Example sentences of "at a single [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found the spot where the three reeds were growing and at a single blow cut down all three with his sword . |
| 2 | ‘ If you kill a wall gecko at a single blow , a hundred merits will be credited to your account . |
| 3 | The Black Death began the long process of decline for many , but it rarely wiped out an entire village at a single blow . |
| 4 | The complex bid to offer pricing system British investors are expected to understand should be replaced by a system where unit trusts or ‘ mutual funds ’ deal at a single price with any charges clearly added , it is argued . |
| 5 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 6 | A variety of white leaf marks is found in natural populations and these are represented by multiple alleles at a single locus . |
| 7 | A homogeneous population will eventually grow at a steady rate r , which is given by the Euler-Lotka equation , In an asexual population , or a population of sexually reproducing haploids that vary only at a single locus , the outcome of natural selection depends simply on the long-term growth rates associated with each genotype , in the absence of density- or frequency-dependent interactions , each genotype will eventually grow exponentially at a rate that depends on its own life history , given by equation ( 1 ) . |
| 8 | In N emarginata , banding appears to be controlled by two alleles at a single locus ( Palmer , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | In addition , since it is probable that alcohol produces liver damage by a number of different mechanisms , any explanation for a genetic predisposition to cirrhosis is likely to involve several genes , rather than variation at a single locus . |
| 10 | Harriet had picked up one and tilting back her head , drained it at a single gulp . |
| 11 | In RFS a parallel beam of light at a single frequency ( or energy ) from a tunable laser is directed at the atoms . |
| 12 | In the structures shown , the three equivalent protons of the α-methyl group absorb radiation at a single frequency , but this frequency will be different for each of the three kinds of triad , because the environment of the α-methyl groups in each is different . |
| 13 | Or the whole unit can be checked at a single tour , with a limit of 2,000 stock codes on the Psion . |
| 14 | Teams from the whole of Europe concentrate their work at a single lab in southern England where a huge torus of magnets containing gas at 100 million degrees tries to reproduce the Sun 's power . |
| 15 | The average pressure from several holes is observed , as the pressure at a single hole would be more sensitive to misalignment of the tube than the ps-reading . |
| 16 | Anglian DTI spokeswoman , Sarah Squire , said money taken from the EICS would be used to fund the new One Stop Shop scheme , where Training and Enterprise Councils set up consultancy services at a single location . |
| 17 | Performance information can be viewed in real time or collected and archived at a single location to be used later for systems and capacity planning . |
| 18 | The reproducibility of blood flow measurements performed in this way was assessed in separate patients by performing successive recordings at a single location . |
| 19 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 20 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 21 | By contrast , there are 2 basic operations at the lowest level ; so if instead all the basic operations were applied directly , at a single level , the first of them would only gain credit during the 2 th successful search . |
| 22 | The Figure omits the clones and probes spanning the rDNA region , because the majority of these clones also hybridise to over half of of the other YAC probes , and so it is not possible to place these clones and probes at a single position on the map . |
| 23 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 24 | A ‘ full auto ’ button , for instance , is very useful because it gives auto-exposure/auto focus/auto white balance at a single press . |
| 25 | They had sat opposite each other in a compartment crowded with Able Seamen , he watching the darkening fields flying outside the window and Bunny staring down at a single sheet of notepaper , pale blue in colour , which he held on his jigging knee and from whose fold poked a sprig of crab apple in bloom . |
| 26 | Another major demand on woodland which is rarely discussed is the fuel requirement for cremating bodies , especially in eastern England where many thousands of cremations may be represented at a single cemetery . |
| 27 | In the departmental model as I 've already said and often we will typically be looking at a single sweep of requirements a single business function . |
| 28 | Hughes looked in depth at a single thesis , to assess the extent to which the information content of the thesis was eventually published in the literature . |
| 29 | It was while in the Forth that he started an excursion run between Boness & Leith at a single fare of 7/6d. ( 35½p ) . |
| 30 | It is best known from the presbytery garden at Chatillon-en-Diois in the French Alps , but has also been found in a single block in Poland , as a single specimen in Czechoslovakia , at a single locality in California and at not more than two or three other places in the world . |