Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is therefore interesting to discover that something as basic as fashion in furniture has been altered by a single cold winter . |
| 3 | In the DCS200 , the film has been replaced by a single CCD ( Charged Coupled Device ) chip . |
| 4 | As Robert points out this is the first time that this function has been run as a single corporate entity . |
| 5 | These use an advanced version of the Pulse D/A converter which has been produced on a single IC ‘ chip ’ ( type CXD-2562 ) . |
| 6 | Calculations using this minimum sedimentation rate , and taking an average lamina thickness of 100 micrometres , suggests at least annual deposition of mats , although more than one mat layer may have been deposited from a single mat forming event ( concentrations of up to 4.4m -3 have been reported for Rhizosolenia mats ) . |
| 7 | The evolution of such a plant could not have been achieved at a single stroke . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Coram have announced that they will support the entire French Admiral 's Cup team , the first time that all three boats in a team will have been sponsored by a single company . |
| 9 | The body and the upper stand seem to have been made in a single casting . |
| 10 | And in the even more classic ground of the Italian Apennines , where Kuenen and Migliorini first recognised the turbidity current , single graded beds up to 20 metres thick within the Macigno Sandstone are said to have been deposited by a single " whoosh " of turbid water . |
| 11 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 12 | Their trial had been completed in a single morning session before a military tribunal inside Insein Prison , an overcrowded place notorious for torture . |
| 13 | The sofa , pinned to the wall , had been killed with a single shot . |
| 14 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was as though the unwanted debris from a dozen mansions had been dumped in a single , overcrowded space . |
| 17 | It certainly did not mean that the two movements had been fused into a single whole . |
| 18 | The legislation had been approved at a single sitting of the NLA on April 15 . |
| 19 | Moreover , as most of these tests have been conducted on a single national market , they impose an arbitrary segmentation on the model in which the effects of even other equity markets are arbitrarily ignored . |
| 20 | English Estates was given increased funds for extending its workshop programme , and a simpler government grant system was introduced : the three existing grants have been replaced by a single ‘ city grant ’ with simpler application procedures . |
| 21 | At Kew , a large greenhouse , with temperature and humidity controlled at tropical rainforest levels throughout the year , contains a collection of several hundred clones of cocoa ( clones being groups of genetically identical individuals that have been derived from a single parent by asexual reproduction ) . |
| 22 | The previous two sections have been devoted to a single idea . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Mm detailed plans have been approved for a single storey dwelling in the garden on one of the houses condition on the surgery reverting to living accommodation , the houses would have considerable scope for use as offices subject to planning or paramedical use especially where large car parking areas are required , the whole is available at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds , but offers may be considered for number twenty five with the garden and parking area building plots to the agent |
| 25 | Four seasonally collected samples have been combined into a single sample for purposes of analysis . |