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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Even if one rejected Mill 's answer to the question , ‘ What does it mean to say something is white ? ’ one might still hold there to be conditions which have to be satisfied for a colour-word to be used meaningfully .
4 Schmenner 's analogy is not a good one , even if one sympathizes with his sentiment .
5 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 .
6 Even if one takes a minimalist definition of feminism , the equality of women and men , is this the case .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 ‘ Incidentally , taking the old man 's philosophy to its logical end , I presume that one would be expected to destroy an enemy machine even if one knew that , say , the pilot were injured or out of ammunition , and therefore unable to fight back . ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Even if one does know that a compound exists there is no guarantee that the lexical information will be available .
16 Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals .
17 Of course one would n't change places with that poor old thing even if one had to look after fifteen small boys and a loony or so thrown in !
18 It was well-staged and well-sung ; and even if one had to put up with such seed pearls of wisdom as ‘ Beauty is in a lover 's eyes ’ , it was none the less a serious attempt to deal with the implications of the legend .
19 Even if one had never visited this part of England , the map would suggest that there are fundamental differences in the way in which the landscapes of the two halves of the counties have evolved .
20 The defendants were held not liable , as it was probable that the plaintiff would not have worn a safety belt and would therefore have fallen , even if one had been provided .
21 Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other 's horoscope in the newspapers , but without credulity : I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense , being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the ‘ rising sign ’ .
22 With some 22,000 students moving around within our city , even if one felt that a nominal sum should be paid — here I am looking after the interests of the hon. Member for City of Durham ( Mr. Steinberg ) whose lovely daughter is now a constituent of mine ; I trust that she will be sensible and know where to put her cross — it is clearly administratively impossible to handle and , given the changes in student support , that small relief will be welcome .
23 Even if one ignores any effects on the fetus and neonate , what about the mother ?
24 Does my right hon. Friend agree that even if one ignores what is happening in the former USSR , there are other countries in the world that are potential aggressors and which either have nuclear capacity or may be near to acquiring it ?
25 Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group .
26 Even if one gets different results , they are still publishable without necessarily running into head-on confrontation with the earlier claims .
27 Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him .
28 Still , even if one avoids mathematics , some of the ideas are unfamiliar and difficult to explain .
29 Even if one postulates continent-wide uplift to produce the conglomerate in such widely separated places , it is very difficult to explain why the source rock is also so remarkably similar from one end of Europe to the other .
30 Even if one thought that the pursuit of such predictions was useful , a great deal more information would be required , including a knowledge of the extent to which the rules were broken .
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