Example sentences of "from a single [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Kew , a large greenhouse , with temperature and humidity controlled at tropical rainforest levels throughout the year , contains a collection of several hundred clones of cocoa ( clones being groups of genetically identical individuals that have been derived from a single parent by asexual reproduction ) . |
| 2 | Often it is the mother from a single parent family , ’ says Oliver . |
| 3 | reproduction from a single parent , with mutation |
| 4 | Yet all but one of Costa Rica 's 38 presidents , since it became independent in the 1840s , shared descent from a single conquistador , Cristobal de Alfaro ; he was also a progenitor of seven presidents of next-door Nicaragua , two of El Salvador , and one each of Guatemala and of Honduras . |
| 5 | Bob says he thinks Senada was initially wary about accepting hospitality from a single man . |
| 6 | The rhetorical theorist would not dissent from a single word , but would feel impelled to add a further remark . |
| 7 | In essence , any restrictions on financial institutions benefiting from a single licence will be permitted only where : |
| 8 | This is an astonishing output from a single individual if detailed concentrated effort was put into all of them . |
| 9 | The design team may have many forms from a single individual working alone to a broadly based curriculum development team with specialists in curriculum design , graphics , programming and observation ; however , for our purpose it is useful to emphasize three roles — the curriculum designer who has overall responsibility for the program teaching unit and its associated written or audio-visual material , the program designer who realizes the computer program and the teacher developers in whose classrooms the material is tried and tuned . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All cells in a daughter plant are descended from a single spore cell , so all cells in a given plant are closer cousins ( or whatever ) of one another than of any cell in another plant . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some idea of the potential gains from a single currency can be had by looking at previous historical periods when people really believed that exchange rates were fixed . |
| 14 | Britain will use its presidency to get other EC heads to agree to exempting Denmark from a single currency and a European ‘ army ’ , he told Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen . |
| 15 | As the way is now open , with the agreement of the House , for us to join a single currency in just over five years , will my right hon. Friend spell out clearly to the House and to the people of this country what benefits will or may derive to them from a single currency ? |
| 16 | System may operate continuously and from a single engine . |
| 17 | The seventh century sees the appearance of leadership by birth , perhaps resulting from a series of successful leaders from a single descent group . |
| 18 | Bar service enabled various different rooms , or cabins within rooms , to be served from a central point ; many late-Victorian pubs had a sequence of separate private bars serve from a single bar-counter , in total contrast to the current fashion for single-room pubs . |
| 19 | In their advertising these firms represented their service as one that would relieve the anxiety of owing so much to others — borrowing from a single Peter to pay pressing Pauls ? |
| 20 | Some people feel it as no more irritating than the sting of a nettle , and have survived multiple stings ; others , who are allergic to the venom , may experience unpleasant effects or worse from a single sting . |
| 21 | Metaphorically speaking , the research front is a frozen moment in time ; a snapshot of the state of a growing , changing , organic entity at a precise instant , seen from a single viewpoint . |
| 22 | A post-mortem examination disclosed she had died from a single knife wound , which had severed the artery . |
| 23 | A baby does n't have to mean a girl 's been whoring — it can come from a single night . |
| 24 | ( It is not surprising that workshops with large numbers of staff from a single school are much more ticklish in this respect , though the long-term gains can also be more dramatic . ) |
| 25 | A number of other graves containing coins have been added to the list since Åberg was writing in 1926 ( Rigold 1975 , pp. 69–70 ; Avent 1975 , p. 6 ; Rigold and Metcalf 1977 ) as well as the one case of coins from a single building at Mucking ( Rigold 1977 ) . |
| 26 | Sinks are available as single or double units press-formed from a single sheet of steel . |
| 27 | The regulation would not apply if two-thirds of each company 's EC turnover was derived from a single member country , in which case the merger would be subject to national authority . |
| 28 | The Labour party fears that somewhere there might be a single person who is also a millionaire who could benefit from a single person 's discount , so it is absolutely against the proposal . |
| 29 | Obviously it would be better for both parties if all the sponsorship we need comes from a single organisation . |
| 30 | Obviously it would be better for both parties if all the sponsorship we need comes from a single organisation . |