Example sentences of "[conj] it be an [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think basically what I 'd like to say today is that I personally agree with what Ida 's saying that it is an attack on the Health Service , and it is the greatest achievement that the Labour Party has done in history in my opinion . |
| 2 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 3 | The current crisis places a new agenda before trade unionists and community groups , and it is an agenda on which many of the items are common to both . |
| 4 | But it was an allowance on top of wages . |
| 5 | But it was an authority on earth , and the idea of Peter as some doorkeeper of heaven should be resisted . |
| 6 | But it was an improvement on William 's taste in art and they served a good pint of bitter , and Preston might almost have settled back to enjoy it if he 'd been able to forget their reason for being there and if Emily had n't kept on at him about William and the Black Death . |
| 7 | Every one of those links , whether it is an effect on the chemistry inside a cell , a later effect on how brain cells wire themselves together , an even later effect on behaviour , or a final effect on lake size , is correctly regarded as caused by a change in the DNA . |
| 8 | One stickleback will put another to flight when it is an owner attacking an intruder , but will itself flee from the same individual when it is an intruder on the other 's territory . |