Example sentences of "even [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , the concept of centralisation will apply even where something concerns only one Member State if it conforms with the objectives of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 2 | Even where there has been continuity in party organization changes of orientation have occurred . |
| 3 | It is clear from the right hon. Gentleman 's first attempt to amend regulation 72 that the Government 's motive is to save money and administration — the motive is so absolutely blatant that I am amazed that even the Parliamentary Under-Secretary , whose eccentricities are well known , could not deny the obvious — while , at the same time , blocking or restricting back payments of entitlement , even where there has been official error . |
| 4 | Moreover , even where it has been demonstrated that long tails are costly but are preferred by choosy females , resolving how such preferences have evolved is difficult , particularly if females gain no direct benefits from their choice of mating partners . |
| 5 | Most parents are loath to talk about this situation , even where it exists . |
| 6 | There is little right of reply on radio and television and even where it exists it is not particularly likely to be heard by the audience of the original programme . |
| 7 | Even where he does show an interest in ‘ education ’ it is , as we have seen , only as a preventive device aimed at the public at large . |
| 8 | It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation . |
| 9 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 10 | Some would argue even that she casts a heavy shadow over present negotiations on the political future of South Africa . |
| 11 | He made me forget everything — even that he belongs to someone else — that he 's going to be married in just a few weeks . |
| 12 | First , because identification with one 's community is morally worthwhile , and acceptance of the authority of the state an appropriate way ( though not the only way ) to express it , one may jump to the conclusion that one has an obligation to accept the authority of the state , or even that it has authority independently of such acceptance . |
| 13 | Realism is radical because any purposive attempt to change the world depends on a conviction that it can be described , even that it has been described ; and it is the chosen task of realism to describe . |
| 14 | For the visual computations algorithmically defined by Ullman do not depend on high-level processes capable of identifying ( recognizing ) objects as members of a specific class : the system does not need to know that an object is a fish , or even that it has the 3-D shape that it has , in order to know that it is an object . |
| 15 | We realise that this prospectus may not answer all your questions , or even that it contains so much information that it leaves you confused . |
| 16 | I do n't mean helmeted sentries literally do patrol the walls by night , I do n't mean even that anything 's actually been seen , but the things that go on in people 's minds are realities , and do influence events . |
| 17 | Clegg could not release Miranda , the only way of making her happy , and face the punishment , but his selfish desire to have her always with him overrides a desire for her good , even once she becomes seriously ill . |
| 18 | But even if one considers those women in the modern western world who are less fortunate , they still have , for example , an entirely different legal status than had a first-century woman . |
| 19 | In fact , even if one considers just those with jobs , only four business areas employed 10 per cent or more of students with work , and only seven had 5 per cent or above . |
| 20 | Schmenner 's analogy is not a good one , even if one sympathizes with his sentiment . |
| 21 | Even if one takes a sceptical view of the applicability of the laws of war to nuclear weapons , it does not follow that the laws of war are irrelevant in the nuclear age . |
| 22 | Even if one takes a minimalist definition of feminism , the equality of women and men , is this the case . |
| 23 | However , even if one takes the view that King 's Cross is essential , there are better and more appropriate ways of building and developing a new station at King 's Cross than the one that British Rail has effectively forced upon us . |
| 24 | Even if one agrees with Aristotle that true equality consists in treating unequals unequally , this merely raises the apparently insoluble question of how it can be practically achieved . |
| 25 | Even if one discounts this problem , there is the question as to whether the tradition of authority and concern with social discipline is sufficient in itself to define Conservatism and to distinguish it from other ideologies . |
| 26 | Anyway , these must not be dismissed with hasty suggestions ; it is extremely important to my mind not to discredit the zoophile cause by sounding idiotic and to take great notice of the knowledgeable people who are concerned with managing these creatures even if one does not like their attitudes . |
| 27 | Even if one does think of self-consciousness as perceiving one 's own activities rather than heeding them ( as one also heeds the perceived ) , there is no obvious reason why one should not be perceiving as thought and emotion what to the eye would be neural process , just as when , with the same experience of temporal change without spatial extension , one hears as sound what one would see as vibrations . |
| 28 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 29 | Even if one does not believe in the principle of intellectual conservation of quantity , the same amount of study time is being poured into different shaped vessels , one tall and narrow , the other flat and wide . |
| 30 | Even if one does know that a compound exists there is no guarantee that the lexical information will be available . |