Example sentences of "even [conj] it [vb past] 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 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I always wanted to ease it off , even if it prolonged the agony . |
| 5 | Now they are impatient with a government that cut their pay by 10% ( even if it restored the cuts later ) . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was far short of unambiguous espousal , even though it upset the old planners . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It meant that philosophy was listening to what theologians were saying — even though it reserved the right to reject the theologian 's arguments . |