Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not obvious a priori whether all or any pair of these projects converge on a single set of structures . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In Scotland , there are 580,000 homes consisting of a single adult over 16 . |
| 5 | By now the tendency for manufacturers to concentrate on a single site was apparent , and many of the smaller mills , such as Inchbrook , fell into disuse . |
| 6 | The scheme is an impressive realisation of the idea of combining uses within units contained in a single building — in this case , living space and craft/design studios . |
| 7 | In addition to being consistent over time , it is clearly desirable that indicators used within a single year be consistent . |
| 8 | Thus all the senses of mouth discussed earlier will represent lexical units belonging to a single lexeme . |
| 9 | George also holds the record for the number of goals scored in a single season from the flank with a fabulous 22 goals in 1927–28 . |
| 10 | This option enables you to view the identifiers and titles for a set of up to 20 Clients associated with a single Product . |
| 11 | That is , children at this age seem to make two further assumptions : ( i ) all labels belong to a single level , and ( ii ) they do not overlap . |
| 12 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 13 | Forcing pluralistic , many-faced groups to march behind a single banner may protect the self-proclaimed leaders , but it 's likely to endanger the community as a whole , as well as compounding the difficulties of its most vulnerable members . |
| 14 | And as it is quite feasible for a single transaction to have a different currency for each stage of the business cycle — order , invoice , payment , and bank transactions posted to a single account , whether a general ledger account , customer account , or supplier account , should ideally be possible in any currency . |
| 15 | By June the total capital of companies floated in a single week reached £224 million , and South Sea stock , floated at 110 , had reached an astonishing peak of 1,050 , spearheading a speculative mania of spurious company flotation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It marks a new focus for the university 's research efforts , which previously have concentrated on relatively rare disorders caused by a single gene defects , such as cystic fibrosis . |
| 18 | In the former , each character was cast on demand and the composed page was built up either from lines of individual characters ( Monotype 's method ) or from complete lines cast as a single element ( Linotype 's approach ) . |
| 19 | Note that this is less than the D4 wounds inflicted by a single shot due to the reduced effectiveness of a multiple shot . |
| 20 | Of course , his lordship and his colleagues were concerned to brief each other as accurately as possible on each one of the expected participants ; but overwhelmingly , their concerns centred on a single figure — that of M. Dupont , the French gentleman — and on his likely sympathies and antipathies . |
| 21 | The intuitive judgement of the validity of the proportionality is much harder to make when two senses associated with a single word form are directly contrasted , as in horse : stallion : : dog 1 : dog 2 . |
| 22 | Consequently , available prolonged oesophageal manometric recordings can not differentiate between deglutitive and non-deglutitive motor activity and they are unable to distinguish multiple pressure peaks induced by a single deglutition from a pressure complex induced by repetitive swallowing , or to separate dry swallows from wet or solid swallows . |
| 23 | the accounts give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Corporation at March 30 , 1991 and , in respect of the Corporation and their subsidiary undertakings regarded as a single entity , of the state of affairs at March 30 , 1991 , and the results and statement of cash flows for the year then ended , and have been properly prepared in accordance with the direction of the Secretary of State for Energy … , and |
| 24 | Sometimes Feeny will rise and sway , humming , with her arms above her head waving , remembering carnival 's forbidden dancing , sashaying down the streets of Jamieston in the wake of the bands weaving like a single creature on a hundred legs , through the alleys and in and out of the back yards . |
| 25 | In this context he distinguishes the ‘ division of labour in manufacture ’ ( i.e. the detailed division of tasks between workers employed by a single capitalist ) from the ‘ social division of labour ’ ( i.e. the division of social production as a whole into various distinct ‘ branches ’ ) . |
| 26 | B. S. Johnson 's House Mother Normal ( 1971 ) uses the contents of eight minds at , or close to , this point , and one ‘ normal ’ perspective , to express a multi-faceted range of interpretative possibilities created by a single event in an old people 's home . |
| 27 | Widely differing accents and a range of grammatical forms from near-basilectal Creole to British Standard can be heard from different individuals participating in a single conversation . |
| 28 | These general classifications , of course with some cases of overlap , take us some way in the analysis of groups based on a single art or on two or three related arts . |
| 29 | In essence , any restrictions on financial institutions benefiting from a single licence will be permitted only where : |
| 30 | Jonathan did another couple of touchings and the large men with the large guns merged into a single figure . |