Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quantities for most of the meals on the following pages are given for a single portion . |
| 2 | When the module is entered into LIFESPAN , the files in the FOREIGN-SET are held with the module header file and are treated as a single module . |
| 3 | However , " inter-connected bodies corporate " are treated as a single person . |
| 4 | FOREIGN this points to between 1 and 30 other files which , with the module header , are treated as a single entity within LIFESPAN , but when read out are expanded into the original file set . |
| 5 | These vertices are joined by a single edge labelled with the number of paths between the vertices . |
| 6 | Then the two sets are joined by a single line , swivel to swivel . |
| 7 | The only difference between this demo and the full commercial version is that you are limited to a single theatre of operations . |
| 8 | However , the limitations of these data must be borne in mind , especially the fact that they are limited to a single point in time . |
| 9 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 10 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 11 | When an inductor and capacitor are arranged in a single arm , the bridge is best regarded as a resonance or tuned-arm bridge . |
| 12 | By international agreement , all pieces of a given shower are catalogued as a single meteorite and named after a nearby geographical feature ( it can be a town , a post office or prominent natural feature ) . |
| 13 | Their trial had been completed in a single morning session before a military tribunal inside Insein Prison , an overcrowded place notorious for torture . |
| 14 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 15 | It certainly did not mean that the two movements had been fused into a single whole . |
| 16 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 17 | This presents logistic problems , as the relevant immunohistochemical studies must be done on frozen sections , but positive results have been reported in a single case of latent coeliac disease detected during family studies in Finland . |
| 18 | The rotor elements are fabricated as a single unit ( " rotor " ) , which is supported at each end of the machine by bearings and includes a projecting shaft for the connection of external loads , as shown in Fig.1.3(a) . |
| 19 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 20 | In the CAPM the returns on an individual security are related to a single index , the performance of the market portfolio . |
| 21 | Most utilities are written by a single person , arrive on one floppy are often found on the disks that adorn the front of computer magazines ( such as our very own Mega Disk ) . |
| 22 | FROM desk-top micros to the largest mainframes , conventional computers are built around a single processor and a single store of memory . |
| 23 | The body and the upper stand seem to have been made in a single casting . |
| 24 | The figures are costed for a single person . |
| 25 | Gail Spiro 41 , and children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , had been shot by a single bullet to the head as they slept . |
| 26 | It 's also a doddle to lay ; Ethernet uses a linear bus , which means that network stations are connected to a single cable a bit like electric sockets hanging off a mains cable . |
| 27 | In older systems , downpipes may lead into hoppers ( or rainwater heads ) which are connected to a single downpipe discharging via a shoe over a gully . |
| 28 | That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units . |
| 29 | Once the outlines for the pages have been set up using a system of ‘ style sheets ’ text and graphics are merged in a single operation . |
| 30 | There are two pickups , a Jackson J5ON in the neck position and a J92C in the bridge ; they 're controlled by a single volume pot and three-way toggle switch . |