Example sentences of "[verb] to a single [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the morrow of great victory , will they show some equanimity and , above all , not give business in this country or abroad the impression that in practice we are any less committed to a single currency than any of the Twelve or that we are any less likely to be a part of it ?
2 While it would be misleading to present the members of the Annales school as a wholly homogeneous group committed to a single methodology , they nevertheless hold in common a number of views about the study of the past .
3 In the case of an order made by a county court ( judge or registrar ) or by a registrar of the High Court , the appeal lies to a single judge of the High Court and an appeal from a decision of that judge on such appeal lies , with leave of that judge or the Court of Appeal , to the Court of Appeal ( s 375(2) and r 7.48(2) ) .
4 The actions of both the Zionists and the Argentinians were , however instigated , straightforward take-overs of already occupied territory and no amount of alleged ‘ divine ’ involvement will alter the fact that , until all mankind adheres to a single set of rules on sovereignty , territory will belong only to those strong enough to hold it .
5 Palazzo Grassi is holding its first exhibition devoted to a single artist , Leonardo da Vinci , ‘ Leonardo and Venice ’ ( until 5 July ) .
6 In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland .
7 The best sorted sediments approximate to a single size and have low σ 1 , values ( Table 3.5 ) .
8 Among other Pterygota , apterous forms are of more casual occurrence , and often confined to a single sex or species .
9 Each of these measures was confined to a single area of policy , dispute over which sometimes crossed party political lines , as with the abolition of capital punishment and the legislation to enable the prosecution of a handful of elderly men against whom there might be evidence of war crimes committed half a century earlier outside the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom courts .
10 Prompted no doubt by Danchet 's keeping to a single mood in each episode , Campra 's large-scale tonal contrasts are sharpest in Hébé .
11 It is noteworthy that the Committee received only one complaint about political balance , and that referred to a single item in one news programme .
12 So , in French , ( 45 ) is ambiguous as to whether there is one or more addressees , but ( 46 ) can only be addressed to a single addressee : Vous parlez francais ? ( 46 ) Vous etes le professeur ?
13 The boolean functions which can be applied to a single bit position can then be extended to what are called logical operations on the whole word .
14 Another way in which the cat 's sound system appears much more complex than that of other species is in the degree of variation that can be applied to a single type of call .
15 In summary , the view was that exceptional items should not be transferred to a single heading of ‘ exceptional ’ , because profit before exceptional items could then become the focus of financial statement presentation and as a result operating profit would be likely to become more blurred , rather than clarified .
16 The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital .
17 In the CAPM the returns on an individual security are related to a single index , the performance of the market portfolio .
18 The record of Patrick Noel Fox ( 28 ) , of Creenagh Road , Coalisland , ran to 12 pages of which three and a half related to a single court appearance in Dungannon .
19 Sampling therefore needs to be related to a single condition such as baseflow or highflow ; different suites of elements may be mobilised at different pH conditions and carefully designed sampling programmes can take advantage of these differences .
20 These were to be based on a number of polytechnics and other further education establishments which already possessed strong departments of management and in some cases the designation related to a single establishment and in others to a grouping of two or more colleges .
21 Total , or , elsewhere , global , history assumes a spatio-temporal continuity between all phenomena , and a certain homogeneity between them insofar as they all express the same form of historicity — Althusser 's essential section — whereas in general history the problem is precisely to determine the relation between different series : whereas a total history draws everything together according to a single principle , a general history analyses the space of dispersion and heterogeneous temporalities .
22 Here Rousseau himself demonstrates in his oscillating interpretations a history that can not be linear , nor operate according to a single temporality , disturbing instead , the time of the line or the line of time ’ :
23 To this end , the material will be reorganised according to a single system and an index and guide will be created .
24 But by comparing the bodies of two adult animals that are known to differ according to a single gene , they can see what effects that single gene has .
25 The personal allowances and reliefs ( income that you are allowed to earn without being taxed ) that pertain to a single person are as follows :
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 Most routes will now be franchised to a single operator , which will bid for a monopoly on each one .
29 Thus it was a natural step that in 1875 the Probate , Divorce , and Admiralty jurisdictions should be entrusted to a single division of the High Court .
30 Only differences between classes of individuals can in principle be attributed to a single cause .
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