Example sentences of "even [conj] it has [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 2 | The use of Form N111 , even if it has become ‘ obsolete , ’ was in fact more appropriate than the use of Form N79 , although it suffers from the same defect as the High Court form in that it does not draw the attention of the contemnor to his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 3 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 4 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 5 | As far as our own history is concerned , feminist criticism shows that Western philosophy has been consistently masculine in orientation even while it has changed its preoccupations and methods . |
| 6 | What the Firearms Act provides is a series of inchoate or preventive offences which criminalize conduct even before it has reached the stage of an attempt to commit some substantive offence . |
| 7 | To prove my point , it is a well-known fact that barbel quite often grab the ‘ feeder itself , sometimes even before it has reached bottom . |
| 8 | Nothing is sacred , even after it has undergone positive vetting . |
| 9 | Few people realise what an enormous achievement Concorde represents , even after it has demonstrated its capability of flying from New York to London or Paris in about three hours over a sustained operation for many years . |
| 10 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 11 | It keeps walking straight ahead even after it has found a bit of food . |
| 12 | From this mockery they are unable to set free the immortal soul , even after it has attained wisdom , and believe it to be proceeding unceasingly to false blessedness and returning unceasingly to true misery … . |
| 13 | During my discussions with President Yeltsin , he explicitly accepted the disproportion between the British nuclear deterrent , Trident , and the nuclear capacity that will be available to the Soviet Union even after it has carried out the reductions to which it has committed itself , and which will take a decade or more to implement . |
| 14 | Wayans prides himself on his no-sacred-cows approach to comedy , even when it has led to controversy . |
| 15 | Looking back from the vantage point of the twentieth-century ‘ welfare state ’ we can also see , however , that every state , even when it has had a primarily repressive character , has also performed other necessary functions in the coordination and regulation of complex societies , especially through the development of a system of law , and in some cases — as with the Roman Empire — has had a generally civilizing influence . |
| 16 | Informix Corp does not want to raise its stated goal of a 20% pre-tax gross margin , even though it has exceeded that goal in recent quarters , chairman and chief executive Phillip White told the conference . |
| 17 | of the posts identified , but , even though it has done very well , it has somewhat further to go . |
| 18 | Given the wide scope of the charge to CGT , a large number of exemptions from this tax bite are granted to make the system fair and workable , A company may be able to avoid CGT liability even though it has made gains of a capital nature , by means of various reliefs and allowances . |
| 19 | Any loan from the bank involves a risk of default , and the bank will be concerned about this even though it has sought security from the firm . |
| 20 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 21 | There is still a three-month waiting list for the cars , but even so , Caterham saw its turnover drop from a £9.4m peak in 1991 to £8.3m this year , and is forecasting a further drop next year , even though it has managed to increase its export sales a little . |
| 22 | And that 's the valve , we , we , call it valve business basic , it 's done at Dunstable , it 's not the same as the sort of resolving style er gears , even though it has got a gear to produce a and it joins it later on , so there 's the other ball bearings business for the gears , yeah ? |
| 23 | This is leading towards the idea of ‘ invariance of mass ’ — there is still the same amount even though it has changed form . |
| 24 | That is to say that a word in bold in your word processor file should still be bold when it gets onto the page , even though it has changed from being monospaced typescript to a real typeface and may be in a different size altogether . |