Example sentences of "[to-vb] a single [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , it seems that it is misguided even to try to find a single deficit theory of Broca 's aphasia , because Broca 's aphasia is a clinical syndrome , not a theoretical syndrome . |
| 2 | And a breeze that failed to set a single leaf atremble . |
| 3 | What was needed was ‘ to radically wipe out the major differences between towns and villages ’ in order ‘ to more powerfully homogenize our socialist society , to create a single worker people ’ . |
| 4 | An Italian cabinet committee has approved plans to create a single telephone company , Telecom Italia SpA by the end of 1995 out of a merger of holding company Stet SpA , Sociata Italiana per l'esercisio delle Telecomunicazioni pA , the main phone company , Italcable SpA , the international carrier , and the satellite operator Telespazio SpA , according to the Financial Times . |
| 5 | There was a desire to create a single referral point and a truly accessible and localized service that everyone would know about and use . |
| 6 | The RSC points out that the proposals to create a single environment agency are rather unfortunately timed , because both HMIP and NRA are relatively new . |
| 7 | It 's a good idea to change brands of shampoo and conditioner to avoid a single product build-up |
| 8 | He bowled for 23 overs and looked an old head , certainly not one who had failed to play a single championship match last season . |
| 9 | CAS : The Communicating Software Specification standard is n't confined to fax modems — it 's mostly used to network a single fax card . |
| 10 | The government 's controversial decision in April to militarize the fight against drug trafficking [ see p. 38143 ] had led rural workers to form a Single Union Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia ( CSUTCB ) on May 15 . |
| 11 | A network strategy was developed , establishing three functional segments — administrative & financial , scientific & horticultural , and bibliographic — operating specialised applications software on three file-servers linked to form a single Ethernet network . |
| 12 | At the moment , the International Olympics Committee , which runs the Games , asks national bodies to nominate a single ticket agency … in this case Sportsworld Travel . |
| 13 | According to Electronic News , Hewlett-Packard Co 's Sterling or PA10 project to do a single chip implementation of the processor and all the support circuitry of a low-end Precision Architecture RISC workstation is now being fabricated by Hitachi Ltd for use as an embedded processor — and the part is said to cost under $10 in large quantities . |
| 14 | RISC I was developed as the university believed it was feasible to build a single chip computer faster than the Digital Electronics Corporation 's VAX-11/780 , a CISC design . |
| 15 | It is not possible to prescribe a single examination schedule which is appropriate for all products and all situations . |
| 16 | And yet , in spite of all his efforts and ingenuity , of huge expenditures of labour and money , he has so far failed to exterminate a single insect species . |
| 17 | City wisdom suggests that you should n't put all your eggs in one basket , so for most people it is best to consider a single company PEP only after you 've taken out a £6,000 general plan . |
| 18 | Fibreglass pools are obviously entirely rigid and free-standing , and present no such difficulties during construction , but one must be very careful over the choice of design , for most are made by fibreglass manufacturers with little understanding of plant life and it is often the case that reeds , rushes and irises are expected to become established on a marginal shelf no more than 8 cm ( 3 in ) wide , while the deeper areas of the pool will not have a sufficiently flat floor to place a single waterlily basket . |
| 19 | It is desirable to have a single file area , both for efficient file processing and for simplicity , but this is not always possible . |
| 20 | If it had been up to me , you 'd have one police communication room , not two , because I 've worked in operations control , and you want to have a single control room for your authority , if any other system is less efficient than that . |
| 21 | As well as developing an AS/400 H-series processor around the Rios 2 RISC , IBM Corp is working on a parallel project to develop a single processor architecture that would become the basis of all its mid-range offerings in around 1995 , the May issue of IBM System User believes . |
| 22 | As well as developing an AS/400 H-series processor around the Rios 2 RISC , IBM Corp is working on a parallel project to develop a single processor architecture that would become the basis of all its mid-range offerings in around 1995 , the May issue of IBM System User believes . |
| 23 | In particular , this project seeks to develop a single data model in which attribute and topographic geometry are stored under the same relational architecture — so avoiding many of the shortcomings of systems utilising independent structures for attribute data and their spatial references . |
| 24 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 25 | On that day the three surviving entrants in a technical contest sponsored by America 's Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) decided to form a ‘ grand alliance ’ to offer a single HDTV system , which is expected to be perfected some time next year . |
| 26 | At the Princeton Laboratories , even using powerful mainframe technology , it still takes an average of four seconds of real time to compress a single video frame . |
| 27 | Jeffrey Sachs and David Lipton show how problems connected with the banking operations of Russia 's former planned economy , together with the country 's misguided attempt to maintain a single rouble zone ( as recommended by the IMF ) , have had disastrous consequences . |
| 28 | However , we can not use a simple average ( mean ) of the four ratios for each township to produce a single multiplier factor because they were determined by different methods . |
| 29 | Yet even when Ruddock allowed his sleep to be interrupted by thoughts of Lewis 's punching ability , he could n't have envisaged his boxing rival having the power to produce a single knockout punch . |
| 30 | This makes it easy to arrange for the vendor(s) to sign a single acquisition agreement . |