Example sentences of "[conj] even when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most nuns come from the Tibetan countryside and may join the nunnery in their early teens or even when they are as young as nine or 10 . |
| 2 | When we take a Bach Flower or homoeopathic remedy , or even when we smell the fragrance of a beautiful flower , the healing effect is triggered at a subtle level , in the auric body ( explained below ) and filters ‘ inwards ’ as it were , to the physical body . |
| 3 | The ability to empathise , to connect with our own and each other 's inner strength , is a necessary part of giving healing massage or even when offering a shoulder to cry on . |
| 4 | If she had told him then , or even when the man had reappeared in her life at Helmsley she would now be on firmer ground . |
| 5 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 6 | And , if we are looking at regression as a form of therapy — as , indeed we should be — the benefit can surely only come when you re-experience the previous existence for yourself ( or even when you imagine that you do ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I do it when I 'm sitting down , walking about the athletes ’ village or even when I 'm eating a meal . ’ |
| 8 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |
| 9 | His notion of what ( or even when ) the middle ages were remains extremely vague ; his conviction that the values they embodied could provide an answer to the Condition of England question was correspondingly intense . |
| 10 | As a small child , sick with temper when she was forced to do something against her will or even when she was strapped too tightly into a bed , she had risen to heights of defiance that genuinely alarmed her family . |
| 11 | By contrast , addictive disease is seen particularly when the alcoholic binge occurs unintentionally or even when there was every intention of avoiding it . |
| 12 | ‘ Or even when he was not there . |
| 13 | And the Journal 's not exactly a reliable record of what happened to him — or even when it happened . |
| 14 | And I notice as well er more so at night when I 'm watching T VCV or even when I , I go to bed |
| 15 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |
| 16 | It is easy to do with halls of residence , but it is also easy to do where students are living in digs or even when they are the owners of properties . |
| 17 | There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’ |
| 18 | But when your younger it , or even when you 're young , you know , it does . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | He believes that even when farmed , wild boar must be genetically pure and reared in conditions which approximate the wild as closely as possible . |
| 21 | In 1928 he returned to the ‘ Stones of London ’ , emphasizing that even when approaching a church building ( here Westminster Abbey ) as a historical monument of major symbolic value and aesthetic interest , the fact could not be ignored that , poets ' corner or no , ‘ the Abbey was not originally designed primarily as a Pantheon , but as a Church ; and a Church it remains until it is ‘ disaffected ’ . |
| 22 | High purpose was something that could be recognized in someone , like a gleam in the eye or a tone of voice ; it meant that even when that person dabbled in something doubtful , they undoubtedly had good reason for doing so . |
| 23 | I notice that even when you are simply listening to music on tape or watching it on the TV monitor when you are editing you are still breathing with the music even though you are not conducting it . |
| 24 | The cadres had not escaped from the precept that even when confronted with error , ignorance , stupidity , a person should treat elders and guests with respect and politeness . |
| 25 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
| 26 | An implication of the last point is that even when the initial exposure to the stimulus has been prolonged or has involved repeated presentations , it should be possible to detect some loss of the latent inhibition effect over time , provided the interval before the start of conditioning is long enough . |
| 27 | But often , so drab is he that even when he barges into the pub waving a bottle of paraquat and shouting I dun n it , people just do n't want to know . |
| 28 | One consequence of this fact is that even when Canada cuts its imports to nothing which , in net terms occurred in 1983 — there is nevertheless a large national deficit on the oil account because heavier oils are exported while higher value lighter oils are imported . |
| 29 | It was one of Chapman 's rules that even when the ball was on the other side of the field , a player must always be anticipating the next move . |
| 30 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |