Example sentences of "even if [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I love three colours in a row and often use them , but I always use the three colours throughout , even if one only shows occasionally .
2 Those deemed to have ‘ immigrant tendencies ’ ( the phrase used by the Chinese officials ) such as single people' or those married but without children or people with close relatives already settled abroad were simply refused passports even if everything else had been arranged .
3 The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) .
4 However , Gershuny 's ( 1983 ) work has shown that married women typically spend more time on housework than their husbands , even if they also have paid employment .
5 Not only have they made it worse , they knew they would ; even if they genuinely thought their policies were somehow better for Britain as a whole , they knew damn well they 'd put hundreds of thousands of people out of work , and Saatchi & Saatchi must have known that , too , if they 'd bothered to think .
6 So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank .
7 even our grandchildren were , I mean er right from the beginning even if they only go and sit in the surgery and just watch , ju you know just go and visit
8 The British played " a constructive part in helping to maintain world order " , even if they now had to rely on " ideas and dexterity rather than military might " .
9 They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember .
10 That being so , are these institutions in a position , even if they so desire , to guarantee the student freedoms argued for here ?
11 It is increasingly difficult for the establishment elites to retain dominance over all this new activity , even if they still have charge of the key institutions such as the Bank of England .
12 Beth 's experience suggests that people do n't change deep down , even if they really want to try to please their partner .
13 Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen .
14 The party 's decline can best be traced via the decline in the proportion of people who ‘ identify ’ with it — that is , think of themselves as being Labour supporters even if they occasionally vote for some other party .
15 Parents who make demands which are regarded as excessive are resented by their children ( even if they actually meet some of those demands ) , as are those who engage in emotional manipulation or divide the sibling group against each other ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) .
16 There has been the growth of feminist bookshops , research and resources centres , publishing houses , journals and magazines — even if they usually exist on shoe-string budgets .
17 had repercussions for all commandos , for they were strictly uniformed troops , even if they sometimes appeared off enemy coasts under flags of convenience .
18 The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils .
19 That 'll please the BEF … be able to handle 'em in practice even if they never fire 'em in anger . ’
20 Even if they never come back to Britain Balil and Samir will remember some things forever .
21 People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism .
22 Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly .
23 Or will it be a worse society if it has been deceived , just for that reason alone , because it is never in people 's true interests to lie to them , even if they never discover the lie ?
24 HMIs have clearly sensed that in launching their series of studies , even if their highly focused character may convey the subliminal message that they are interested more in mechanisms and techniques than in broader perspectives .
25 He had told her the one thing of importance , even if nothing else made any sense .
26 Even if nothing else had changed , widespread support for the idea that ‘ Black Wednesday ’ delivered Britain to recovery would alter the character of the ERM .
27 This advantage to the ultimate holder remains even if we effectively prevent insider trading .
28 Consequently , wherever we appear in public enormous crowds of staring ( but not hostile ) faces cluster round us — even if we just stop to buy a post-card .
29 What justifies us in attributing heat and cold to material things is our perceiving them to be hot and cold ; and they could still feel hot and cold to us even if we never felt hot or cold ourselves .
30 Britain never developed this idea of popular sovereignty in constitutional terms , even if we sometimes talk of the sovereignty of the electorate in political terms .
  Next page