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

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1 Most of it was helpful and extremely kind . ’
2 LIKE the Royal Academy of Arts , Denis Serjeant , its Surveyor , was brilliant and mildly maverick .
3 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 .
4 It was nationalist and virulently anticommunist .
5 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 .
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