Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Academic English was a recent invention , largely of the inter-war years ; and even where it existed it had commonly stopped with the early nineteenth century . |
| 2 | There is little right of reply on radio and television and even where it exists it is not particularly likely to be heard by the audience of the original programme . |
| 3 | even though you know Even although you know it . |
| 4 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 5 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 6 | She knew that writing his name was never going to get him back , even if they wrote it hundreds of times in the most beautiful book in the world . |
| 7 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 8 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 9 | Even if they say it 's out |
| 10 | I sha n't take it if it 's something I do n't like you know even if they give it free . |
| 11 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 12 | In many institutions which train primary and first school teachers , the teachers themselves have an option as to whether they can do a science course or not and then even if they do it it 's usually very biologically biased erm towards the natural sciences . |
| 13 | In many institutions which train primary and first school teachers , the teachers themselves have an option as to whether they can do a science course or not and then even if they do it it 's usually very biologically biased erm towards the natural sciences . |
| 14 | ‘ Even if they think it 's a piece of trash ’ , said one dealer who begged not to be identified , ‘ they 'll all be too afraid to say it ’ . |
| 15 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 16 | In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves . |
| 17 | I need to see this action as one step — even if we lose it will perhaps serve to show the nation how far it has fallen , that it no longer is concerned that such things happen in its midst . |
| 18 | that , even if we knew it once again , |
| 19 | We can , for example , account for the latter , even if we dislike it , by means of finding various reasons for that behaviour such as upbringing , unfortunate company , or unpleasant experiences . |
| 20 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 21 | Not even if we squashed it into the cassette case . |
| 22 | Generalisation is therefore not easy , and its value is limited , even if we confine it — as we must — to the relatively developed countries as distinct from the backward , to the urban working classes as distinct from the agrarian and peasant sectors . |
| 23 | The radio can not demand that we listen to it : even if we leave it switched on , this does not mean we are listening . |
| 24 | Even if we find it difficult to imagine the strength of feeling behind this ambivalence , most of us can recall or visualize the ambivalence in a parent 's action when given a ‘ friendly cuff ’ , or when threatened with a poised hand and a laughing voice . |
| 25 | At the moment , nuclear power contributes approximately three percent to our national consumption of fuels , a small figure and even if we multiplied it tenfold that would be thirty percent . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , his energy of observation remained constant and again inclined towards the economics of the area : he contemplated one piece of land , a ‘ watery flat ’ , that seemed to have natural drainage possibilities — ‘ it had a visible declivity ’ ; although he allowed that even if he felt it could be reclaimed without ‘ difficulty or expense ’ , these were relative terms . |
| 27 | If something or somebody seems to be all the go , it takes a determined editor to ignore it even if he thinks it wildly over-rated . |
| 28 | ‘ Even if he did it seems a bit far-fetched to think he could do anything about it . |
| 29 | Even if he makes it he wo n't be up and around for a month at least . ’ |
| 30 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |