Example sentences of "even when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even when it breaks down there are all sorts of reasons why a couple could benefit by continuing to cooperate , and treating their divorce , too , as nonzero sum . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This thing of subtracting , we carry on doing it even when it goes negative . |
| 4 | The curious nature of the first-person plural relationship in the Sonnets [ + ego , + tu ] is that it is so infrequent ( twelve times only ) and that even when it occurs it is tenuous , fragile , or , as here , stands for a union in falseness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even when it speaks of stripping it still adds . |
| 8 | I was , quite sure ; even when it began to arrive , dish after khaki-coloured dish , covering the whole surface of the table , I was not daunted . |
| 9 | Even when it does get to them , they seem fairly insecticide-tolerant . |
| 10 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 11 | It means being open to new information even when it does not seem immediately relevant . |
| 12 | Repeated official and unofficial enquiries have suggested that the foreign exporting sector buys very little that is of Irish manufacture , and even when it does buy locally it tends to buy low value-added goods , like packaging materials and industrial consumables . |
| 13 | The United States was unable to restrain Israel even when it felt it was necessary to do so against Syria in June 1967 and against Lebanon in 1982 . |
| 14 | And even when it became clearer — in a purely physical sense — as far as understanding it went she was as far from clarity as ever . |
| 15 | But even at his most confused , the essence of Maurice was still there , and we loved him for it even when it drove us spare . |
| 16 | He was always on the watch for an affront , which he would often imagine even when it had not been intended , an easy thing for a Frenchman at a politically sensitive time . |
| 17 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |
| 18 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |
| 19 | When I was at London-evacuated-to-Cambridge I went everywhere by sit-up-and-beg-bike ( no gears ) , even when it meant cycling in ruts in the snow left by cars ( tricky ) . |
| 20 | In this same category , but with an even more urgent insistence , he placed the irreversibility of monastic commitment , even when it fell short of a formal vow . |
| 21 | Not until the second half did Saints show any of their best style and even when it came it was never sustained . |
| 22 | It 's refreshing , even when it gets way into the twenties ! ’ |
| 23 | It may seem obvious to you that coffee cups belong in the top cupboard , but if people get into the habit of leaving them in the sink and you allow them to do that ( even when it irritates you ) it will be difficult to get them to change . |
| 24 | ‘ She seems to find it impossible to get involved in anybody 's emotional problems — not even when it comes to saving her own family . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Even when it rains there is still plenty to see . |
| 28 | There 's loads to see , even when it rains |
| 29 | Even when it 's switched off ? |
| 30 | 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 . |