Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] and [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently my grandfather died — it was sudden and such a shock after my grandmother 's death . |
| 2 | I know the house was only erm we used to have to run down to offices there to pay the rent once a month and it was twelve and six a month for the house and that 's about what it was worth too in them days . |
| 3 | For while Tughluk Delhi was first and foremost a barracks-town , it was not entirely without culture or civilization . |
| 4 | One of the striking things about Havel is his commitment to drama over the past quarter-century and his insistence , in the period immediately before the Czech revolution , that he was first and foremost a writer . |
| 5 | But whatever the extent of anti-British feeling , the impatience was first and foremost a sign that the final peace showed no immediate signs of becoming reality . |
| 6 | The political significance the radicals assumed from the 1890s was first and foremost a measure of the close correspondence between their programmes and mass aspirations . |
| 7 | The farmer 's wife was first and foremost a mother and her children had first call on her time . |
| 8 | The little tailor , as I have told you , was first and foremost a craftsman , and he stared in wonder at this beautiful model and could not begin to imagine what fine tools or instruments had carved and wrought it . |
| 9 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |