Example sentences of "even if it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Christian view of life , death and afterlife as a continuum not only supplied a happy ending to the human story , but could also ‘ justify God 's ways to man ’ , in so far as the good man would be rewarded for a well-spent life , even if it seemed to have been dogged by misfortune . |
| 2 | The suggestion of fatherly closeness was essential , even if it seemed awkward and difficult to illustrate . |
| 3 | Susannah Creese 's Asparagus Triptych , which won the young artists ' award , was the best thing in the show , even if it seemed hardly to be a watercolour . |
| 4 | My stomach turned over as I watched the ball heading for the out-of-bounds , but to my relief it looked as though it had stayed in , even if it seemed in an awful spot . |
| 5 | So even if it managed to escape from the scientists ' clutches in Britain , it could not turn into another exotic pest , like the mink in Britain or the rabbit in Australia . |
| 6 | The algal mat deposit is strongly diachronous to us ephemeral human beings , but even if it extended for hundreds of miles inland it would still be virtually synchronous geologically . |
| 7 | London Transport said it would not have dismissed strike leaders even if it knew their identity , for fear of bringing the Underground system to a halt . |
| 8 | because there must be some give and take in the deal and the Purchaser would probably proceed on the same terms even if it knew of a few minor breaches — the Purchaser should not be able to bring a claim after completion for those kinds of problems ; |
| 9 | Even if it failed , the attempted takeover was remarkably well planned and executed . |
| 10 | In my ignorance of electricity I would have believed her , even if it sounded unusual . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1989 David Calcutt , Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , was asked to lead an inquiry , and , sure enough , fifteen months later came up with proposals which appeared to satisfy both government and proprietors , even if it left victims distinctly underwhelmed . |
| 12 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 13 | The more cross-holdings there are , the less chance of success for any outside raid on Hongkong Land , even if it had semi-official backing from the Chinese government . |
| 14 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 15 | But even if it had been believed in Paris , there was a further complication in that the actual renunciation had come not from Leopold but from his father ( whom the Paris papers now labelled ‘ Father Anthony ’ ) , which in itself seemed a curious procedure . |
| 16 | Nobody could have been better qualified to construct a consensus , even if it had to be temporary , from the new and angular alternatives that were now being proposed for the future of secondary schooling . |
| 17 | Classic Maya civilization appears to have collapsed some 600 years before the Spanish conquest of Central America , but even if it had survived it seems inevitable that the Maya obsession with time would have remained a historical curiosity with no influence on the modern world . |
| 18 | And , even if it had to be done by a department , could it be done with fewer people in a different and more managerially efficient way ? |
| 19 | The final stage in the experimental procedure would have been vacuum distillation of the amine , at which point having bis(azide) present would have certainly led to an explosion , even if it had not occurred earlier . |
| 20 | There were no landmarks , no features by which they could determine their position even if it had been light enough to see them . |
| 21 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 22 | I would n't have recognized it , the difference , even if it had been there . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ If I had n't known you could by last night , ’ she retorted , ‘ I 'd have got me a spare staff nurse even if it had meant taking this bloody hospital apart . |
| 24 | But as the limits of the human memory did not enable men to retain beyond a very limited number of names ; and even if it had , as it would have required a most inconvenient portion of time , to run over in discourse , as many names of individuals , and of individual qualities , as there is occasion to refer to in discourse , it was necessary to have contrivances of abridgment . |
| 25 | Even if it had survived , it is a moot point how long this bias would have been tolerated by West Germany . |
| 26 | Even so , the potential gain from a lower rate — even if it had been negotiable through the International Monetary Fund — is not easy to estimate because of the problems of relative elasticities of demand for both exports and imports and the problem of the cost effects of higher import prices , not least as they would have affected wage bargaining [ Ball , 1967 ] . |
| 27 | Last month a new law was passed , allowing former owners to claim back their land , even if it had been built over . |
| 28 | First , is it right that a remedy should be refused because the respondent would have made the same decision even if it had not acted illegally ? |
| 29 | Satisfied with Kozlenkov 's story , and on the basis of provenance and advice on the legal position , even if it had been looted , Sotheby 's therefore approached the Schlossmuseum Gotha . |
| 30 | Even if it had been otherwise , it still would not have followed that the unions should as of right share in the control of those resources they did not own : land and buildings , plant and equipment , and finance . |