Example sentences of "a single [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Seton halted further profitless talk and sent the emissaries hurrying back with a single cannon-shot above their heads .
2 The UA1 team has found five occasions on which a single electron with all the right characteristics was produced .
3 As an example , an octahedral d 7 ion with a filled t 2g ( lower ) set of d orbitals and a single electron in the doubly-degenerate e g upper set would distort in such a way that the e g levels split , such as by an elongation along the z-axis , giving a tetragonal ligand arrangement as in Fig. 6.26(c) .
4 It is rare to find a single horn in a small orchestra .
5 The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital .
6 All of the sources on the on the network look like so for instance I can do joins across two heterogeneous R D B M Ss. you can have a table with departments in , employee 's in Oracle , and salaries in D B two and I could use a single select statement and join all that information together in a single request to the Omni SQL Gateway .
7 It was n't really dealing ; it was an arrangement whereby being a single parent on supplementary benefit I was able to get a little for myself .
8 Anna was 38 at the time , a single parent with an 11-year-old daughter .
9 Ahmed is a single parent with two children under five .
10 I went home to the woman I 'm staying with , a single parent with three children aged between two and nine years .
11 ‘ I am a single parent with a little boy who will be two in September and I would love to get to know some other young mums , either by letter or in person .
12 Jane Mahmoud , of Harrogate , said : ‘ I am a single parent with two children , and I want to be able to support myself .
13 Although the flat has central heating , Mrs McNee , a single parent with two children , can rarely afford to put it on .
14 And a single parent with a child over 12 can only receive £67.15 before coming into VAT rating .
15 In a few cases , the social worker might have to make provision for young children to be given temporary care away from home , for instance if the patient is a single parent without any relatives who could care for the children .
16 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 ) .
17 In Sunderland a single parent in her late teens told me .
18 Instead of a sliding scale to determine what income a single parent in work can keep without losing benefit , a standard £15 cut-off point has been introduced .
19 The result of this ineptitude was that I was rumbled as a single parent within days , if not hours , and subsequently approached as if I were a fatal poison masquerading as a person .
20 Grid Analysis of a Single Painting by Experienced and Inexperienced Observers
21 Then a single transformation to a frame with this acceleration would enable us to impose a frame in free fall everywhere ; this is the situation described by SR .
22 Right okay can you go into the , just log the data okay last week we were looking at test for structural change and we said that the Chow test is the most commonly used test for structural change in actual fact Chow developed two tests erm , the parameter constancy , I E structural change , fir the first one is where you remember what the , the principle behind the Chow test that you split the whole sample into two sub periods , right and you see whether the , some of the res residual sum of squares from each sub sample , right , is significantly different from the residual sum of squares from a single estimation over the who whole sample period , right if they are significantly different that suggests that the parameters that are estimated over the full er sample period , right , are n't as good estimates as the unrestricted estimates when we are allowing two different sets of parameters just to be estimated .
23 Edinburgh is known as ‘ The University in the City ’ because its buildings are located within and across the capital whose name it bears , rather than in a single campus outwith the city limits .
24 After knitting some simple woven fabrics using a single colour of weaving yarn , why not experiment with different yarn combinations .
25 The original state had the 32 facelets of a single colour on each face , with six different colours for the six cube faces .
26 This means that the ribber only knits every two rows , so the knitting has a single colour on the back instead of stripes .
27 The SRP60N ribber can be set like this , but you can also use the autoset lever to produce a fabric that has only a single colour on the reverse .
28 For a harmonious effect , aim to reflect the overall tonality of the room , or ensure that a single colour from the woodwork or furnishings is echoed in the rug .
29 But in the case of a single floor of an office building or a unit in a covered shopping centre , the landlord may have a legitimate concern to avoid the necessity of providing services ( eg heating , lighting , hot water , security ) for one tenant only .
30 The shop will be on a single floor in the central atrium of the new £27m Hallam University city centre complex — Campus 21 , designed to take the university into the 21st century .
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