Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [vb -s] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if one accepts that auditors are capable of providing information about business risks that is useful to investors and other parties , it is questionable whether the benefits of extending the auditor 's role in this direction are likely to outweigh the costs . |
| 2 | Even if one accepts that the thesis accounts for why blacks are overrepresented in reactive activities such as boxing and soccer , and underrepresented in self-paced sports such as golf and swimming , it does not explain why blacks do not excel in such reactive sports as motor racing , tennis , fencing , squash or even skiing ! |
| 3 | For example , even if one accepts that a man ought to pay his mistress , to require him to support her children , even if he is not their father , seems outrageous . |
| 4 | Even if one knows that an ancestor was buried in a certain parish , finding the appropriate registration district in the indexes can be problematic . |
| 5 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 6 | The basic situation which I contemplate is a patient in hospital refusing all but nursing attendance , or the patient at home refusing all care , even if it means that he will be left alone . |
| 7 | Chris disapproves strongly of artificial methods of rearing , even if it means that he may only get one or two fry from a brood . |
| 8 | You can then pay bills immediately , using a separate chequebook , even if it means that you slip into the red . |
| 9 | Instead of selling it off we should invest , even if it means that taxpayers have to contribute . |
| 10 | Andy supports the inclusion of squirt boats as a compulsory class , even if it means that competitors need to train beforehand , rather than having separate events for squirt and float boats . |
| 11 | And of course you shall live the life which you have decided on — as Mama and I have lived ours — even if it means that we lose you . ’ |
| 12 | That would help to show the universal determination of all parties in the House to achieve an answer that will provide a proper future for British agriculture and enable me at least to be able to tell my companions in the negotiations that there are things that matter so much to us that we will sit there until we achieve them , even if it means that we will sit there for many more months to come . |
| 13 | If it 's gon na plague him and give him trouble let's get it sorted out this year , even if it means that he has a little bit of temporary deafness for a little while , you know ? |
| 14 | ‘ It must be got rid of even if it means that the Prime Minister goes down with her own flagship ’ . |
| 15 | Yet one understands and sympathizes with the reader who urges for that word to be said ( even as he/she understands that it can not be ) , and no amount of earnest preaching that this is the way things are , that no certainties can be reached , will attenuate the sense of frustration that accompanies our contemplation of the ruins . |
| 16 | The plot is more than faintly ludicrous but the music is Rossini at his most inspired — even when one suspects that he is writing with tongue in cheek . |
| 17 | Indeed , Landry is mistaken even when she claims that the poems are silent on the question of lower class marriage : in ‘ The Month of August ’ , for example , Phillis , a country girl , believes that she will be happy in marriage to a man of her own class , and Leapor does not undermine that suggestion . |
| 18 | Change haunts Spenser , even when he acknowledges that a providential order is operating . |
| 19 | No need to worry — they they 'll be queuing up for me , ’ even though everyone knows that the whole area 's been appallingly hit by the recession and that the whole country , come to that , is in much the same state . |
| 20 | Confession is the strategy which minimises the maximum jail sentence the prisoner can receive , and this minimax strategy is the best one , even though it ensures that the prisoner can not receive the lowest sentence allowed by the ‘ game ’ , the one year for a lesser offence . |
| 21 | If he does so , the auctioneer can make the purchaser pay the full price again , even though it means that the purchaser pays twice over . ’ |
| 22 | Ken 's agreed to run on our policies and our ticket , ’ even though he acknowledges that they suit him better than Ken . |
| 23 | Clive James should have stayed with book-reviewing : his destruction of ‘ Princess Daisy ’ must be the funniest thing he ever wrote , even though he admits that ‘ to pour abuse on a book like this makes no more sense than to kick a powder-puff ’ . |