Example sentences of "find it [be] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A very dark bird nearby makes me put up the 'scope again and I am surprised to find it is a common scoter , not at all common in Whalfirth Voe .
2 Dougal tried to disguise his disappointment : to have come so far , only to find it was a blind alley .
3 He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed .
4 But she found it was a different school with different faces .
5 Naw , if I find 't is a good day , I resalve to take a turn in the Park , and see the fine women ; so huddle on my clothes , and get dressed by one .
6 ‘ If you stand in a real landscape and pick out with your eyes a path ahead , then walk the path and find it was a good route to have chosen , why , that is nothing mystical .
7 You 'll find it 's a terrible bore ’ — he began a systematic investigation of the de Chavigny empire : the jewellery company , its workshops and showrooms in Europe and America ; the estates and vineyards in the Loire and in Algeria ; the stockholdings ; the capital assets ; the property the Baron had retained in France and abroad .
8 You might find it 's a little bit strange me stood up here talking to you about temporary labour , part-time workers , when you 've heard what Asda 's gone through and said temporary labour situations all morning .
9 It 's a little bit bigger I think you 'll find if you put the tape measure on it you 'll find it 's a little bit bigger .
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