Example sentences of "[was/were] even a " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Suez fiasco in 1956 Eden considered an identical idea , and there were even a few voices suggesting something similar during the Falklands War in 1982 . |
| 2 | Lady Street was busy : there were even a few visitors about , weaving between the parked vans and lorries . |
| 3 | " If you were even a schoolmaster . |
| 4 | There was even a muttering that the echo pulses could frighten or harm fish . |
| 5 | RJR-Nabisco was consumed by Kohlberg Kravis and there was even a scheme , at one stage , to mount a $40billion plus takeover for General Motors . |
| 6 | His manner was kind but official , and I could see that for some reason Aunt Louise distrusted him and was even a little afraid of him . |
| 7 | There was even a business fantasy , probably injected in the President 's ear by Don Regan after the others had left . |
| 8 | ‘ From the standpoint of humanity , ’ he said , Iran was even a little sympathetic towards the United States . |
| 9 | There was even a Viennese tinge to your pronunciation . ’ |
| 10 | Stoughton was even a friend of Matthew Arnold , who proposed him for the Athenaeum . |
| 11 | There was even a lych gate . |
| 12 | There was even a clip from his commando days in Borneo — although the Liberal Democrats ' policy on Dyaks has hardly been at the forefront of the campaign . |
| 13 | There was even a touch of irony in the fact that the proceeds from the gala evening given at Covent Garden by the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre were to be split between the Mariinsky itself and the Royal Opera House Trust . |
| 14 | But the French crowd showed that any American cultural invasion of their nation had taken place long before Euro Disneyland was even a dream in the imagination of its creators . |
| 15 | There was even a church for the victims , dedicated to San Carlo Borromeo who had an earlier one replaced . |
| 16 | Not strange at all , of course , in economic terms , since the slacks and Pringle jumper brigade who make up the bulk of business in summer would n't take the Austin Maxi out of the car-port if there was even a remote chance of frost . |
| 17 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 18 | There was even a hint of mockery in the way he tugged deferentially at his forelock whenever he encountered him . |
| 19 | Sometimes , presumably in order to try to influence the climate , there was even a little skirmishing at the highest level , about the timing of various publications . |
| 20 | The buildings and arrangements were generally superior to those at Lyons , and special mention is made of the museum and the library — there was even a resident librarian . |
| 21 | There was even a stock of down for emergency bedding until recently . |
| 22 | There was even a fireplace set in the wall and , seated at the head of a long polished table , was the Lord Bruce . |
| 23 | There was even a story , not necessarily apocryphal , that when a message arrived to tell one of the teachers that his father had died , Clive had insisted on waiting until the lunch break before passing it on . |
| 24 | There was also no lack of opportunity to meet up with your contemporaries in and around the dale — there was even a dance hall of a kind . |
| 25 | ‘ Few thought he was even a starter |
| 26 | There was even a British-built bass called the Wyman , which became the Stinger IV when production moved to Italy . |
| 27 | The poor were helped in their distress , the children educated and taught a trade , the godless tamed ; there was even a public library where the townsfolk could turn the globes to learn their geography , or contemplate the world beyond in the pages of John Calvin . |
| 28 | There was even a belief that he was the Wandering Jew , doomed to walk the earth until Christ 's second coming . |
| 29 | There was even a journal for the activists , The Ballot Worker . |
| 30 | There was even a Christmas tree set up by the altar . |