Example sentences of "even if [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the first were correct , surely a house full of children and servants would have heard poor William 's pleas and , even if they had been too frightened of his mother 's retribution to release him , surely they would have passed him food . |
| 2 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |
| 3 | This last observation may mean that additions , repairs and restorations could be recognised even if they had been carried out with lacquer from the lacquer tree instead of imitations of it . |
| 4 | ‘ The patients may have died even if they had been admitted . ’ |
| 5 | Even if they had been willing to rely on relatives , they could not do so ( Anderson , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | Mosley 's later fascist ideas on government owed much to Lloyd George 's wartime reforms of the administrative structure , even if they had been devised in a democratic framework . |
| 7 | Even if they had been eager to serve , these landowners could be no more than part-time soldiers . |
| 8 | Nozick suggests that the reason why we take the justified true beliefs in those examples not to have been known is that a would have believed them even if they had been false . |
| 9 | He has also observed that an immediate cause of the creation of this new duty of the judges was the royal mandate which ordered the Court of Common Pleas to remain stationary at Westminster instead of perambulating the country in attendance on the King , and the subsequent disinclination of the serjeants , even if they had been sufficient in number , to absent themselves from the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster in order to attend the King 's Court during its perambulatory travels . |
| 10 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 11 | Even if they had been trying all the years between . |
| 12 | The consensus was overwhelming , but Shaughnessy could call none of his informants to the witness stand , even if they had been willing to testify , because almost everything they had told him — no matter how detailed and how well corroborated by information from other independent sources — would have been ruled out as inadmissible hearsay . |
| 13 | But even if they had been MacQuillan 's they would have been no use . |
| 14 | Always the money that had not arrived , always the arrears of pay causing disaffection , and even if they had been sent substantial tallies on regional treasuries or port taxation officers , still the endless complaint that the money simply was not there to meet the bills . |
| 15 | Assisted by a recent Supreme Court ruling that members of the last parliament were not immune from prosecution for corruption even if they had been re-elected , Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Sir Julius Chan had launched a full investigation in late July into the financial dealings of the previous government . |
| 16 | Most heads of departments and senior staff were favourable to the idea of the appraisal , even if they had been put-off initially . |
| 17 | Thus , purchases by the Board would have done nothing to facilitate an increase in the total supply of land for development even if they had been much more numerous . |
| 18 | Not that that 's unreasonable in itself but it never seems to have bothered her before since she says herself she did n't normally stay the night , even if they 'd been out late . ’ |
| 19 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 20 | Even if they 'd been half full it would have been our only escape route . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Even if they have been killed in their sleep ? ’ |
| 22 | Bureaux in the main are not purpose-built and even if they have been especially partitioned for the purpose-built and even if usually enough total space to consider the ergonomics of advice work . |
| 23 | This means that not only can aspiring professionals come back to play in the Home Internationals afterwards , even if they have been successful , but also that they are in a position to change their minds if successful . |
| 24 | The sole trader or partner pays income tax under Schedule D ( subject to allowances ) on all profits , even if they have been reinvested in the enterprise . |
| 25 | So are the other countries which support it , even if they have been less keen to play soldiers . |
| 26 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 27 | One reason for this is that older workers tend to lack certification for skill even if they have been acquired . |
| 28 | I mentioned in in my first contribution this morning a a concern about that those considerations that environmental considerations , even if they have been fully considered er are not there 's not an explanation provided anywhere in in the structure plan supporting material as to how that 's actually been achieved . |
| 29 | We would n't have found it difficult to reconstruct the exchange even if we had been too far away to hear what was said . |
| 30 | Even if he 'd been rushed straight to hospital , they might not have been able to save him . |