll cost them the turn-out prize even if they win everything else . |
17 | She knew that writing his name was never going to get him back , even if they wrote it hundreds of times in the most beautiful book in the world . |
18 | Then , even if they lose their foliage in summer , they will surge into growth again in October , as mine did last year . |
19 | Even if they locked him in a dark cell and pulled out all his teeth with rusty pliers , he must keep his promise to Sweetheart and tell them nothing . |
20 | And even if they meant him no threat , how could the Lord Owen be sure of it ? |
21 | Horses nearly always hesitate when they are led into a dark stable at night , even if they know their dinner is ready and waiting for them there . |
22 | ‘ Even if they know what you want to know , they wo n't tell you . |
23 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
24 | Even if they get something that 's better than nothing |
25 | Even if they get me , I 'll go down fighting . ’ |
26 | But Dexter countered : ‘ Even if they get their vote , they are only one vote in 20 on the TCCB . ’ |
27 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
28 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
29 | Students who are normally resident in Northern Ireland are not normally eligible for postgraduate awards from award-giving bodies in Great Britain even if they undertook their first degree at a university or polytechnic in Great Britain . |
30 | Even if they say we want you to open Sundays now , I shall say no . |