Example sentences of "[noun] be a [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LONG court cases are a drain on the taxpayer and must be stopped , lawyers were warned yesterday . |
| 2 | She will need time to grieve inwardly a little over these losses and gradually come to terms with them in her own way , so you should not assume that any moods of depression or irritability she has in those early months are a reflection on the efforts you are making to help her to feel ‘ at home ’ . |
| 3 | Worst of all , the heavy four-motor cars were a drain on the electrical distribution system , especially in South Shore , and sometimes a whole section would go ‘ dead ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ My quadrille footwork 's a bit on the rusty side , ’ Matthew said . |
| 5 | Partnership is a stage on the road to Dow Corning 's ultimate goal of World Class Manufacturing . |
| 6 | What institutional language reform really signals is an agreement on the part of the powerful to recognise a new way of ordering the world ( the question of how closely this conforms to reality is at best secondary ) . |
| 7 | The result is an emphasis on the subject matter of general practice as a biomedical phenomenon , concomitantly ignoring or minimizing the need for psychosocial knowledge or skills . |
| 8 | Costa del Sol is a comment on the package holiday , a couple being serenaded by Antonio . |
| 9 | ‘ Make the change ’ , and Labour is a party on the make . |
| 10 | The basis of the debtor 's defence seems to be that the action is a fraud on the other parties to the contract to forbear from suing . |
| 11 | Included in the itinerary was a stop-over on the way back in Bangkok , but unfortunately this coincided with the civil disturbances featured on our T.V. screens . |
| 12 | One result was a raid on the Rolling Stones , which , by June , had left Mick Jagger facing three months in jail , Keith Richards a year , and their- and Miles 's — acquaintance , art gallery proprietor Robert Frazer , six months in jail . |
| 13 | The immediate cause of this switch was a ban on the export of walnut from the Savoie region of France — the principal source of the wood for the English industry — by the French government in 1720 . |
| 14 | Josh was an authority on the Severn from the Bristol Channel to Gloucester . |
| 15 | We all reckon that being as the prize for lowest weight was a year on the Cambridge Diet he fished without any bait at all on the hook . |
| 16 | Her nine putts for her first-half 30 on Saturday was a record on the LPGA tour . |
| 17 | I wished that Ellen and Rickie would go to their beds , for the soft mutter of their voices was an intrusion on the dark and star-studded infinity through which I steered Wavebreaker . |
| 18 | A further consequence of a rather haphazard system of acquiring information for the recommendation of schools was a suspicion on the part of some headteachers that the invitation to participate was based on personal contacts and the preferences and prejudices of , for example , the local inspector . |
| 19 | In reaction to the many comments to the effect that shanty towns are full of poverty , misery and crime , he pointed out that these settlements were an improvement on the city centre slums . |
| 20 | The sub-text , or hidden message , of Moore 's attack on the poverty lobby is an attack on the poor themselves , part of the move to a harsher , conservative approach to social policy . |
| 21 | Where the finder is a trespasser on the land . |
| 22 | Consider as an example cases where a person ( but only exceptionally an institution ) is said to be an authority on a certain matter , as in ‘ John is an authority on Chinese cooking ’ or ‘ Ruth is an authority on the stock exchange ’ . |
| 23 | Much of that work was a strain on the eyes , peering through magnifying glasses and into microscopes . |
| 24 | T.S.Eliot for example wrote a series of poems about the disillusionment of modern life , these poems are a comment on the repition of day to day life in the city . |
| 25 | Erm , maybe since the rams are a problem on the island , maybe you could get the horses over here , to work part of the year , and then foal , er , then you 'll an agreement to have some of the foals back . |
| 26 | They can establish , at least , that the author is an authority on the subject — though this does not of course necessarily guarantee the quality of the end product . |
| 27 | Hence an expenditure tax is a tax on the difference between net income ( gross income minus the costs of securing that income ) and the change in net worth ( net change in the value of liabilities minus the net change in the value of assets ) . |
| 28 | The Education Secretary John Patten says the school 's record is a blot on the local educational landscape . |
| 29 | If the picture is a window on the world , its surface is the outer surface of the voyeur 's eye . |
| 30 | Daniel Donovan was a passenger on the Forfarshire . |