Example sentences of "even [conj] [noun pl] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if cubs had been reared on human flesh , they did not persist in man-eating once they had grown up . |
| 2 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 3 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |
| 4 | The competitive weakness of the British economy was truly overdetermined : even if the financial institutions had been more disposed towards promoting industrial investment , even if managements had been more competent and imaginative , the restructuring of industry would still have run up against the formidable defensive conservatism of the organised working class . |
| 5 | Even after projects had been assigned to particular producers , directors and writers , they remained studio properties , discussed at round-table discussions involving all the key people who worked there . |
| 6 | These problems remained , even after objectives had been partially clarified and formalized through grant financing and stringent financial controls . |
| 7 | So that even when suspicions had been roused and blood tests called for , Marie was convinced the baby she was nurturing was her own . |
| 8 | The sold percentages of Christie 's and Sotheby 's in 1991 averaged just 71% even though reserves had been pushed 20% or so below the boom levels of 1988/89 . |