Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quantities for most of the meals on the following pages are given for a single portion . |
| 2 | When the module is entered into LIFESPAN , the files in the FOREIGN-SET are held with the module header file and are treated as a single module . |
| 3 | However , " inter-connected bodies corporate " are treated as a single person . |
| 4 | FOREIGN this points to between 1 and 30 other files which , with the module header , are treated as a single entity within LIFESPAN , but when read out are expanded into the original file set . |
| 5 | These vertices are joined by a single edge labelled with the number of paths between the vertices . |
| 6 | Then the two sets are joined by a single line , swivel to swivel . |
| 7 | The only difference between this demo and the full commercial version is that you are limited to a single theatre of operations . |
| 8 | However , the limitations of these data must be borne in mind , especially the fact that they are limited to a single point in time . |
| 9 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 10 | When an inductor and capacitor are arranged in a single arm , the bridge is best regarded as a resonance or tuned-arm bridge . |
| 11 | By international agreement , all pieces of a given shower are catalogued as a single meteorite and named after a nearby geographical feature ( it can be a town , a post office or prominent natural feature ) . |
| 12 | The disk is round , covered with plates which on the dorsal side of the disk are surrounded by a single row of rounded granules . |
| 13 | The rotor elements are fabricated as a single unit ( " rotor " ) , which is supported at each end of the machine by bearings and includes a projecting shaft for the connection of external loads , as shown in Fig.1.3(a) . |
| 14 | Amounts over this are taxed at a single rate of 40 per cent . |
| 15 | In the CAPM the returns on an individual security are related to a single index , the performance of the market portfolio . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | FROM desk-top micros to the largest mainframes , conventional computers are built around a single processor and a single store of memory . |
| 18 | The figures are costed for a single person . |
| 19 | It 's also a doddle to lay ; Ethernet uses a linear bus , which means that network stations are connected to a single cable a bit like electric sockets hanging off a mains cable . |
| 20 | In older systems , downpipes may lead into hoppers ( or rainwater heads ) which are connected to a single downpipe discharging via a shoe over a gully . |
| 21 | That is , all productive units are merged into a single firm without any change in their numbers or their costs of production , and further that this newly created firm acts solely as a costless decision-making and co-ordinating mechanism for the activities of what were formerly the independent units . |
| 22 | Once the outlines for the pages have been set up using a system of ‘ style sheets ’ text and graphics are merged in a single operation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Of course very few machines are used for a single application and in practice you need to balance the requirements of each application that you want to run . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The gene order is hsdR , M , S , the hsdR gene has its own promoter and the hsdM and hsdS genes are transcribed from a single promoter situated between genes hsdR and hsdM [ 7 ] . |
| 27 | Charles Liesching , when District Judge at Negombo , wrote that ‘ the distance to which cattle are transported in a single night by relays of men , is almost incredible . ’ |
| 28 | Some of the youngsters are engulfed in a single bite . |
| 29 | Women are transformed into a single constituency and denied their choice of allegiances . |
| 30 | Category by category , more than a third of Soviet goods measured by value ( from sewing machines and locomotive cranes to coking equipment ) are produced in a single factory . |