Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that there were first-class scientists at work in other countries but they were either greatly taken with large unprovable notions or were limited to a single field , whereas Galileo was original in dynamics , hydrostatics , mechanics ( strength of materials ) , optics and astronomy . |
| 2 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 3 | Only families whose own interests were limited to a single area of ducal or comital influence could afford to ignore the other lord . |
| 4 | First , the ‘ aggregation ’ principle meant that on marriage the husband and wife were treated as a single tax unit , with any income earned by the wife being added to that of the husband for tax purposes . |
| 5 | At one hospital alone almost 300 children were treated in a single marathon session entitled ‘ Light Relief ’ . |
| 6 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
| 7 | In order to impose some consistency on the data , and to make bibliographic searching by author easier , the Rolfe listings were rearranged into a single file in alphabetical order of thesis author . |
| 8 | Craft villages were very different in character from their predecessors of a century or two before , and the new settlements which were dominated by a single workplace and where even the houses and public buildings were owned by the ironmaster , millowner or colliery company had no antecedents in an earlier age . |
| 9 | Some hamlets were dominated by a single manufacturer whose influence was as great as that of a squire in an estate village , but most villages had several warehouses belonging to small manufacturers . |
| 10 | Church and empire were fused in a single entity ; the empire was an image of the heavenly kingdom , its boundaries the limits of Christendom , the emperor the representative of divine authority in the world . |
| 11 | Only in a few instances were brass or copper depositum plates provided , for it was more usual to outline the initials , date of death and age of the occupant on to the lid with black-headed upholstery nails with the possible addition of a skull and crossbones outlined at the head of the lid , whilst the sides were decorated with a single row of close-set nails all round . |
| 12 | New Statesman and New Society were merged into a single publication 18 months ago . |
| 13 | Most common cavity episodes had a single transient UOS relaxation , but up to five were seen during a single episode . |
| 14 | Data were collected from a single crystal on beam line X-31 at the EMBL outstation at Hamburg using the image plate scanner and were processed using MOSFLM ( Imperial College , London ) and the CCP4 program suite ( Daresbury , UK ) . |
| 15 | The after legs of the bow pulpit were secured by a single bolt each — we hope that this will be remedied . |
| 16 | The bosses were made from a single billet of soft iron ( Härke and Salter 1984 ) and fixed to the face of the shield by means of 4 to 5 rivets whose flat round heads are occasionally tinned . |
| 17 | The cubes were made from a single piece of metal . |
| 18 | All radiographs were interpreted by a single radiologist ( JK ) , who did not have access to the clinical data . |
| 19 | All commands , or menu selections ( there is no clear distinction between command and selection ) were performed by a single keystroke . |
| 20 | In 1979 the twin VAT ( value added tax ) rates of 8% and 12.5% were replaced with a single rate of 15% . |
| 21 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 22 | Gastric biopsy specimens were assessed by a single histologist ( Dr M F Dixon ) according to the Sydney classification system . |
| 23 | Therefore , these 25 subcloned cDNAs were derived from a single transcript . |
| 24 | Some books were set by a single compositor , but |
| 25 | Two-year-olds generally cots and , though we had asked for one in advance , we were provided with a single bed which we had to surround with cushions to make it safe . |
| 26 | This would present no great difficulty if one were dealing with a single cell but real lumber contains many thousands and it is necessary to diffuse the water from the inner cells through the walls of most of the other cells which lie between them and the outer world . |
| 27 | Or , conversely , is there positive clumping of particular cone types , as might be expected if local patches of cones were descended from a single precursor cell ? |
| 28 | In 1985 , 45 per cent of primary level schools , mainly in rural areas , were run by a single teacher ( teaching all grades ) . |
| 29 | The company explains this by saying that a co-operative-server database hides the complexity of a computer network by enabling applications to access data located on multiple computers as if all the data were stored on a single computer , thus simplifying application building and — it is hoped — improving decisions by making access to information easier . |
| 30 | Recently , three ferox weighing over 20lb were taken in a single day . |