Example sentences of "even [conj] it is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury is still out on the Criminal Justice Act , even if it is swinging towards the negative rather than the positive . |
| 2 | Obviously positive inflation may remain a feature of this hypothetical economy even if it is operating at the natural unemployment rate ( i.e. owing to the persistence of inflationary expectations . |
| 3 | She has monopolized your attention ; even if it is scolding it is rewarding ( after all the behaviour is as persistent as ever ) . |
| 4 | I wonder if that is fair , even if it is going to ease the burden on hard-up viewers ? |
| 5 | to tell his constituents that with London 's share of world trade in financial services is increasing and is now at twenty seven percent that the financial services sector round the U K four point three billion , that those employees that he refers to are in fact in an industry which even if it is redistributing employment it 's nevertheless growing . |
| 6 | Talking ( even if it is talking to yourself or your dog or your prize marrow ) nourishes and builds your aural memory-bank and uses your own ‘ speech experience ’ which aids speechreading . |
| 7 | ‘ The need for proof is essential because many organisations fail to recognise bullying , even when it is causing serious disruption within their workforce . |
| 8 | contribution , even though it is costing up to two and a half times more to collect than the revenue raised . |
| 9 | The company also reports continuing strong sales of its Mips RISC-based systems in Europe and Asia , even though it is moving its product lines over to the Alpha AXP RISC . |
| 10 | But they still have n't kept pace with the population even though it is slowing down now . |
| 11 | Since opposite charges attract , the reason why the electron does not gravitate towards the nucleus but stays in orbit around it ( even though it is radiating and losing its energy in doing so ) is because it retains a certain energy called ‘ ground-state energy ’ . |
| 12 | It is clear that the individual is not acting rationally in this example : the expectation error is increasing every year and the individual is failing to predict inflation even though it is rising by a constant amount every year and is caused by the same factor ( monetary growth ) every year . |