Example sentences of "even when " in BNC.
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| 1 | However even when frontiers are closed fast to Amnesty , information still gets out — via refugees or victims who have fled in fear , ‘ friendly ’ foreigners or nationals inside the country , church , trade union and human rights organizations , journalists or travellers , or from letters smuggled across the border . |
| 2 | ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’ |
| 3 | Even when I went to prison it was n't explained to me . |
| 4 | Suicide tends now to command sympathy , even when the reasons for it are hard to understand . |
| 5 | They 're born , they grow old , and they die like us ; and when they 're old , they can turn foolish , and even when they 're young , they can deceive you , and they 're actually capable of telling lies , pretending to be what they are n't : to be sick when they 're healthy , and healthy when they 're sick . ’ |
| 6 | The theatre is ‘ larger than life ’ , not in terms of physical scale , but because movements and speech are comparatively emphatic and intense , even when a play simulates everyday natural surroundings . |
| 7 | Even when non-Anglican protestants had become accepted as citizens in England and Ireland towards the end of the eighteenth century as they already were in Scotland and Wales , English and Irish catholics remained politically suspect . |
| 8 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 9 | I have learned to keep going , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , even when the voices scream at me to stop , to lie down , to turn to something else . |
| 10 | Even when it speaks of stripping it still adds . |
| 11 | Low gravity beers are called ‘ light ’ — even when they are black or walnut brown in colour — medium gravity beers are called ‘ heavy ’ and strong beers are known as ‘ export ’ , recalling the heyday of Scottish brewing when companies such as Younger sold their beers extensively to North America , India and Australasia . |
| 12 | Just then one of Father 's secretaries , who was standing right behind me , said , ‘ Such purity of line , do you notice , even when she 's only showing that sweet child how to curtsy . ’ |
| 13 | What is remarkable is the extent to which she was able nonetheless to express intelligent analysis and genuine commitment even when working through apparently tame generic materials for Rank . |
| 14 | All too often the pilot has a plan in his mind and sticks to it even when it should have become obvious that the situation has changed and his plan is no longer feasible . |
| 15 | Of course , you will need to go on taking basic fire safety precautions even when smoke alarms are fitted in your home . |
| 16 | This fear of open debate continues even when the publication is by a retired officer and when control is less easy for the chief officer to enforce : |
| 17 | In consequence , even when the insider retires and ostensibly leaves the family , he will be expected to maintain his silence , and although bland hagiographic biography has been acceptable in the past , there has been no place for the espionage of critical ethnography . |
| 18 | I have many examples in my fieldnotes which show this mode of thought to be so ingrained , that even when the possibility of making such a journey ‘ back ’ to basic police work has long since evaporated , the supremacy of the belief still remains : |
| 19 | Some were embarrassingly naive about the rules of engagement and readily admitted their drug use even when we had little or no evidence to prove the point ; a most ‘ un-prig ’ like quality ! |
| 20 | there is no doubt that from the perspective of incumbents in positions of command or maintenance in structure , communitas — even when it becomes normative — represents a real danger , and indeed for all those , including even political leaders who spend much of their lives in structural role playing , it represents a temptation . |
| 21 | Never letting go of that feeling , even when the flash-fire gut-lurch of In Love seemed distant , ludicrous , incredible . |
| 22 | She 'd never let go of him , either , even when their affair was over , and he was tramping the globe looking for Nirvana . |
| 23 | Not only must the contestants behave , but their team-mates are also obliged to conduct themselves properly , even when not fighting . |
| 24 | Scoring head kicks , in particular , are likely to merit a full point , even when they are slightly deficient in skill , range , power , control , etc . |
| 25 | Houses burnt — gardens and orchards uprooted — herds and flocks driven off wholesale — sparing nobody , even when there was no proof to likelihood that the family was harbouring a wanted man … |
| 26 | Even when in lectures , which was not often , his mind was elsewhere . |
| 27 | Leonard 's mind was such that he always had several ironies in his fire at any one time , even when he was seeking to demythologise some of them ! |
| 28 | Even when all sign of life had gone I kept on feeling itchy . |
| 29 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 30 | Even when used properly , the bit has to be reversed to release the nose screw ; mot all machines have this facility . |