Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1	For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost .
2	Her movements as she set the inverted cups upright on their saucers and manipulated milk jug , teapot and hot water jug were precise and just a little fussy .
3	The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity .
4	Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise .
5	By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways .
6	The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore .
7	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 .
8	The performance of the EEC during the Uruguay round of GATT discussions was instructive and probably a foretaste of what is to come .
9	Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps .
10	It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth .
11	The competition was fierce and only a few could obtain the valuable passports , visas and tickets to leave the confines of China .
12	When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it .

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