Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A big , glossy hardback with lavish colour pictures , it is handsome enough but now that so many general cookbooks include first-class vegetarian recipes it seems an expensive extra . |
| 2 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 3 | Firstly , if the argument is that any of the suggested markets — be they for products , corporate control or managerial talent — at present actually operates to constrain corporate managers , this is not something which is empirically demonstrated , and given the present nature of these markets it seems an implausible claim . |
| 4 | In some organizations it is still seen as the junior partner to sales , in others it has an equal status , in yet others it has a superior status . |
| 5 | While most people look forward to summer — for others it means an uncomfortable round of runny noses , sweaty itches and nasty rashes — some brought on by allergies . |
| 6 | The magnitude of erosion is reflected in the silt content of the Huanghe River : before it enters the Loess lands it has an average silt content of 2 kg m-3 of water , but when it leaves the region after its confluence with the Weihe the average silt content is 35 kg m- which can rise to several hundreds of kilograms after storms ( Smil 1984 ) . |