Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although real operational amplifiers can never provide such properties , a modern operational amplifier formed within a single chip of silicon comes impressively close to meeting the ideal specification . |
| 2 | The lock shattered with a single blow of the sledgehammer and they were in . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If carriage governed by a single contract is performed by successive road carriers , each of them shall be responsible for the performance of the whole operation … under the terms of the consignment note … . |
| 5 | A SCOTTISH soldier killed by a single shot while on foot patrol in south Armagh yesterday is thought to have been the fourth victim of an Irish Republican Army assassin . |
| 6 | When the Andy Warhol Museum opens next year , it will be the largest institution dedicated to a single artist , eclipsing , in terms of wealth and quantity of works , both the Rodin Museum in Paris , and the Henry Moore Foundation . |
| 7 | Its unusual mahogany colouring and coat pattern , with a bold white finching along the back and underside and flashing white tail , suggest close links with the extinct Glamorgan ( see Welsh cattle ) and most would accept that the two in due course merged into a single breed . |
| 8 | In other words , only certain discrete energies would be permitted , exactly as for an electron confined in a single atom . |
| 9 | Shortening lead times and the possibilities of widening the product range made on a single set of machines adds considerable complexity to the operation . |
| 10 | Within Lakatos 's framework , scientific methodology must be discussed from two points of view , one concerning the work done within a single research programme , the other concerning the comparison of the merits of competing research programmes . |
| 11 | A test based on a single product at different stages of its life-cycle does not attempt to deal with that situation . |
| 12 | While it is unwise to have a national plan based on a single feature , we could easily test the system scientifically to see if it would work on a small scale , and widen it if successful . |
| 13 | Translated into market terms , this means that the labour power capable of performing the process may be purchased more cheaply as dissociated elements than as a capacity integrated in a single worker ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 81–82 ) . |
| 14 | Additionally , as with any exhibition , you need to assess carefully the implications of having a large amount of your work restricted to a single display venue for a period of time . |
| 15 | The perfusate passed in a single cycle through the organ and was not recirculated . |
| 16 | Amongst the most famous is the impressive Rijksmuseum , home of the famous ‘ Night Watch ’ by Rembrandt and the Van Gogh Museum , the city 's only museum dedicated to a single artist . |
| 17 | We rarely if ever have in mind a circumstance described as a single event or whatever , but the possibility is not to be excluded by our definition . |
| 18 | While it would be misleading to present the members of the Annales school as a wholly homogeneous group committed to a single methodology , they nevertheless hold in common a number of views about the study of the past . |
| 19 | Each deuteron comprises a single proton bound to a single neutron , so a pair of deuterons is a total of two protons and two neutrons . |
| 20 | Its unacceptability would be shared by a great number of people , except that it is a levelling process restricted to a single aspect of human life , whereas the advantages of wealth can operate effectively and valuably in so many others . |
| 21 | PLAYING their first game for 11 days , Heybridge Swifts again found the outcome settled by a single goal . |
| 22 | a narrow strip of paper or linen pasted to a single leaf to allow sewing into a section for binding . |
| 23 | to take multiple measurements of the same patient , rather than making a treatment decision based on a single observation . |
| 24 | This molecule has two possible structures , one within the potassium atom bound to a single oxygen atom and one in which it is attached to two oxygens . |
| 25 | The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation . |
| 26 | These were to be based on a number of polytechnics and other further education establishments which already possessed strong departments of management and in some cases the designation related to a single establishment and in others to a grouping of two or more colleges . |
| 27 | There is a sense in which membership of the ERM means belonging to the worst of two worlds where there is neither the absolute assurance against speculation provided by a Single Currency , nor the prospect of stable and gradual ( and thus for the speculator uninteresting ) adjustment of a freely floating exchange rate . |
| 28 | Some of the effects of caerulein infusion have been reproduced in this study by exogenous platelet activating factor and the results indicate that platelet activating factor administered in a single dose by itself can induce pancreatitis with typical enlargement of the pancreas and inflammatory changes in the tissue as well as in the increase in plasma amylase concentration . |
| 29 | On one occasion I recall having a rabbit sealed in a single hole . |
| 30 | Thirdly , any expansion of the EC to embrace some Eastern European countries a strain would be placed upon an adjustment mechanism intended for a single country . |