Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] had the " in BNC.

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1 Even if they had the space , the concept is riddled with conflict .
2 It is therefore difficult to train such staff , even if they had the time and inclination to practise the skills necessary .
3 We feel quite like VIPs , although it is really the only practicable way of travelling , since the Institute is a couple of miles away , and even if we had the energy to cycle ( as all the Chinese do ) I do n't think we would have the time .
4 Even if he had the knowledge and inclination to do so , there are too many distractions .
5 ‘ I spent hours in the library looking up all the journals I could find — and the thing that kept coming back to me was that even if you had the treatment , there was a chance that the effects of toxoplasmosis on the child might not come out until years later .
6 ‘ I could n't afford the time , even if I had the money , ’ says Robyn .
7 I 've looked everywhere for a weapon , but there 's nothing of any use , even if I had the strength and skill .
8 Teacher says it 's disgraceful But even if I had the time , I feel too tired .
9 It seemed there would n't be time to do any prying even if she had the money to go to Chertsey , which she did n't .
10 But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so .
11 Even when she had the picture in front of her , she seemed only to see the flat bloodless paper .
12 It often occurred to her that she might never leave Florence again even when she had the money and means to do so .
13 Herluin , when finally he did touch , touched as if the vellum might burn him , timidly and convulsively , and even when he had the book open , for better or worse , agonized a few moments over where to choose on the page , shifting from recto to verso and back again before settling .
14 The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) .
15 Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills .
16 After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom .
17 In the US during the 1970s , the cultural climate in economic thinking was soft on inflation , and the Fed did not tackle it as a result , even though it had the power to do so .
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