Example sentences of "a single [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After knitting some simple woven fabrics using a single colour of weaving yarn , why not experiment with different yarn combinations . |
| 2 | And with ‘ perfumed strips ’ now impregnated into the pages of so many magazines , it 's possible to try new scents for a single day without venturing further than your friendly newsagent . |
| 3 | Manpower constraints , often found in industry , make it impracticable to allocate a single person to using online services . |
| 4 | A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools . |
| 5 | Amdahl claims 60 existing customers of UTS on 5995s , and says it has n't lost a single customer to downsizing — strange given that it is talking up its Sparc systems as rightsizing tools . |
| 6 | It is important to note that the criteria range must not have any blank rows so reset it to be just a single row before giving the new Extract command . |
| 7 | In its style of labelling , therefore , this differs from the present driving law , with its separate offences of reckless driving and causing death by reckless driving : the equivalent would be a single offence of driving in a manner likely to endanger life . |
| 8 | Montrose , however , finding himself in such an impasse , and with the prospect of recurring battles before him , for the collector held office for only a single year before having to seek re-election , had his own solution to the difficulties which the office entailed for such as himself . |
| 9 | Several young plants can be formed from a single stem by making a series of wounds at a convenient distance apart and burying each in a prepared hollow in the ground . |
| 10 | In 1935–36 Albert came within a single goal of achieving something no Palace player has yet managed — topping the Football League list of goalscorers — for he hit 38 goals and only W.G. Richardson of West Bromwich got 39 . |
| 11 | In some ways , of course , this is healthy because RMI is not a single entity , nor is there a single way of implementing RMI . |
| 12 | In adopting the necessary expedient of a relative norm , quantitative stylistics abandons the idea that there is a single way of measuring deviance in a text . |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't said a single word about joining you in Italy . ’ |
| 14 | Specifically , Sartre creates a single history by excluding all histories except that of the West ; his history as totalization can therefore only work through a determined ethnocentricity . |
| 15 | Mr Burrow said society was becoming more demanding in its expectation of the police , and the entire attitude of individuals could be based on a single experience of meeting an officer . |
| 16 | We have heard two extensive speeches from the Opposition Front Bench , but they did not devote a single minute to answering that basic , common-sense question . |
| 17 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 18 | At breakfast I completely wrecked my egg while clumsily trying to open it — egg all over , nice and sticky — and could not cut a single soldier without upsetting the plate . |
| 19 | In addition , they receive just a single rupee for collecting a kilogramme of papers and rags , while their efforts are turned into substantial profits by the recycling industries . |
| 20 | The major factors requiring the enactment of legislation on liability for nuclear incidents were the risk of widespread damage , possibly involving losses of millions of pounds , from a single emission of ionising radiations and the possible injustice in the Limitation Acts owing to the long periods which might elapse between the impact of ionising radiations on the plaintiff and his suffering ascertainable damages . |
| 21 | Secondly , all the terms of the lease should be regarded as a single bargain for letting the property . |
| 22 | It has also further refined the part to create the 68EN360 , described as the first communications controller to combine a processor with Ethernet and wide area network functionality on a single chip for internetworking applications such as Ethernet bridges and routers . |
| 23 | KW is derived from the same basic sunspot data set as FCL but the raw maximum-to-maximum and minimum-to-minimum length series were combined into a single series before applying a 7-term binomial filter . |
| 24 | Studies of whole word recognition attempt to recognise a word as a single entity by examining certain global features of the word . |
| 25 | There is rarely a single method for cleaning anything . |
| 26 | They had learned a new set of problem management techniques which they were beginning to use as a matter of course without seeing them as being a single method of solving a particular problem . |
| 27 | The defendants face a single charge of conspiring to defraud after allegedly misleading the market over the result of the flopped Blue Arrow £837m issue in September 1987 . |
| 28 | The charge for a single room with bed and breakfast and evening meal is likely to be approximately £60 per week ; and from £40 per week for a single room with cooking facilities provided . |
| 29 | The charge for a single room with bed and breakfast and evening meal is likely to be approximately £58 per week ; for a single room with bed and breakfast plus weekend meals £44 per week ; and from £40 per week for a single room with cooking facilities provided . |