Example sentences of "[verb] of a single [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flapped Formed like a rolled consonant but consisting of a single tap only , eg flapped /r/ . |
| 2 | Interestingly , the department consisting of a single planner has his only service , Textline , on his desk . |
| 3 | This compares with only three species in the predator assemblage , with 66 per cent consisting of a single species . |
| 4 | On the basis of these standards , SCOTVEC is creating a new series of awards in training and assessing , each consisting of a single unit . |
| 5 | In Scotland , there are 580,000 homes consisting of a single adult over 16 . |
| 6 | At the moment , a SuperSparc comes stand-alone or in a system-ready Mbus module consisting of a single Viking on a standard Mbus plug-in board or with a Multi-cache Module Controller and 1Mb of expansion cache memory which can operate in the Xbus mode for large-scale multiprocessing . |
| 7 | The deuterium nucleus , ‘ deuteron ’ , contains a proton and a neutron ; the heavier form of hydrogen called tritium has a nucleus ( ‘ triton ‘ ) consisting of a single proton and two neutrons . |
| 8 | I ca n't think of a single occasion in which this might come in handy . |
| 9 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 10 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 11 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 12 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 13 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |
| 14 | ‘ Since you ask me sir I ca n't think of a single reason — oh except … my voice is trained . ’ |
| 15 | As with mangrove forests , they do not consist of a single species that happens to have exploited a particular niche , but of a whole group of species , not necessarily related to each other , each of which is adapted to the rich pickings . |
| 16 | They have variable compositions and may consist of a single phase in which case they are called homogeneous . |
| 17 | The energy difference between the two terms is Δ , and so on this simple basis the electronic spectrum should consist of a single band whose energy gives Δ directly . |
| 18 | It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number . |
| 19 | It may consist of a single file although , particularly under Windows , this is becoming less common . |
| 20 | The active volcanic belt may consist of a single chain of volcanoes or form a broad belt up to 150 km in width . |
| 21 | The controller requires very little setting.up , as information the motor 's torque/speed characteristic can be acquired automatically he results of a single run to high speed using a known large inertial load . |
| 22 | Recall of a single fact , or the carrying out of a single act |
| 23 | For example , in 1981 31 per cent of households in the Federal Republic of Germany and 29 per cent in Denmark consisted of a single person ( CSO 1989 ) . |
| 24 | The walls of the buildings most commonly consisted of a single row of vertical timber planks or baulks with wattle panels inserted into grooves down their edges . |
| 25 | One type of context consisted of a single word and the other of a sentence . |
| 26 | The rest of the message consisted of a single word : ‘ Dinner ? ’ |
| 27 | The new apartment consisted of a single room the size of a small warehouse : wholewood desk and table , low-slung black leather chairs , filing cabinets , the playpen of the bed . |
| 28 | The caracol , one of the old ones , consisted of a single room underground . |
| 29 | Until the mid 20th century , Paull village consisted of a single riverside street ( Main Street ) connected to a back lane by Town End Road . |
| 30 | As each element may consist of one or more of the elements of the line below , it is possible for a sentence to consist of a single clause which consists of a single phrase which consists of a single word . |