Example sentences of "[verb] at a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Alliance is seriously handicapped by the electoral system and it can not afford any further drain of support caused by separate policies : it is imperative that policy shall be decided at a single gathering . |
| 2 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 3 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 4 | The light is then collected at a single detector and classified electrically . |
| 5 | They allow desktop objects to be collected at a single point and emulate a paper notebook , displaying pages on the screen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think it 's looking at a single event out of context . |
| 8 | In her new show ( to be premièred at the Arnolfini in Bristol on 25 October and reaching the Riverside Studios in London on 30 October ) , Lea Anderson will be moving towards a clearer narrative — looking at a single event from two very different points of view , the first to a delicate musical collage , the second to a brash brass quartet . |
| 9 | In some instances , thousands of users will be connected at a single site . |
| 10 | A + mistake may be made at a single point or a length of DNA may become temporarily dislocated and be reinserted in the wrong place . |
| 11 | The picture , measured by the statistics , has not changed significantly since the Budget a month ago , but consumers who had braced themselves for the biggest cut in living standards ever imposed at a single stroke suddenly find themselves spared . |
| 12 | As the blades only meet at a single point when cutting , they retain their sharpness for a lifetime of use . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , the Malla Park near Kilpisjärvi is famous for its flora , and walkers can reach the three-countries stone , where the three Arctic Scandinavian countries meet at a single spot . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And an all too familiar aspect of British weather was recreated at a single stroke . |
| 16 | It is odd — one of the anomalies of science — that it is possible to look at a single entity as if it were either one thing or another , apparently quite different thing . |
| 17 | We put this to you as an answer to all slimmers who say they only need to look at a single cake or bar of chocolate to put on a substantial amount of fat . |
| 18 | The legislation had been approved at a single sitting of the NLA on April 15 . |
| 19 | Both Thurmaston and Countesthorpe had become industrial villages in the sense that the majority of the population were employed at a single craft . |
| 20 | This process can be traced back until we arrive at a single cell which was formed at the moment of conception by the fusion of two parental germ cells , i.e. one egg and one sperm cell . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah ! j'adore ça ’ , he said and never looked at a single picture . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But , given an interest in attitude change , a survey taken at a single point in time is not very useful , for no matter how carefully chosen , one sample will fail to capture changes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Or the whole unit can be checked at a single tour , with a limit of 2,000 stock codes on the Psion . |
| 28 | If the agouti finds one , it is likely to find far more than it can eat at a single sitting . |
| 29 | The evolution of such a plant could not have been achieved at a single stroke . |
| 30 | Four groups of five nude mice were grafted with MKN45G xenograft tissue and treated with either PBS or histamine at a single concentration of 1 mgkg - 1 day - 1 , locally at the tumour site . |