Example sentences of "even [conj] it [verb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a very encouraging set of measures , even if it lacks the boldness some had hoped for , ' said a spokesman . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I always wanted to ease it off , even if it prolonged the agony . |
| 12 | Now they are impatient with a government that cut their pay by 10% ( even if it restored the cuts later ) . |
| 13 | Not as wild boar running free and doing untold damage to the countryside , as in Italy , France and Germany ; but as farmed wild boar which should ease your mind , even if it causes the farmers untold headaches . |
| 14 | Bishops were unlikely to help them , for " Whatever the cost , even if it means the destruction of the church , [ bishops ] try to preserve that power and significance which prelates possessed in the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries " . |
| 15 | It is fair to say , however , that this argument could be countered by the statement that the landlord should not expect the tenant to comply with unreasonable requirements and recommendations , even if it means the landlord changing insurers . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , Newman 's was an important interpretation , even if it influenced the rhetoric of higher education more than the reality ( Bell 1971 ; see also Slee 's 1986 , interpretation in relation to the growth of history as a discipline ) . |
| 17 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 18 | Even before it proscribed the corresponding societies by law in 1799 , thus turning a decade of more open popular radicalism into a following one of underground conspiracy and plans for insurrection , the state had begun to take things very seriously indeed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was found that the decision of the GMC to prevent advertising in the press was a lawful exercise of the statutory powers conferred on it by s35 of The Medical Act 1983 , and that if a statutory power was exercised intra vires , reasonably and in accordance with the purpose of the Act conferring the power , ( even though it restricted the plaintiff 's freedom to trade or practice his profession ) the court could not review the exercise of the power on the basis that it caused a restraint of trade , since the exercise of the power in accordance with the policy and the purpose of the Act could not be contrary to public policy and any review by the court would be unconstitutional . |
| 21 | Some companies , such as retail group Kingfisher , refuse to join , even though it meets the 0.5 per cent target . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Similarly , an increase in the number of brands on offer may be a consumer gain , even though it reduces the probability of new suppliers entering the market in the long run . |
| 24 | It is part of their religion , a religion I do not scoff at as it holds many elements which match our own even though it lacks the truth of ours . |
| 25 | Sometimes their anxiety and an uneasy feeling compel them to move like Arsenicum and , even though it makes the pains worse ( < ) , they can not keep still ; or the pains can be so violent that they also have to move but it still makes the pains worse ( < ) . |
| 26 | It was far short of unambiguous espousal , even though it upset the old planners . |
| 27 | AY has admitted negligence in relation to the stock over-statement , provided that WG can prove the fraud took place , but the firm is claiming that it only owed a duty of care to Alkar as its auditor , and not to Walker Greenbank , even though it audited the group accounts . |
| 28 | Indeed in the case of Bijlmermeer , there is concern over the residents ' increased fear of assault by assailants concealed in shrubbery close to walkways between the flat blocks , so that in future some vehicular access to some of the blocks is to be permitted , even though it undermines the integrity of the segregation principle . |
| 29 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 30 | It meant that philosophy was listening to what theologians were saying — even though it reserved the right to reject the theologian 's arguments . |