Example sentences of "a [noun sg] be [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A craftsman is nothing without the exercise of his craft . |
| 2 | He commented : ‘ While one can observe that a breast is nothing but a modified sweat gland and , indeed , a secondary sexual characteristic , can it truly be heard that breasts are anything but intimately associated with sex or things sexual . ’ |
| 3 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 4 | A replicator is anything in the universe of which copies are made . |
| 5 | Of the rest , over 500 are listed as road cars , so the thought of the Cobra purely as a racer is something of a myth . |
| 6 | An example is one from the Via Appia , Rome . |