Example sentences of "even if it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it falls down after that , they 're alright . |
| 2 | Answer two : a crime novel may still be crime fiction , as opposed to pure fiction , even if it abandons altogether that prime staple of blueprint detective fiction , the murder puzzle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The suggestion of fatherly closeness was essential , even if it seemed awkward and difficult to illustrate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Not even if it turns out to be an intruder ? ’ asked Pascoe . |
| 8 | Hence , Freeman is refuted since presumably other explanations are conceivable , even if it turns out they are n't very interesting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ; |
| 13 | Unlike billiards , however , rather than a clean ‘ hit or miss ’ , the repulsion of the two positively charged nuclei causes a curvature in the ion 's path even if it passes to the side of the atom . |
| 14 | Even if it failed , the attempted takeover was remarkably well planned and executed . |
| 15 | In my ignorance of electricity I would have believed her , even if it sounded unusual . |
| 16 | Yeah but even if it says virgin it can still |
| 17 | Therefore , we should be very wary indeed of ( e ) and ( f ) types of statements unless we are sure that there is something really negative that has to be exposed and which , even if it hurts people in the process , is nevertheless necessary . |
| 18 | Even if it meets these conditions , it will not be entitled to the concessions unless , at no time during the year , has it , or any member of the group of which it is a member , been a public company , a banking or insurance company or an authorised person under the Financial Services Acts and , if it is a parent company , unless the group qualifies as a small or medium-sized group . |
| 19 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 20 | I hope that the succeeding chapters will go at least some way towards building flesh and sinew , face and character — even if it happens to be , as on Tafahi island , a North German face and character — on to the dry , lifeless bones of economists ' figures . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The result was most timely for the West Indies even if it left the South Africans in a state of some shock . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There were no landmarks , no features by which they could determine their position even if it had been light enough to see them . |