Example sentences of "even [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as we shall see , even where they directly contradict the evidence of the senses , false beliefs may yet continue unabashed and display a quite remarkable resilience . |
| 2 | Managerialist attitudes have also had an impact , with a few authorities ( particularly on the radical right ) preferring a managing director model , which downgrades corporate management and has sometimes undermined Bains-type arrangements even where they formally continue in existence . |
| 3 | The most powerful ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ are those taken for the learning of shamanic powers , and in the Piaroa theory of knowledge , men who do undergo them are the best hunters in Piaroaland , even if they rarely hunt ( Overing 1988 ) . |
| 4 | However , Gershuny 's ( 1983 ) work has shown that married women typically spend more time on housework than their husbands , even if they also have paid employment . |
| 5 | Not only have they made it worse , they knew they would ; even if they genuinely thought their policies were somehow better for Britain as a whole , they knew damn well they 'd put hundreds of thousands of people out of work , and Saatchi & Saatchi must have known that , too , if they 'd bothered to think . |
| 6 | So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank . |
| 7 | even our grandchildren were , I mean er right from the beginning even if they only go and sit in the surgery and just watch , ju you know just go and visit |
| 8 | The British played " a constructive part in helping to maintain world order " , even if they now had to rely on " ideas and dexterity rather than military might " . |
| 9 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 10 | That being so , are these institutions in a position , even if they so desire , to guarantee the student freedoms argued for here ? |
| 11 | It is increasingly difficult for the establishment elites to retain dominance over all this new activity , even if they still have charge of the key institutions such as the Bank of England . |
| 12 | Beth 's experience suggests that people do n't change deep down , even if they really want to try to please their partner . |
| 13 | Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen . |
| 14 | The party 's decline can best be traced via the decline in the proportion of people who ‘ identify ’ with it — that is , think of themselves as being Labour supporters even if they occasionally vote for some other party . |
| 15 | Parents who make demands which are regarded as excessive are resented by their children ( even if they actually meet some of those demands ) , as are those who engage in emotional manipulation or divide the sibling group against each other ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , ch. 12 ) . |
| 16 | There has been the growth of feminist bookshops , research and resources centres , publishing houses , journals and magazines — even if they usually exist on shoe-string budgets . |
| 17 | had repercussions for all commandos , for they were strictly uniformed troops , even if they sometimes appeared off enemy coasts under flags of convenience . |
| 18 | The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils . |
| 19 | That 'll please the BEF … be able to handle 'em in practice even if they never fire 'em in anger . ’ |
| 20 | Even if they never come back to Britain Balil and Samir will remember some things forever . |
| 21 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 22 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 23 | Or will it be a worse society if it has been deceived , just for that reason alone , because it is never in people 's true interests to lie to them , even if they never discover the lie ? |
| 24 | Levine contends that these tracts , even as they confidently sermonize on the fixed nature of identity , especially gender identity as prescribed by God and signified through dress difference , display a deep anxiety that identity is not fixed ; that , underneath , the self is really nothing at all ( ‘ Men in Women 's Clothing ’ , 126 and 128 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 26 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 27 | And the Protestants ' only hope of redressing the imbalance of power created by the French lay in turning to the English , even though they well knew that protestations of Anglo-Scottish friendship and desire for union in no way wiped out the instinctive hostility between Scots and English which ran so deep that half a century later it would still cause grievous problems for the first king of Britain . |
| 28 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 29 | A MOTORIST who witnessed a violent street robbery has failed to answer police pleas for help — even though they probably hold the vital key to solving the crime . |
| 30 | erm What I 've I 've had a look at their team on paper , and erm they 're not strong enough and erm you know , they need more than Marvin at the moment ; they need two or three good blokes , they 're a bit too sort of erm balanced really , you know , they have n't got any big fire power , so erm you know , I think they 're in a bit of a spot down there , even though they probably think they 're not . |