Example sentences of "but even [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party . |
| 2 | the other one , but even though it opens outwards , a bit comes in and a bit comes out and so he had to chip away at the |
| 3 | The brochure said that the Pyramid of the Sun was over sixty metres high , larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt , and the Street of the Dead more than three kilometres long , but even though it contained a plan , as well as photographs , I was still not prepared for the colossal dimensions of the place . |
| 4 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 5 | But even if it had been believed in Paris , there was a further complication in that the actual renunciation had come not from Leopold but from his father ( whom the Paris papers now labelled ‘ Father Anthony ’ ) , which in itself seemed a curious procedure . |
| 6 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 7 | He worried about that , but even if it had succeeded simply because it was just another of the ridiculous and unbelievable antics in a ‘ Carry On ’ film , succeed it did . |
| 8 | Frau Hoflin hoped it had n't been an affair , but even if it had , well , things were different these days and it did n't matter too much as long as it was over . |
| 9 | There is controversy over whether this sort of fusion occurs under pressure inside the Earth , or inside the heavier Jupiter , but even if it does it is at levels that are useless for commercial fusion . |
| 10 | It is too early yet to say how useful the discourse approach will be , but even if it achieves nothing else , it can at least be claimed to have shown the inadequacy of attempting to analyse the function of intonation on the basis of isolated sentences or tone-units , removed from their linguistic and situational context . |
| 11 | Yeah but even if it says virgin it can still |
| 12 | The algal mat deposit is strongly diachronous to us ephemeral human beings , but even if it extended for hundreds of miles inland it would still be virtually synchronous geologically . |
| 13 | Whether or not this affected Cecil 's handling of English policy is hard to say : but even if it did not , it was surely by his own standards , improper . |
| 14 | With a little more attention to the parser it could have been a Sizzler , but even as it stands it 's well worth your dosh so get out there and part with it at once ! |
| 15 | But even when it breaks down there are all sorts of reasons why a couple could benefit by continuing to cooperate , and treating their divorce , too , as nonzero sum . |
| 16 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |
| 17 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |