Example sentences of "even [subord] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ? |
| 4 | The chantry certificates of 1545 , even if one accepts their record of communicants in the parishes as accurate , do not cover the whole country , and again there is uncertainty as to the proportion of the population below communicant age . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Clearly they have no power to do so , even if somebody asks them to , somebody from outside for instance , erm , and , and also when they do get a fire certificate , is there a display for it ? |
| 7 | Although he suggests that the three possibilities need not be mutually exclusive , Baker 's sympathies clearly lie with the last of these ; but many scientists still need convincing that man can make use of a built-in magnetic compass , even if he possesses one . |
| 8 | Even if he lets them do something . |
| 9 | Of course he will feel jealous when a new baby arrives on the scene — even if he does his best not to show it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's not God , even if he thinks he is . ’ |
| 12 | He is n't the director here , even if he thinks he is . |
| 13 | If you knock at the door of the gamekeeper 's house and he comes to the door wearing an antler head-dress , a black satin robe with a pentangle on it , and is holding a headless bleeding chicken in one hand , then even if he gives you permission to camp , think about going to a B & B. Some country folk are best left to their own devices . |
| 14 | Even if he makes it he wo n't be up and around for a month at least . ’ |
| 15 | It is too early yet to say how useful the discourse approach will be , but even if it achieves nothing else , it can at least be claimed to have shown the inadequacy of attempting to analyse the function of intonation on the basis of isolated sentences or tone-units , removed from their linguistic and situational context . |
| 16 | There is controversy over whether this sort of fusion occurs under pressure inside the Earth , or inside the heavier Jupiter , but even if it does it is at levels that are useless for commercial fusion . |
| 17 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply . |
| 18 | Even if it wastes your time . |
| 19 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 20 | The men also look very fine in their long curly wigs ( even if it takes their partners a little while to get used to them ) . |
| 21 | Cor even if it takes you three days ! |
| 22 | ‘ Give us a couple o' bob an' I 'll come up the stairs an' carry the bloody fing dawn , even if it kills me in the process . |
| 23 | If you set over-ambitious targets ( " I 'm going to finish this assignment tonight — even if it kills me ! " ) and fail to achieve them , you simply reinforce your sense of guilt and failure . |
| 24 | ‘ You mean you 're going to help even if it kills me ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ People who hang on to their land and property even if it kills them , so we 've never had to worry about money and that 's why we 're such nice people . ’ |
| 26 | It is clear that the core of the upper class certainly do differentiate themselves from the broader middle class , even if it suits them to call themselves ‘ middle class ’ when asked . |
| 27 | Agnew , however , is not certain that he wants to uproot his family — even if it gives him a chance to resurrect his career . |
| 28 | Her old tutor is horrified , but her husband says he supports the hunger strike -- even if it claims her life . |
| 29 | Quite often it has n't and even if it has it may be helpful to call the recipient with information on delivery and timing . |
| 30 | Even if it costs us a few hundred quid , it 's been worth it . |