Example sentences of "that even [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is our task to attempt to specify the constraints on spelling under which they were working , always admitting that even after we have done this , there may well be residues of apparent randomness that we can not explain . |
| 2 | He could have basked in the illusion of being a benevolent father-figure to his people , actually loved and appreciated and secure in the knowledge that even after he went , things would go on along the tracks he had laid down . |
| 3 | We seldom discussed politics but I knew that even though they belonged officially to a Fascist organization their sentiments were more inclined to the local brand of Communism . |
| 4 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 5 | The article , written by a man , said that even though we do n't like to admit it , men pay for women in restaurants , expecting sex in return . |
| 6 | I must admit that even though we do n't get on — I mean , we still have our ups and downs — all through my remand and prison sentence she visited me . |
| 7 | Johnson returned to this case now in Aberdeen , saying that even though he understood how difficult it would be to ensure accurate evidence , it still did not make it right that a murderer should go unpunished . |
| 8 | When it passes out of his hands , Gollum is so eaten up with desire for the Ring that even though he has become evil he helps Frodo find Mount Doom in order to stay with the Ring . |
| 9 | She was able to organize her day so that even though she seemed to be less harassed than Maggie the meals were always delicious and on time . |
| 10 | ‘ No ! ’ said Ellie , almost too emphatically , afraid that even though she did not know her own mind , he might withdraw his offer . |
| 11 | Now I 'm gon na leave it there , 'cos one thing that 's emerged is that even though you 've had this sheet with the diagram to tell you how to do it , you ca n't do you ca n't do it yet . |
| 12 | She would inevitably interpret it as some kind of macho statement about the fact that even as he entertained one woman in his flat , another was on her way upstairs with … what on her mind ? |
| 13 | It is true that even as he complained and tried to protect the British position , so he could sometimes admit to the desirability of American support . |
| 14 | I have heard that even if they lose 15 per cent of the money coming in at the moment , some of them could fold . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Many who would like to enter nursing and believe they are too old are put off by the knowledge that even if they do venture , they will find themselves alone in the company of a large group of teenagers . |
| 17 | ‘ Proper ’ subjects have to ensure that even if they involve skills , they are not based on them . |
| 18 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 19 | Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other 's horoscope in the newspapers , but without credulity : I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense , being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the ‘ rising sign ’ . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | In this first category we consider three main criticisms : ( a ) that the model developed in chapter 4 can not account for a major feature of all economies ; ( b ) that the model relies for all its results on very simple specifications of the aggregate supply and demand curves ; and ( c ) that even if one accepts the model as it stands governments might effectively stabilize the economy if they possess better information about the economy than the private sector , or indeed if different parts of the private sector possess different information . |
| 22 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |
| 23 | Many of us find that even if we bin our junk mail , it continues to arrive . |
| 24 | At this stage a cynic might well say that even if we adopted a United States type of approach the courts would simply manipulate the labels . |
| 25 | He never asserts , however , that even if we accepted that animals have rights , we could never justify infringing them . |
| 26 | so that even if we get a young person coming out of the workshops that may not be the best electrician going , we can find them something in a related area — an electrical warehouse , where their knowledge of the bits that they know will be put to good use and they 'll still be in that environment they want to work in . |
| 27 | But what we realized was that even if we hit his estimates we were still gon na be worse off . |
| 28 | The problem with this reasoning is that even if we accept the narrow definition of freedom on which it relies , a system of private property , and in particular private ownership of productive assets , is not the only property system that is capable of bringing about the required dispersal of control over material goods . |
| 29 | ‘ We made a pact , that even if we split up , we would meet up on the bridge again one day . |
| 30 | It seems , therefore , that even if we find a unified theory , we may be able to make only statistical predictions . |