Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by a single [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These vertices are joined by a single edge labelled with the number of paths between the vertices . |
| 2 | Then the two sets are joined by a single line , swivel to swivel . |
| 3 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are two pickups , a Jackson J5ON in the neck position and a J92C in the bridge ; they 're controlled by a single volume pot and three-way toggle switch . |
| 7 | But in species where less than a third of broods are founded by a single wasp , parasites reduced the reproductive success of their hosts by up to 16 per cent . |
| 8 | In the DCS200 , the film has been replaced by a single CCD ( Charged Coupled Device ) chip . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Coram have announced that they will support the entire French Admiral 's Cup team , the first time that all three boats in a team will have been sponsored by a single company . |
| 10 | With limited exceptions , it proposed that all functions of local government be undertaken by a single authority in each area . |
| 11 | The new system is to be sustained by a single super-power which , even if officially bankrupt , can still call on the financial resources of its wealthy clients and allies to support its global security activities . |
| 12 | There is no right to " cross-appeal " where the original appeal is against an interim care or supervision order made under s38. ( c ) Powers on appeal The appeal will be heard by a single judge , unless the President of the Family Division directs otherwise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The first result is that complementary assets should be owned by a single firm . |
| 18 | The offence would be committed by a single act of distribution , and the recipient may be a single person . |
| 19 | As defined , affray is no longer an offence of group disorder at all — it may be committed by a single individual attacking another . |
| 20 | Cayley took a set of equations such as unc and enclosed each side in brackets , so that two equal columns could be connected by a single equality sign . |
| 21 | Hans Tietmayer , then Deputy President Elect of the Bundesbank , put it this way as early as June 1991 : ‘ A single currency requires a single bank which must be matched by a single government and a single state . ’ |
| 22 | It is very common to find that the combination of the adverbal adjective and its preceding verb can be matched by a single verb , without any change at all in the overall syntactic pattern or in the meaning : 14 ( a ) you should make the string longer you should lengthen the string ( b ) his sister wanted to set the owl free his sister wanted to release the owl or his sister wanted to free the owl ( c ) Liz had knocked her fiancè unconscious Liz had stunned her fiancè ( The same remark can be made of what are plainly close relatives of this construction , namely separable verbs where the second part is an adverb , or " particle " , as with put up ( = accommodate ) , or pull off ( = achieve . ) |
| 23 | In future the travelling hospital will be staffed by a single sister . |
| 24 | Even using secondary sources alone , the amount of information involved is usually too great to be encompassed by a single person , and so of necessity such studies are often undertaken as a team project . |
| 25 | The Management Information Base semantics have been clarified so that MIB I and MIB II extensions , which typically reside at different locations in the MIB tree , can be given private parameters and object associations , allowing them to be recognised by a single Management Information Base browser . |
| 26 | These are long-winded phrases and can often be replaced by a single word or left out without loss of meaning . |
| 27 | The 1980 Green Paper , The Taxation of Husband and Wife , had as a central proposal the scrapping of the married man 's allowance to be replaced by a single person 's allowance each for husband and wife . |
| 28 | This report stemmed from the recommendation of the Schools Council in the early 1970s that the dual examination systems of GCE and CSE should be replaced by a single system at 16 plus . |
| 29 | For instance , one of the signs that extremely and fast are united in a grammatical construction is the fact that the sequence extremely fast can be replaced by a single element , say , old , which has the same relationship to cars as does extremely fast ; furthermore , this substitution causes no grammatical change in the rest of the sentence . |
| 30 | Under the new proposals , worldwide income apportionment will be replaced by a single rule that will apply to all foreign life companies with UK branches . |