Example sentences of "even if [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 They never flee from combat , and will fight to the death even if repeatedly beaten by their opponents .
2 VPL 's Reality Built For Two — where two people can meet in Virtual Reality even if physically located in different continents
3 However , the opening attempt at such a panorama , even if well observed , can only be provisional .
4 Even if well fed , they can not stop searching and exploring , as this has become an end in itself in their behaviour repertoire .
5 It was thought unlikely that , even if successfully applied , the Florida statute could survive an appeal process .
6 However , in the world of Orwell 's 1984 there may be people who although sure that the events abolished by official historiography did happen , are not so sure that the experiences treasured in memory keep the value which official propaganda degrades ; they might be happier for the assurance that , in the sense that it remains true that an event happened even if universally forgotten an experience remains good even if in universally shrinking awareness there will never again be anyone capable of appreciating it .
7 In the eye of the Common Law there is plenty of land as good elsewhere ; but the purchaser has set his heart on just this piece of land , and damages ( even if liberally assessed , which is not always the case ) are not what he wants .
8 The loss was irreplaceable , and the pain was never forgotten , even if stoically shouldered .
9 In this period , the recognition of early flint scatters on the uplands or the coast , or the location of a settlement site , whether in a cave or not , can rarely be divorced from other contemporary sites in the vicinity , even if widely separated .
10 Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . )
11 Many of the children , even if not born in Ireland , were of Irish parents who had left behind appalling deprivation in their homeland and whose lives had been one long struggle for survival .
12 However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability .
13 The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined .
14 Johnson ( loc. cit. ) indeed , makes a good case for the mosaic as a product of a group of mosaicists based at Ilchester — an argument which , even if not accepted in detail ( section 4.8 ) , reminds us of the important affinities between this mosaic and others to the south .
15 Part of the charm of a sale is that the financial result is in itself a sort of critical judgement , reflecting even if not defining the taste and mood of the moment .
16 Thus a B.S.I. ( British Standards Institute ) standard , even if not incorporated into any safety regulations , could well be relevant .
17 In the GDR , as in the Soviet Union , the reformist trend could certainly be checked , even if not reversed .
18 Nineteenth century ‘ scientific racism ’ , with its discrete , hierarchical and inherited categories has been significantly challenged , even if not eliminated , from popular consciousness .
19 A long drawn-out sound would still be going on when the echo returned , and , even if partially muffled by send/receive muscles , would get in the way of detecting the echo .
20 A change of diagnosis was regarded as one in which manometry resulted in a diagnosis that had not previously been made by other investigations even if clinically suspected — for example a diagnosis of nutcracker oesophagus in a patient presenting with non-cardiac chest pain .
21 Leslie Hannah has argued that proof of this can be found in the growth of private pension schemes which , even if frequently initiated by employers for ‘ labour control ’ reasons , demonstrate that we have invented retirement because we want it .
22 Tackled player must promptly pass ball , even if still standing .
23 Consequently he assumed that tribes possessing the classificatory kinship system , even if now separate and speaking different languages , must once have shared a common origin .
24 His pale grey suit and suede jacket were stylish , even if now creased and grubby .
25 So Wilson 's work of ‘ Cader Idris ’ , even if only seen by Green as a print , must have been of seminal interest .
26 From the moment children leave the cosy nest of home , even if only to go to nursery school , parents lose the power to choose and control all their children 's friendships .
27 This might not only reduce the number of vexatious appeals but might also perhaps ensure that the appellant took the trouble to attend the hearing , even if only to collect his 2 .
28 Lyotard 's definition of postmodernism as the subversion of metanarratives , then the nouveau roman can be said to have rejected the totalizing metanarrative of existentialism , even if only to have replaced it with a literary-historical metanarrative of its own .
29 In the same vein of concentrated analysis ( and again , with rather an insufficiency of music examples ) Oliver Neighbour considers the authorship of certain anonymous keyboard pieces , most particularly a transcription of Byrd 's ‘ O quam gloriosum est regnum ’ Its procedures demonstrate the activity of a master hand ( not inconceivably Byrd 's own ) even if only to satisfy himself that the exercise was n't worth the candle .
30 Reverting to the analogy with corporations , at common law an ultra vires action by a corporation remains ultra vires for the protection of third parties , even if unanimously supported by all the shareholders .
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