Example sentences of "[verb] by a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its walls are banked head-high with electronic equipment , dominated by a single computer screen . |
| 2 | Craft villages were very different in character from their predecessors of a century or two before , and the new settlements which were dominated by a single workplace and where even the houses and public buildings were owned by the ironmaster , millowner or colliery company had no antecedents in an earlier age . |
| 3 | Formerly the Newspaper Proprietors Association , it now became the Newspaper Publishers Association , marking a shift from member groups dominated by a single proprietor to corporations managed on more orthodox commercial lines and with a wide range of finance . |
| 4 | Some hamlets were dominated by a single manufacturer whose influence was as great as that of a squire in an estate village , but most villages had several warehouses belonging to small manufacturers . |
| 5 | But for a business used to being dominated by a single entity — the BBC — the past few years have been unsettling . |
| 6 | The former was dominated by a single mode of utterance , as in the traditional literary genres , the lyric , epic , and tragedy . |
| 7 | To be sure , there is evident in the modern world a trend toward collectivism , but this can assume , and has assumed , very diverse forms : among them the fascist corporate state ; the Stalinist autocracy and the highly regulated society , dominated by a single party , which succeeded it ; the ‘ mixed economy ’ of the capitalist welfare states , in which some important sectors of the economy are publicly owned , a vast network of publicly financed and administered social services exists , and the national economy is regulated and partly planned by the state , which now employs a substantial and increasing proportion of the active population ; and the former Yugoslav system of self-management in an economy which was largely publicly owned . |
| 8 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 9 | Alpha-1 antitrypsin is the major serum protease inhibitor , the glycoprotein is encoded by a single locus on chromosome 14 and is principally produced by hepatocytes . |
| 10 | Similarly , Southern analysis suggests that AD1 is encoded by a single gene ( Fig. 6b ) . |
| 11 | These results together confirm the presence of the AD1 sequence in the genome and indicate that this type III repeat is encoded by a single gene . |
| 12 | Mr Wilkinson , whose bill has a good chance of reaching the statute book , believes such a measure is necessary to curb growing surburban problem of overdevelopment through luxury blocks of flats being built by developers on plots previously occupied by a single house . |
| 13 | First , the company is often owned by a single individual or a group of connected individuals who are advised by the same adviser . |
| 14 | Under the 1982 rule change member firms could not be owned by a single non-member and could not therefore become part of wider groupings — a fact which meant that the London exchange had , in some senses , closed its doors to the rest of the international community . |
| 15 | The first result is that complementary assets should be owned by a single firm . |
| 16 | The Lords of Trade did not like colonies owned by a single proprietor . |
| 17 | The offence would be committed by a single act of distribution , and the recipient may be a single person . |
| 18 | As defined , affray is no longer an offence of group disorder at all — it may be committed by a single individual attacking another . |
| 19 | Between two of these villages , off the beaten track , lay an old farmhouse , part-ruined by fire , but with one wing still furnished and habitable , in a shallow valley and approached by a single track . |
| 20 | But the wavelength multiplied by the frequency is always equal to the velocity of light , so this decrease in wavelength has the result at the same time of increasing the frequency v. Inevitably we thereby increase the energy carried by a single photon and make its interaction with the electron correspondingly more rumbustious ( with the effect of increasing the degree of uncontrollable disturbance to its momentum ) . |
| 21 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 22 | As the research in intelligent knowledge-based systems has progressed steadily over the past decade , it has become increasingly clear that there are classes of complex problems which can not be solved by a single system in isolation ; they require several systems to work together interactively in a co- operative framework . |
| 23 | The judge must decide whether , taking into account the issues involved and the nature of the evidence required for each issue , the disputes between the litigants can best be resolved by a single trial or by a trial in two parts . |
| 24 | The Director of Public Prosecutions brings this application for judicial review of these decisions of the single justice on Friday , 16 February ; the first , declining to deal with the issue of the alleged breach of bail condition by Mr. Bell on the ground that that issue could not be resolved by a single justice of the peace but required a court consisting of at least two justices , and the second , to adjourn the hearing of the alleged breach of condition to a court sitting on Monday , 19 February , and to remand Mr. Bell in custody in the intervening period . |
| 25 | These North-east derbies have a habit of being decided by a single goal . |
| 26 | PROGRAM — A smaller piece of software , like a game , often written by a single person . |
| 27 | Most utilities are written by a single person , arrive on one floppy are often found on the disks that adorn the front of computer magazines ( such as our very own Mega Disk ) . |
| 28 | E is more straightforward : Bodleian MS Laud 636 ends in 1154 , but was written by a single hand to 1131 , in Peterborough , as local material indicates . |
| 29 | Gail Spiro 41 , and children Sara , 16 , Adam , 14 , and Deana , 11 , had been shot by a single bullet to the head as they slept . |
| 30 | The courtyard is illuminated by a single light and against the far wall five drummers keep a constant rhythm , breaking into occasional chanting . |