Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hall seems to endorse a proposal made some years ago by that , on the basis of this simple genetic control , ‘ Torsion , and with it the class Gastropoda , arose through a single gene mutation . ’ |
| 2 | Many agree however that to maintain that the Report argued for a single worker appropriate to all situations is false , and would endorse Hey in her suggestion that generalist , even general purpose , may be the more appropriate term for the individual the Committee envisaged . |
| 3 | Mr Lang had lunch with senior Highland Region councillors , who afterwards argued for a single Highland authority based on the region to replace the current system . |
| 4 | A ragged and halting procession made its way down the street , and the voices of the crowd rose into a single roar . |
| 5 | If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter . |
| 6 | Both patterns of behaviour occurred inside a single company , and within five miles of each other . |
| 7 | Palazzo Grassi is holding its first exhibition devoted to a single artist , Leonardo da Vinci , ‘ Leonardo and Venice ’ ( until 5 July ) . |
| 8 | In order to form an estimate of both the range and the limitations of the record of landholding we can not do better than commence by examining the section devoted to a single parish , Empingham in Rutland . |
| 9 | It is noteworthy that the Committee received only one complaint about political balance , and that referred to a single item in one news programme . |
| 10 | Because he concentrated on a single target while the Russians played their world-wide game , they sometimes failed to notice where he was pulling their fingers . |
| 11 | We paddled under a single track embankment linking North Uist with Benbecula , exchanging waves with the friendly local driving overhead . |
| 12 | In 1935–36 Albert came within a single goal of achieving something no Palace player has yet managed — topping the Football League list of goalscorers — for he hit 38 goals and only W.G. Richardson of West Bromwich got 39 . |
| 13 | And an achene is a small , single-seeded fruit that does not open , which you might mistake for a nut unless you know that it came from a single carpel . ) |
| 14 | We know that all the lapis lazuli used in the ancient Middle East came from a single source in the Badakshan Valley , Afghanistan , but this source does not contain wollastonite . |
| 15 | All ancient lapis came from a single source in Badakshan in Afghanistan . |
| 16 | Each section was examined through a microscope and scored by a single observer ( without knowledge of tissue type or site of origin ) from zero to four depending on the number of cells reacting . |
| 17 | The weekly amount is £54.15 , which is the same pension as that received by a single person . |
| 18 | For example , in 1981 31 per cent of households in the Federal Republic of Germany and 29 per cent in Denmark consisted of a single person ( CSO 1989 ) . |
| 19 | The walls of the buildings most commonly consisted of a single row of vertical timber planks or baulks with wattle panels inserted into grooves down their edges . |
| 20 | One type of context consisted of a single word and the other of a sentence . |
| 21 | The rest of the message consisted of a single word : ‘ Dinner ? ’ |
| 22 | The new apartment consisted of a single room the size of a small warehouse : wholewood desk and table , low-slung black leather chairs , filing cabinets , the playpen of the bed . |
| 23 | The caracol , one of the old ones , consisted of a single room underground . |
| 24 | Until the mid 20th century , Paull village consisted of a single riverside street ( Main Street ) connected to a back lane by Town End Road . |
| 25 | He replied with a single word — ‘ hope ’ . |
| 26 | Nouvelle cuisine methods of preparing thallium … a drop of thallium on a piece of seaweed , chilled thallium , served garnished with a single radicchio leaf … down home thallium … thallium and beans … big , tasty , hearty , man-sized thallium burgers served with french fries , pickle and thallium on the side … |
| 27 | The probe for EP1242L RNA hybridized to a single band of 4.18 kb in late RNA ( Fig. 2 ) ; a band of the same size could also be seen in cytosine arabinoside RNA after overexposition of the film ( not shown ) , indicating a low level of expression of ORF EP1242L in the absence of DNA replication . |
| 28 | It differed in only two respects , that the turntable was a much narrower arrangement than the Wolverton one , and that when in the uncoupled position , it rested on a single support carried on two small wheels . |
| 29 | I remind myself that this entire industry began with a single act of rebellion against the management Upstairs . |
| 30 | A large mug of tea vanished in a single gulp , then the man and woman moved out of sight towards the outer door in the kitchen 's lower corner . |