Example sentences of "be [not/n't] a [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may , perhaps , have thought that I put my point of view too emphatically to you on a matter on which you hold strong views , whereas I am not a partisan on the question of the death penalty . |
| 2 | After all , such bills are personal to the seller , and they are not a charge on the property . |
| 3 | He added , incautiously , ‘ There is hardly any aspect of policy today in which trade union leaders are not a brake on the wheel ’ . |
| 4 | The chairman of the Bar Council , Mr. Tony Scrivener — I hope that the remarks of Conservative Members from a sedentary position are not an attack on the Bar Council , which I think all of us would regard as an important and esteemed body . |
| 5 | It was seen to be not an excrescence on the body politic , having no bearing upon its general health , but an organic disease … a running sore that affected the entire fabric of society , a morass exhaling a miasma that poisoned the healthy elements of industry . |
| 6 | Testers ' comments : Patricia : ‘ This is well-designed and stylish , has a handy pocket at the front , and the adjustable , padded nylon straps give added support so are n't a strain on the back . |
| 7 | ‘ The German Gestapo were n't a patch on the Russians in terms of efficiency . |
| 8 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 9 | However , as this is not a treatise on the Venetian tradition , we will leave the subject here , with no more than a reminder of its possibilities . |
| 10 | The sharp , salty or insipid taste of shop-bought taramasalata is not a patch on the real thing . |
| 11 | When we say that the response of the Community so far has been ineffectual , that is not a comment on the team spirit and competence of that monitoring force . |
| 12 | If that is not a tax on the sick , will the Prime Minister tell us what it is ? |
| 13 | It is not an obligation on the taxpayer , because the promoter wants to build a harbour , bridge or whatever it might be that requires parliamentary procedures . |
| 14 | So review is not an appeal on the merits of a decision but limited to those grounds . |
| 15 | And we looked through the side windows and there 's not a thing on the ruddy counters , it 's cleared out . |
| 16 | There 's not a blemish on the fairways . ’ |
| 17 | He added : ‘ That 's not an attack on the government . ’ |
| 18 | Whilst you can spend many a happy hour with a regular 12-string guitar plucking one string while turning the wrong key , since they all look identical , this is n't a problem on the Hamer . |
| 19 | ( There is n't a clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 20 | ( There is n't a clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 21 | They do a different kind of work , they 've traditionally done considerably responsible work within Oxford City 's Environmental Health Department , so there is n't a suggestion on the part of any of us that they are somehow lesser beings , because that is not the case at all . |
| 22 | Thomas Cole was not a diarist on the scale or with the range of one of the French painters , surely respected even by him , Eugène Delacroix . |
| 23 | Last night a spokesman for the SO players said they were unhappy with the proposals , although their ballot was not a reflection on the SO management , in whom they still had complete faith . |
| 24 | ‘ It was not an attack on the manager in any case . |
| 25 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 26 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 27 | I mean we we have more than done what was supposed to be to start with to see that it was n't a drain on the parish . |
| 28 | It was n't a peck on the cheek , it was a rough , deep kiss . |
| 29 | He had to admit it — it was all very well hunting and growing things , but what you got was n't a patch on the food you found around humans . |