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 .
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