Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [coord] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost . |
| 2 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |
| 3 | The Speech Institute group was similar and perhaps a rival to the band directed by Miss Elsie Fogarty , who had done the choruses in Murder in the Cathedral , and I believe that one of them had asked me what were the chances of taking part in its successor . |
| 4 | The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 5 | It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth . |
| 6 | He was eighteen but still a lad , awkward , like his arms and legs were longer than he could cope with . |