Example sentences of "even if [pron] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This being the case , it 's hardly surprising that the bucket seats grip you like a pair of pliers , that the suspension shakes your spine on potholed surfaces and that the engine noise makes a stereo unnecessary , even if one was provided . |
| 2 | Moreoever , even if one were to do this the fact of setting up the control and the experimental groups could well introduce a note of artificiality into the experiment . |
| 3 | But even if one were to follow a couple for a whole day on repeated occasions , would this do justice to the full range , texture and history of the changing day-to-day relations between mother and child ? |
| 4 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 5 | It seems to me that when one looks at the brief findings and reasons of the justices given at the conclusion of the hearing , or even if one were to look at the more elaborate reasons which they have compiled subsequently for the purpose of his appeal , then their decision was plainly wrong . |
| 6 | In most cases , there are insufficient surviving remains to make it worthwhile conserving the site for public display : if it has been fully excavated , all that may remain to be seen are , literally , a few depressions in the natural subsoil , even if what was excavated above was quite spectacular . |
| 7 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 8 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 9 | He will have no defence if the instructions were such that even if they were followed the offence was still likely to be committed . |
| 10 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 11 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 12 | Even if they were reading or washing up , there seemed to be rays of heat running in the air between them . |
| 13 | Carol and Ron encouraged the duo — even if they were baffled as to where their talent had come from . |
| 14 | In such practices the links , for example , between food rioting for " just prices " and persisting in lighting bonfires in public places on 5 November even if they were regarded as " nuisances " by authorities , are evident . |
| 15 | Under German law , though anyone of German ancestry can claim citizenship , and thus the vote , no matter where they were born , the children and grandchildren of immigrants to Germany are not entitled to citizenship , even if they were born there . |
| 16 | But the nomadic lifestyle of the travellers means that even if they were recognised by law , it would be difficult to provide sites for them ; |
| 17 | But even if they were involved only with implementation , they would still be extremely powerful because of the importance of administration in determining exactly what people get from government . |
| 18 | Even if they were noted , they might not survive for longer than the solution of the particular case or point . |
| 19 | The separate populations would first constitute mere varieties of the original species , but as the modifications accumulated they would eventually become distinct species in their own right , unable to interbreed with the parent form even if they were brought back into contact with it . |
| 20 | Many do not remain sufficiently long as temporary workers or with any one agency to be entitled to any rights even if they were to have dependent employee status . |
| 21 | It was time for the deadly follow-up — the Offensive Offensive in which John Major would savage his opponents , even if they were sitting on the benches behind him . |
| 22 | Manufacturers selling a wide range of products over a wide geographical area to a market numbered in millions would find it prohibitively expensive to set up their own Highstreet stores , even if they were permitted to proliferate in this way . |
| 23 | A ) I would n't do it anyway , even if they were doing four , and B ) it would be difficult to keep up the quality over 65 programmes ! |
| 24 | Would men , misled into fighting for a cause which , in spite of claims made on its behalf , was a war fought for the wrong motives , be eternally damned if they met their death suddenly in battle , even if they were fighting out of loyalty to their king ? |
| 25 | Now we knew they had accepted the box as their home and would probably come back to it even if they were allowed out in the open . |
| 26 | A thin line of light around the edge indicated that at least the range was alight , even if nobody was sitting by it . |
| 27 | So even if somebody were to offer us a piece which they would n't I 'm sure , a piece of old medieval furniture , we would n't take it . |
| 28 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 29 | Even if we were to order the repayment of the whole sum at once , the amount would be less than if you were paying tax of a lawful fifteenth of your movable goods . |
| 30 | Even if we were to include the value attributed to armaments in PP4 we would only arrive at a total of 21,019 . |