Example sentences of "even [conj] we [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we believed that the public interest could perhaps be equated with goals supported by a broad social consensus so that the spectre of management indulging its own personal moral and political preferences under the guise of pursuing socially worthwhile goals no longer haunted us difficulties would still remain . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , even if we know that a urinary rhythm is due partly to the body clock , we can not yet be confident about details of the way in which this clock produces the rhythms in renal elimination . |
| 3 | Even if we knew that , for example , the 1989 sales were 10,000 copies , what are the levels of sales for 1990 or 1991 ? |
| 4 | He never asserts , however , that even if we accepted that animals have rights , we could never justify infringing them . |
| 5 | Thus , even if we assume that a significant proportion are well supported either by relatives or by services purchased with their own money , it is highly probable that personal social services see only the tip of an iceberg of unmet needs . |
| 6 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 7 | I have already indicated in Chapter 2 that , even if we assume that true observational statements are available to us in some way , it is never possible to arrive at universal laws and theories by logical deductions on that basis alone . |
| 8 | Even if we assume that seasonal usage is constant but prices increase by 10 per cent p.a. , we produce a difference : |
| 9 | Even if we admit that an element of calculation usually enters into racist practices , rather than blind hatred , it is clear that this model ignores the deeper reaches of the racist imagination , the structures of feeling and phantasy which are embedded in even the most rationalized forms of racist argument and action . |
| 10 | This is a most pathetic piece of pontification , even if we appreciate that modern artists are some of the greatest censors of art ( i.e. Rauschenberg erasing de Kooning ) . |
| 11 | But even if we discover that vineyards vanished from south east England at a time when the climate was getting colder , we still do not know for sure why they disappeared . |
| 12 | The first is that even if we concluded that a representative democracy was the best that could be achieved under modern circumstances , the idea or principle of representation is far from being fully or effectively embodied in existing political arrangements . |
| 13 | Even if we notice that the new dog has become a follower , we regard it as part of a strong friendship . |
| 14 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 15 | But even if we accept that there is a significant difference between the ‘ legal ’ and ‘ political ’ processes in the way in which decisions are reached , they would both still come firmly within the definition of power we adopted in part I , that is the ability to get others to do what you want them to , assuming this is different from what they would have done anyway , with the use or threat of sanctions if necessary . |
| 16 | Even if we agree that these kinds of assumptions have some general validity , the questions that then stem from them are equally complex . |
| 17 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
| 18 | It is , however , easy to become anxious about applying the Technique in our day-to-day lives , even though we may have been shown what to do and even though we know that our ordinary sensory perception may be faulty . |
| 19 | Even though we know that comparatively we 're all millionaires . |
| 20 | Bob Ewell who is the father of the so called victim , Mayella , is prepared to use his influence as a white to get Tom convicted even though we know that it is Bob Ewell who should be taking the punishment as it is made clear in the trial that he is the person who abuses Mayella not Tom . |