Example sentences of "even when their [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Just as drugs were often used , even when their properties were poorly understood , to investigate physiological processes which they evidently modified , so X-rays were found to be a valuable tool in certain fields of study .
2 Even when their offences are of the ultimate gravity , some people are getting off far too lightly .
3 Moore et al showed that a history of otitis media in children was associated with abnormalities of binaural processing of sounds even when their thresholds for pure tones were normal .
4 Recent research has shown that well-informed mothers who have been able to take responsibility for decisions in pregnancy and labour feel happier after the event , even when their plans did n't work out as they had expected them to .
5 The ‘ socialization ’ in school and in the Nazi youth movement — eleven-year-olds were told on their induction in the Jungvolk that ‘ from today onwards your life belongs to the Führer ’ — kept alive the heroic image of the Führer in many young Germans even when their parents were becoming increasingly critical of Hitler .
6 The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise .
7 The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years .
8 Even when their children go to school , single mothers are more likely to go on living on welfare benefits than other lone parents .
9 Inter-generational rows are often about power : parents trying to retain their control even when their children are grown .
10 Many mothers continue to work part-time even when their children start school , so they can be there when they come home in the afternoon and so holiday childcare arrangements are a little easier .
11 As he had always succeeded in getting his own way , the workers had been inclined to go along with him , even when their instincts told them that he was wrong .
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