Example sentences of "even [conj] it seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The suggestion of fatherly closeness was essential , even if it seemed awkward and difficult to illustrate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even if it seems inappropriately mentioned , any fall used as part of the design has to be carefully worked out . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't be afraid of naming a price , even if it seems exorbitant . |
| 8 | If you want to make a trip to China then , even while it seems an impossible dream , start planning that trip . |
| 9 | In any event , and this is the real answer , Bismarck had not yet given up hope of bringing his scheme to a successful conclusion and even though it seemed difficult to envisage just how this could be done , he waited for his moment . |
| 10 | Sheldrake 's hypothesis predicts that it should be easier for people who do not speak Turkish to learn the real rhyme , even though it seems no less opaque to non-Turkish speakers than the fake one , because millions of Turks have already learned the rhyme in the past . |
| 11 | A particularly striking combination is made up of a very dark , bronze-leaved phormium next to the pure white flowers of Physostegia virginiana ‘ Alba ’ which is one of the easiest of all late summer border plants , even though it seems to be out of fashion at the moment . |
| 12 | But a body may be subject to judicial review even if the powers it exercises have no identifiable legal source ; so , for example , a refusal by a non-governmental , non-statutory licensing body , such as a horse-racing or boxing control body , to grant a licence to an applicant may be subject to judicial review even though it seems to be the case that before a licence is granted , no contract exists between the applicant and the licensing body . |
| 13 | Even though it seems only to have been conditional independence the terms were so alarming to General Valluy that he flew back to Paris to warn the French Government and the outcome was a special cabinet meeting at which hardly anyone supported the Bollaert initiative . |
| 14 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 15 | There has been considerable criticism recently of this approach , even though it seems to be now so firmly entrenched in many schools . |