Example sentences of "[adj] even when [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum always tells me I 'm the most beautiful woman in the world ; she told me this even when I had chickenpox ! ’ |
| 2 | Stay assertive even when you do n't feel like it and especially when dealing with a submissive or aggressive person . |
| 3 | And it is their response to each other 's movements and their own enjoyment in dance that makes their behaviour appear natural and spontaneous even when they perform difficult technical feats . |
| 4 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in a group of neurotic patients , a placebo was effective even when they knew the pills they were taking were inert . |
| 6 | Wallace was great even when he took a knock early in the 2nd half ( Strandli should have been on sooner ) . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , happiness is difficult to find , and it seems man is unable to remain happy even when he finds a way of living that seems to suit his psychic constitution — a combination of biological givens , and the consequences of the individual 's resolution of his conflicts during his personal development . |
| 8 | Anorexics have a false idea of their own appearance , seeing themselves as fat even when they have become painfully thin . |
| 9 | Shuffled from one power group to another during the regencies of his childhood , he was not safe even when he became a fully fledged king . |
| 10 | Regarding behaviour , participants were asked to indicate from always ( five points ) to never ( one point ) the frequency of instances occurring where , for example , they got drunk even when they did not intend to ; their drinking left them short of cash ; they drank to help themselves deal with a crisis ; and they missed meals because they wanted to drink instead . |
| 11 | People cease to be rational even when they 've known and worked with someone for the last ten years . ’ |
| 12 | The upshot is that incumbent governments tend to remain incumbent even when they have not got things arranged as conveniently as they would like . |
| 13 | Many feel that so called rebel tours such as the one lead by Mike Gatting in 1982 did more harm than good.Cricketers were accused of sacrificing sport and principles chasing sizeable pay cheques and on their return were unrepentant even when they got three year bans from international cricket . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , the results are not always convincing : lyric poetry , for example is labelled as non-fictional even when it includes references to non-existing objects ( such as blue deer in Georg Trakl 's poems ) , while narrative and nonsense poetry are assigned to the fictional domain . |
| 15 | The influence remains dominant even when it becomes clear that the ill-health of many people has often more to do with the context of their lives and factors such as poverty , lack of access to land and food security , sanitation and employment . |
| 16 | It is recognisable even when it appears in feminist dress , as it does , for example , in these remarks of Hester Eisenstein ( 1984 ) : ‘ I argue that feminist theory has moved from an emphasis on the elimination of gender difference to a celebration of that difference as a source of moral values . |
| 17 | Further , firms ' employment policies may be discriminatory even when they appear not to be . |
| 18 | This is true even when you eat Royal Thai food . |