Example sentences of "even when its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To return to the case of the labour aristocracy , even when its position is out of line with its structural determination , ‘ this structural determination … is necessarily reflected in working-class practices ( ‘ class instinct ’ as Lenin used to say ) — practices that can always be discerned beneath its bourgeois ‘ discourse ’ , etc ’ . |
| 2 | For example , since boys are well adapted to tasks which require strenuous physical activity , there is a danger , if this behaviour is overgeneralized , that they are encouraged to develop the appearance of strength even when its exercise is not needed . |
| 3 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 4 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
| 5 | It produces wine of great finesse and penetrating perfume which can dominate an entire cuvée even when its presence might only be a small proportion of the whole . |
| 6 | The international aspect continued to be of importance and was one of the reasons why the Nationalist — a very costly venture — was kept going even when its existence could no longer be justified on any other grounds . |
| 7 | They maintain that ‘ The favoured enjoy effective power , even when its members take no active steps to exercise power . |
| 8 | It is not difficult to understand this assumption , even when its projection elsewhere may be unjustified or oversimplistic . |
| 9 | She had been nineteen like me , and youth , as I knew , even when its possessor is unattractive , has an appeal of its own . |
| 10 | This dry contempt strolls out even when its target is invisible : the narrator telephones the Fonsteins ' house years after they have lost contact and is answered by a young man , on whom he forms an immediate image — ‘ a thick head of hair , a beer paunch , a T-shirt with a logo or slogan . |
| 11 | But even when its use had been approved , it did n't work as it should . |