Example sentences of "[verb] from a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He considered that all the world 's religions had originated from a single source and were the ‘ imaginations formed when such men were ignorant of their own nature , were devoid of experience , and were governed by their random conjectures which … were far from the truth ’ . |
| 2 | Thus , in the PRO one finds the records transferred from a single institution grouped together under a discrete letter code , and the record series , or ‘ classes ’ , within these clusters described in terms of main institution , branch and paper series . |
| 3 | S Chani from Hayes with a photograph of autumn shades of liquidambar leaves collected from a single tree . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | If a shower ( other than the instantaneous type fitted to the rising main ) is connected to a tap or shower fitting fed from a single pipe leading from the cold water cistern , flushing the WC or turning on another cold water tap can starve the shower of cold water , making it uncomfortably hot . |
| 6 | The Labour party fears that somewhere there might be a single person who is also a millionaire who could benefit from a single person 's discount , so it is absolutely against the proposal . |
| 7 | Where lava erupts from a single vent a low exogenous dome may be formed from a succession of flows , but basaltic lava flows so readily that such features will only develop on nearly level surfaces . |
| 8 | Yet even in a country so vast and diverse as the ex-Empire , there were some features that affected most parts , and set up their own horizontal influences at all lower levels of society irrespective of any vertical political pressures acting from a single centre . |
| 9 | Each variety has its own different characteristics — a wine may be made from a single type or , as in the case of claret , a careful blend of two or three . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The body is made from a single piece of mahogany , which came as quite a surprise , because at a casual glance you 'd think it was ash . |
| 12 | The body is made from a single piece of mahogany with a very authentic , Gibson-like cherry finish . |
| 13 | Stainless steel blades are best as they 're hardwearing and stain-resistant but , when choosing , check that the blade is made from a single piece of steel . |
| 14 | The best are those where the head is made from a single piece of metal rather than where individual teeth are riveted into place . |
| 15 | The cubes were made from a single piece of metal . |
| 16 | Metaphorically speaking , the research front is a frozen moment in time ; a snapshot of the state of a growing , changing , organic entity at a precise instant , seen from a single viewpoint . |
| 17 | It was wrong , for instance , to treat the great apes as the ancestral form from which humankind had sprung , since the apes would have undergone changes of their own since their ancestors and ours had diverged from a single root . |
| 18 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 19 | We know that all the lapis lazuli used in the ancient Middle East came from a single source in the Badakshan Valley , Afghanistan , but this source does not contain wollastonite . |
| 20 | All ancient lapis came from a single source in Badakshan in Afghanistan . |
| 21 | Holes in the floor outside , and inside , the orphanage served as toilets , and water had to be drawn from a single well in the grounds , so first they set about unblocking the drains and opening sewers . |
| 22 | Conversely , if spatial resolution is optimized in the sense that opposing inputs are drawn from neighbouring cones , then the surround inputs can not always be drawn from a single class of cone . |
| 23 | A natural target , then : a nationwide monopoly , compelling the public to buy from a single supplier . |
| 24 | A post-mortem examination disclosed she had died from a single knife wound , which had severed the artery . |
| 25 | The gene order is hsdR , M , S , the hsdR gene has its own promoter and the hsdM and hsdS genes are transcribed from a single promoter situated between genes hsdR and hsdM [ 7 ] . |
| 26 | Now , provided unc as r increases , unc as may be checked by premultiplication by I + C. In this example unc and on use of ( 3 ) we obtain from a single multiplication unc Premultiplication of(2) by ( 4 ) yields finally unc in agreement with results given earlier . |
| 27 | Both types of report may therefore emerge from a single study . |
| 28 | It is useful , therefore , to incorporate as many cross-checks as possible into the methods adopted for a study and to be aware of the limitations of material gleaned from a single source . |
| 29 | Barrow-in-Furness , too , sprang from a single house , grew into a fishing village of about three hundred people by the 1840s , and by 1878 was a town of forty thousand . |
| 30 | This factor serves to distinguish driving cases from those of deaths resulting from a single punch , and also to bolster the argument that the penalties for the former should be higher than for the latter . |