Example sentences of "[be] [adv] an [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hospices are clearly an improvement on hospital wards . |
| 2 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as the very name reveals , there is still an emphasis on appearance rather than on logical form . |
| 4 | War is pre-eminently an outrage on motherhood and all that motherhood means ; the destruction of life and the breaking-up of homes is the undoing of women 's work as life-givers and home-makers . |
| 5 | An alternative symbolic formulation would be unc where D = d/dt and the square matrix is now an operator on x . |
| 6 | Horne 's qualifications for this post were his own skills as bookbinder , architect , and designer ; he was also an authority on furniture and antique musical instruments , as well as a connoisseur of music-hall . |