Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both legal literature and the documentary evidence attest the use of what can be called trust clauses , as well as the practice of using for a single disposition the wording of both legacy and trust . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | as if the problems of font matching within a single typesetter vendor 's equipment were n't potentially bad enough we now face the problem of a whole host of methods for getting the fonts displayed on the screen of the desktop publishing system . |
| 4 | Prompted no doubt by Danchet 's keeping to a single mood in each episode , Campra 's large-scale tonal contrasts are sharpest in Hébé . |
| 5 | Flapped Formed like a rolled consonant but consisting of a single tap only , eg flapped /r/ . |
| 6 | Interestingly , the department consisting of a single planner has his only service , Textline , on his desk . |
| 7 | On the basis of these standards , SCOTVEC is creating a new series of awards in training and assessing , each consisting of a single unit . |
| 8 | In Scotland , there are 580,000 homes consisting of a single adult over 16 . |
| 9 | At the moment , a SuperSparc comes stand-alone or in a system-ready Mbus module consisting of a single Viking on a standard Mbus plug-in board or with a Multi-cache Module Controller and 1Mb of expansion cache memory which can operate in the Xbus mode for large-scale multiprocessing . |
| 10 | The deuterium nucleus , ‘ deuteron ’ , contains a proton and a neutron ; the heavier form of hydrogen called tritium has a nucleus ( ‘ triton ‘ ) consisting of a single proton and two neutrons . |
| 11 | In N. emarginata this character behaves as though it is controlled by genes ( or by a block of very tightly linked genes ) acting through a single locus . |
| 12 | It is rather like looking for a single straw in a haystack . |
| 13 | In some groups this wholly muscular form does not occur : the filarioids and spiruroids have a muscular-glandular oesophagus which is muscular anteriorly , the posterior part being glandular ; the trichuroid oesophagus has a capillary form , passing through a single column of cells , the whole being known as stichosome . |
| 14 | Stations at Darlington , Newton Aycliffe , Fishburn and Chester-le-Street were also operating with a single vehicle and at the time of the call all were out . |
| 15 | So that we will then be operating with a single agency covering both projects . |
| 16 | The needles shuttered in and out faster , glinting in a single bar of sunlight . |
| 17 | Opportunities for Nigerians living within a single region to receive alternative views on their own sets are therefore limited . |
| 18 | Yet even in a country so vast and diverse as the ex-Empire , there were some features that affected most parts , and set up their own horizontal influences at all lower levels of society irrespective of any vertical political pressures acting from a single centre . |
| 19 | Total , or , elsewhere , global , history assumes a spatio-temporal continuity between all phenomena , and a certain homogeneity between them insofar as they all express the same form of historicity — Althusser 's essential section — whereas in general history the problem is precisely to determine the relation between different series : whereas a total history draws everything together according to a single principle , a general history analyses the space of dispersion and heterogeneous temporalities . |
| 20 | Here Rousseau himself demonstrates in his oscillating interpretations a history that can not be linear , nor operate according to a single temporality , disturbing instead , the time of the line or the line of time ’ : |
| 21 | To this end , the material will be reorganised according to a single system and an index and guide will be created . |
| 22 | But by comparing the bodies of two adult animals that are known to differ according to a single gene , they can see what effects that single gene has . |
| 23 | In the departmental model as I 've already said and often we will typically be looking at a single sweep of requirements a single business function . |
| 24 | I think it 's looking at a single event out of context . |
| 25 | In her new show ( to be premièred at the Arnolfini in Bristol on 25 October and reaching the Riverside Studios in London on 30 October ) , Lea Anderson will be moving towards a clearer narrative — looking at a single event from two very different points of view , the first to a delicate musical collage , the second to a brash brass quartet . |
| 26 | it 's going in a single lane |
| 27 | The standard rose is really a bush rose growing on a single stem . |
| 28 | In the five interesting events the detectors of UAI show a track in the central detector leading to a single cell in the electromagnetic calorimeter , which picks up a lot of energy . |
| 29 | Only in the case of engagements lasting for a single day or less , and involving people with whom the organisation does not expect to have further contact in the near future , might payment be made without any deductions . |
| 30 | A DEC spokesman explained Jenkins ' appointment by saying that , although the company will continue to support such non-standards as SCO Unix , it is striving for a single Unix thread built around OSF/1 . |