Example sentences of "even [conj] it does [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it does go outside , there is little to hunt on the manicured lawns , and no serious threat from feline neighbours . |
| 2 | However , this level of unreasonableness is hardly the norm , and even if it does exist would be difficult to prove . |
| 3 | But with the last cut in the discount and Lombard rates in early February , and further reductions expected in the coming months , it clearly recognises the need for lower rates even if it does adhere to its policy of small steps . |
| 4 | And even if it does capture a market , there is always the risk it may find itself losing customers to cheaper rivals , such as tempeh and tofu , once the initial suspicions of meat alternatives are overcome . |
| 5 | A reputation for being fair , just , reasonable and courageous is worth winning even if it does mean occasionally upsetting some people . |
| 6 | ‘ I think the picture is excellent , ’ she declares with touching , if shortsighted , loyalty , though she admits she was n't over the moon about the trailer promoting ‘ The bitch is back ! ’ even if it does refer to the mother alien monster . |
| 7 | Reality , though , need not be as hopeless as we think , even if it does appear to take longer to recover from injuries and the task of regaining fitness seems to take an eternity . |
| 8 | Nothing wrong with that , you might think , even if it does represent more than 70 times last year 's earnings — a price-earnings ratio of Japanese proportions . |
| 9 | That looks pricey , missing both the personal computer and sub-$5,000 price points the company has been talking about , even if it does offer more floating point performance than Intel Corp 's high-end 486DX-50 chip . |
| 10 | There are a number of suitable subjects , all of which should do reasonably well , even if it does get cool . |
| 11 | They 've sacrificed some of their originality for a more ‘ contemporary ’ sound , yet it 's encouraging that they show such willingness to innovate — even if it does sound as if they 're still stumbling through the undergrowth . |
| 12 | ‘ On the contrary , it 's because … dash it , I 'll say it even if it does sound sloppy ! |
| 13 | erm you know even if it does come in late so we can say oh yes I remember this person sort of thing , you know |
| 14 | As the B-1R is , after all , designed to be racked , it looks a bit daft sitting on top of the 4x10 , even if it does allow you to whack all the necessary connections together in about thirty seconds flat . |
| 15 | Even if it does happen , it does not force the conclusion that speaker 1 has monitored speaker 2 's speech and made an assessment of how often speaker 2 uses that variant . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's very difficult to do because if you are n't careful you just write down a series of platitudes , but I think that a statement of aims and beliefs is very necessary even if it does look platitudinous . ’ |
| 17 | See Dentdale in summer when the hay meadows are on fire with wild flowers and the roadsides are crowded with the pale lilac of the bell flowers and you will find it hard to disagree with one early writer 's description of Dentdale as " an earthly paradise " , even if it does have a vampire buried in its churchyard . |
| 18 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 19 | This is an enjoyable collection , even if it does seem to lack the careful planning so evident in the rest of this outstanding series . ( ) |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm pleased to find that your sense of humour is still intact , even if it does seem to be a shade cynical . |
| 21 | Now it can be argued that the mere collection of information about named persons is not in itself necessarily wrong ; even if it does offend against good taste — like the prying neighbour behind the lace curtains — it is hardly an area for the heavy hand of the law . |
| 22 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 23 | Even when it does get to them , they seem fairly insecticide-tolerant . |
| 24 | Repeated official and unofficial enquiries have suggested that the foreign exporting sector buys very little that is of Irish manufacture , and even when it does buy locally it tends to buy low value-added goods , like packaging materials and industrial consumables . |
| 25 | None but the dedicated fusion watcher would want to read what is essentially a conference report , even though it does contain a scattering of important insights into the prospects for fusion . |
| 26 | Even though it does seem to have taken over the house a bit . ’ |