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

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1 Dalgliesh had a respect for Morgan as a man and a detective but was grateful that either duty , tact or a mixture of both had taken him away .
2 Most of it was helpful and extremely kind . ’
3 LIKE the Royal Academy of Arts , Denis Serjeant , its Surveyor , was brilliant and mildly maverick .
4 This was unexpected as previously ozone losses had tended to follow a two-year cycle , with shallower holes evident in even-numbered years .
5 The judge had to ensure that the trial was fair and thus evidence should only be excluded if necessary to ensure that fairness , that is if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect .
6 It was nationalist and virulently anticommunist .
7 In order to get the best results from the new seeds , technology in the form of machinery , chemical products and fertilisers , was necessary and therefore capital was required to purchase these .
8 But he added that the county 's tourism and leisure industries would grow in importance because the local economic base was wider than simply manufacturing .
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