Example sentences of "even [conj] [pers pn] were [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Perhaps it will come as no surprise to my readers to hear not only that all knowledge of selling me a coffin was denied but even that they were now , or ever had been , coffin-manufacturers . |
| 2 | Even once we were acceptably coupled , though , the differences were obvious . |
| 3 | To ‘ love the motherland ’ was to embrace wholeheartedly the doctrines of the leadership , even if they were slightly contradictory . |
| 4 | She would find herself looking forward to their meetings and to their conversations even if they were slightly strange sometimes . |
| 5 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 6 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 7 | I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality . |
| 8 | Roads , nevertheless , still played an important part and would have been used by all and sundry , even if they were originally built for military and political reasons . |
| 9 | Finally , independent single-employer ( rather than association ) bargaining meant that US firms could still continue to deal with their own employees — even if they were now organised into trade unions — rather than be faced with an external trade union body against which they had fought for so long ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Even if they were only private eyes . |
| 11 | It 's no good having them , but I 've got a blue kitchen in my house , I wo I wo n't pay seven hundred quid anyway , that 's not bad for the money even if they were only six seventy quid |
| 12 | I am not sure if they have been deleted , or even if they were ever available for the C64 , but is there somewhere I can write to get my dream games ? |
| 13 | Even if they were sufficiently eminent , not all of the members of the Royal Society would have a place in the History of Science as we might think of it now . |
| 14 | Even if we were ultimately victorious at a public inquiry , the church would have suffered so grievously during the Waiting period that a large part of its artistic quality and integrity would have been lost . |
| 15 | As long ago as 1750 , Lord Hardwicke L.C. declared that it would be ‘ very mischievous ’ to seek to make one who was ‘ merely a witness ’ a party in order to obtain discovery ; even if he were properly examinable as a witness , his evidence could not be gathered in advance in this way . |
| 16 | ‘ Even if you were right — an absurd idea — what is there he could do about it ? |
| 17 | Falling ‘ If you want to sell , you 've got to be prepared to cut your price — even if you were once in charge of the economy . ’ |
| 18 | Even if you were only a few hundred miles away instead of a few thousand I could not leave her . |
| 19 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 20 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 21 | Yet the pollution control sections of the agencies are ultimately impotent to secure the compliance of their colleagues in sewage treatment , lacking recourse to the legal sanction ( even if it were organizationally possible to prosecute fellow-workers ) . |
| 22 | Even if it were only a dozen , they could with megaton bombs inflict widespread devastation . |
| 23 | Even if it were only a few hundred pounds , five hundred , six , I would n't be standing here sick with worry … |
| 24 | But once you 'd lied — even if it were only by implication or simply by failing to deny something — you were forced to go on lying . |
| 25 | Such a policy would work even if it were fully announced , provided that expectations were formed in the way we have assumed . |
| 26 | Even if it were technically possible , Russia does not have the money to do it . |
| 27 | Even if she were finally cleared by Nick Morley 's investigation , she would remain guilty by association in the eyes of many racecourse insiders . |
| 28 | Had Becky got there before him , he wondered , even if she were only living in digs ? |
| 29 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 30 | You must be heartbroken , you were always so close , I mean even after you were no longer … |