Example sentences of "even [conj] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 2 | It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation . |
| 3 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 4 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 5 | It also enabled him to wrap his hand round the glass , even if it had a handle , in a manner peculiarly his own . |
| 6 | If the decision is illegal it can be quashed ; otherwise the court can not ( with one exception ) intervene , even if it thinks the decision to be wrong in some respect . |
| 7 | Even if it measures the use of redundancy up to ten words either side of the deletion , this is still not the same as measuring comprehension : as we saw in the Bailey and Harrison study , redundancy and comprehensibility can be very different aspects of a text . |
| 8 | In 1976 the general tenor of the Report had gained a general welcome even if it secured no specific action to strengthen local independence . |
| 9 | It 's not very common during pregnancy , and even if it occurs the effect on the baby can either be slight or very serious , when it 's a tragedy . |
| 10 | Those who advocate an expansionist policy believe that a 6% base rate is the minimum necessary to get the economy out of the recession , even if it involves a further decline in sterling . |
| 11 | An argument can be a perfectly logical deduction even if it involves a premise that is in fact false . |
| 12 | However , the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation . |
| 13 | Where plot might be jettisoned , story is retained as a principle of connection : ‘ Once the story is launched it must go on it must follow its course however crooked it may be even if it takes the wrong direction ’ ( 1976b ) . |
| 14 | Racism of this kind is constantly experienced by black people at all levels of society even if it takes the more subtle form of simply being treated differently . |
| 15 | Saying ‘ no ’ even if it loses a sale |
| 16 | Even if it took every penny of his redundancy money . |
| 17 | ‘ It is a very encouraging set of measures , even if it lacks the boldness some had hoped for , ' said a spokesman . |
| 18 | In a BBC interview during his brief period of freedom he had promised to continue campaigning for multiparty democracy even if it meant a death sentence for sedition . |
| 19 | You could lock anybody up that fell under that power — even if it happened a week ago . |
| 20 | As an exercise , it was valuable for Glass even if it aroused a great deal of hostility . |
| 21 | Reason told her that it would be less painful to remove the bandage with a sharp tug , even if it broke the skin , than to peel it off slowly . |
| 22 | ‘ I always wanted to ease it off , even if it prolonged the agony . |
| 23 | Thankfully , ‘ Dirty ’ , the Sonics ' recent Geffen album , entered the UK Top Ten during the first week of release and , even if it has a long way to go to equal the sales of ‘ Nevermind ’ , things could be taking a turn for the better . |
| 24 | If such a program detective had descriptions of all the high-level languages ever written , and knew them to be all there were , then he could presumably work through them all in turn ( the obvious difference from the human brain case being that , even if it has a high-level programming language we have no idea what it could be like ) . |
| 25 | Good fun , even if it has a predictably upbeat ending . |
| 26 | The right side remains right even if it has no ultimate hope at all . |
| 27 | Ullman therefore suggests ( contra empiricists and Piaget ) that a baby — or , one might add , a kingfisher — can see that two appearances are views of one and the same object even if it has never seen that sort of object before , and even if it has no tactile or manipulative evidence suggesting that they pertain to one and the same thing . |
| 28 | The claim is therefore that denunciatory punishment is justified even if it has no good consequences such as educating the public conscience and thereby reducing the amount of crime . |
| 29 | In emergencies , such as a burst pipe or major leak , turning off the stopcock should be the first thing you do even if it has no immediate effect . |
| 30 | None the less , the question we have posed is an important one even if it has no ready answer ; important because it directs our attention to the ways in which disciplines acquire , develop and , not to be forgotten , discard knowledge . |