Example sentences of "even if [pers pn] be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’
2 Use your mirrors , on narrow or winding roads or where there is a lot of oncoming traffic , drivers of large or slow moving vehicles should be prepared to pull in and slow down to stop as soon as there is suitable opportunity , well , before you take off or turn left or turn right , or slow down or stop , use your mirrors , you should always look behind even if they 're none , a motor cycle should always look behind either , then give the appropriate signal if necessary , remember the routine
3 Our parents may not have been Christian , or even if they were they could have been the victims of some erroneous ideas or traditions .
4 It appears to me that any articles published in a program probably would n't be the ones with , well shall we say ‘ less than polite ’ , references to other clubs/players … and even if they were they could be censored so as to be acceptable to the general public .
5 even if we are we should we should be managing that internally .
6 Even if he 's your husband he can not go through the pain you went through and so can not know what it is like .
7 Eric was crazy all right , even if he was my brother .
8 But that also is the case , I mean er er , a lot of time th the actual design of our houses does n't lend itself for us to actually look even if you 're you 're permanently looking out the window .
9 But even if you were you need n't expend any sympathy on my behalf — my tonsured condition is a matter of design rather than accident .
10 Even if I was I 'm not gon na go and blurt out something that I 'm not supposed to , but that 's not the case anyway !
11 The traditional term will serve , even if it is one the scope of which requires further explanation .
12 Fundamentalism , whatever its religious version , provides a detailed and concrete programme for both individuals and society , even if it is one selected from texts or traditions whose suitability for the late 20th century is not obvious .
13 If you know someone like that , it 's worth observing and studying his or her use of language , manner , and what his body language says to you , even if it is someone you only ever see on television .
14 Cos I mean to say , even if it is your father
15 ‘ By laughing at them you make them a victim — and all humour has a victim , even if it 's yourself , ’ says Carl .
16 It seemed sort of hot but er I mean that 's the trouble at the moment because even if it 's something minor thing , it seems so dramatic .
17 Even if it 's somebody else you know .
18 Well er firstly , he can , even if it 's his money give it to his wife as his partner , and she could then invest the money , and because she 's not paying any tax , er she could get a ten percent return , so she could actually get a thousand pounds on that ten thousand and that would be payable gross .
19 Needless to say , this is no reason why feminists should cease their demands ( quite the reverse ) , but it is a reason why the demand for abolition will never be met in isolation ; and even if it were it would be pointless overall , since further anomalies would be created and the burden of injustice simply shifted to other women .
20 A , because it 's not an idiom , and B even if it were it would be a whole sentence , because walk is intransitive .
21 If something did not go right , such as missing a train — even if it was her own fault — she flew into a rage .
22 But in Lebanon we do n't have vows , they have like kind of contract , and if the if they broke the contract it 's the bride and groo , the groom have to pay that amount of money for the the bride , even if it was her fault .
23 But it was n't like that ; It was n't that crude , or even if it was it should n't be talked of in such a way ; not now , not yet ,
24 Even if it was your they 're saying it belonged to yourself .
25 ft was strange then , all these things were happening , and the thing was , sometimes you did n't hear about them until much later , even if it was someone you were used to seeing all the time .
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