Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 2 | In his Philosophie anatomique of 1818–22 , Geoffroy argued that the basic similarity that allowed all the vertebrates to be assigned to a single type of organization reflected something more than mere engineering efficiency . |
| 3 | ‘ Even our most loyal customers will be limited to a single car each . ’ |
| 4 | So , in French , ( 45 ) is ambiguous as to whether there is one or more addressees , but ( 46 ) can only be addressed to a single addressee : Vous parlez francais ? ( 46 ) Vous etes le professeur ? |
| 5 | Another way in which the cat 's sound system appears much more complex than that of other species is in the degree of variation that can be applied to a single type of call . |
| 6 | The boolean functions which can be applied to a single bit position can then be extended to what are called logical operations on the whole word . |
| 7 | Most routes will now be franchised to a single operator , which will bid for a monopoly on each one . |
| 8 | In summary , the view was that exceptional items should not be transferred to a single heading of ‘ exceptional ’ , because profit before exceptional items could then become the focus of financial statement presentation and as a result operating profit would be likely to become more blurred , rather than clarified . |
| 9 | Sampling therefore needs to be related to a single condition such as baseflow or highflow ; different suites of elements may be mobilised at different pH conditions and carefully designed sampling programmes can take advantage of these differences . |
| 10 | They concluded that the mother 's diet ‘ may influence the likelihood of infantile colic in breast-fed children , but that the source of the colic can not be attributed to a single dietary component [ ie milk ] . |
| 11 | Morton , in collaboration with others , has argued , from 1966 to the present time , that in the Pauline corpus only Romans , 1 and 2 Corinthians , and Galatians form a homogeneous group which can be attributed to a single hand . |
| 12 | Only differences between classes of individuals can in principle be attributed to a single cause . |
| 13 | Thus it was a natural step that in 1875 the Probate , Divorce , and Admiralty jurisdictions should be entrusted to a single division of the High Court . |
| 14 | The Financial Services Act requires insurance advisers either to be tied to a single insurance company , or to be entirely independent . |
| 15 | Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition . |
| 16 | He has pointed out that both our own experience and Marx 's writings suggest that changes result from a disparate collection of circumstances which can not be reduced to a single contradiction , but are jointly sufficient for a situation to become volatile . |
| 17 | ( 4.7 ) unc The sequential composition of a pair of assignments to different lists of variables may be reduced to a single assignment using this law with 3.2 and 3.3 . |
| 18 | Part of the philosophical interest in this area arose from the questions of whether ( a ) all indexical expressions can be reduced to a single primary one , and thence ( b ) whether this final pragmatic residue can be translated out into some eternal context-free artificial language . |
| 19 | Several actions can be allocated to a single state . |
| 20 | It will often happen that a number of amendments , differing in form but not in substance , will be proposed to a single clause of a Bill . |
| 21 | ( ALT patterns , perhaps with different boolean parameters , are distinct if they can not be reconciled to a single choice , as was done in example ( b ) above . |
| 22 | Certain powers of the court may be delegated to a single justice or a justices ' clerk . |
| 23 | Completed data files can be sent to a single bulk storage system or to the node containing the printer or plotter . |
| 24 | I believe the issues about the western road are different but but I can say that as far as the northern route is concerned , Scotton Parish Council would be more than happy if i the notation on the key diagram could be changed to a single star . |