Example sentences of "even when it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Guarded by a collective representation in which theft and violence reside in a dangerous class , morally elevated by its correctional quest , the state achieves the legitimacy of its pacific intention and the acceptance of legality — even when it goes to war and massively perpetuates activities it has allegedly banned from the world .
2 Even when it speaks of stripping it still adds .
3 ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’
4 Reductivist theory ( at least in its utilitarian form ) has always found it difficult to encompass the notion of rights , even when it comes to providing entirely innocent people with a right not to be punished .
5 A are n't we supposed to believe this European union is won , that it 's all unanimous on the rest of it , there does n't seem to be much evidence of that , even when it comes to where the M E Ps should actually sit .
6 Even when it stopped on the 5th ’ , the historian John Buchan was to write , ‘ there followed days of sombre skies and wet mists and mucky clouds .
7 First , the financial year has just ended and not all the figures are available , Secondly , the department appears to have trouble digging out the relevant information even when it applies to previous years .
8 But , first , they have to understand why such an instruction is given , even when it appears to be against their interests , and secondly they have to have been involved in the decision and to understand and accept the consequences of such a strategic direction .
9 And even when it appears to be so , the level of sales is in itself a quite complex measure .
10 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 .
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