Example sentences of "was [adj] [coord] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise .
2 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 .
3 The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come .
4 It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth .
5 He was eighteen but still a lad , awkward , like his arms and legs were longer than he could cope with .
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