Example sentences of "a single [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the engine was warm , a single prime and a turn of the key got us turning and burning and we completed the pre-taxi cockpit chores of plugging in headsets ( sensibly , the sockets are located between the two front seats at elbow level , obviating tangles with any controls ) and latching the doors . |
| 2 | The chemical structure of the vitamin consists of a chroman nucleus substituted with a single hydroxyl group and a long-chain hydrocarbon . |
| 3 | Fully discharging a single NiCad cell does it no harm , as you state in the article . |
| 4 | Initial experiments by Heather Reed , an ex-PhD student funded by MAFF , showed that providing a single nest site for a group of four birds was insufficient . |
| 5 | The alternative criterion for assigning lexical units to a single lexeme is that their senses should be local senses belonging to the same sense-spectrum . |
| 6 | Thus all the senses of mouth discussed earlier will represent lexical units belonging to a single lexeme . |
| 7 | Seton halted further profitless talk and sent the emissaries hurrying back with a single cannon-shot above their heads . |
| 8 | In the 1970s , at the University of Washington in Seattle , he succeeded in isolating a single electron and holding it in his trap for nearly 10 months before losing it . |
| 9 | The ‘ signal ’ to look for , then , to observe a W , is a single electron carrying lots of energy . |
| 10 | The UA1 team has found five occasions on which a single electron with all the right characteristics was produced . |
| 11 | A single electron or positron can not identify a W - of W + with certainty ; there is always a neutrino emitted with the electron in the decay and this can not be detected . |
| 12 | Mica is an ionically bonded mineral in which , because of the arithmetic of the electrical charges in the molecule , every so often there is a layer of metal atoms in the crystal in which each atom has to share a single electron 's worth of charge with several near neighbours , so that this layer in the crystal is a weak one . |
| 13 | The simplest atom , hydrogen , consists of a single electron encircling the nucleus which has a single positive charge ; the positively charged particle that comprises the hydrogen nucleus is called the ‘ proton ’ . |
| 14 | Researchers from Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Cambridge Laboratory , working with Cambridge University 's Microelectronics Research Centre claim to have fabricated a memory cell that uses a single electron to store one bit , vastly reducing the power that would be required by huge-capacity memory chips — a device the size of a silver dollar could store 1T-bits while drawing just 0.1W : in current technology it would be the size of a tennis court and dissipate 10KW . |
| 15 | We can speak of an orbital as being full if it contains two electrons , half-filled if it has a single electron , or empty . |
| 16 | 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) . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly the Germans would accept this , they had proposed it when the Commission had by turns been denying the existence of damage in West Germany and demanding proof based on a single pollutant ( rather than multiple stress ) . |
| 18 | Q I would like to know if it is possible to join two tanks of 36″ x 15″ x 12″ to make a single 72″ x 15″ x 12″ tank . |
| 19 | It is rare to find a single horn in a small orchestra . |
| 20 | It wore a goat 's mask , with a single horn growing from the forehead . |
| 21 | Previously , only trade in new horn was banned but , with a single horn fetching as much as £30,000 , Chinese dealers have been buying up big game trophies for export to the Far East . |
| 22 | The computer keyboard also has a Delete key to delete letters in front of the cursor , a Backspace key to delete letters behind the cursor , a set of Cursor Movement keys that move the cursor up or down one line or side to side one space , a set of Function keys that perform preset functions with a single keypress and an Escape key that is normally used to reverse or undo the last action . |
| 23 | And , in addition , there are dozens of other autonomous voluntary groups , many operating only in one locality , launched by the enthusiasm of a single initiator , as well as certain quite large national organizations focusing on one type of disorder , such as Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | According to Miller ( 1956 ) , who coined the term , a single chunk may contain a small or a large amount of information . |
| 27 | Being such an advocate of the family , it strikes a sad note , in his biography , that Lord Joseph 's own four children are unmentioned , or that , after 30 years of marriage , he separated from his wife to become , in effect , a single parent himself . |
| 28 | When my own daughter was born I was a single parent , and had to work to pay the bills , so I missed the best years of her childhood . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For example one person I worked with was a single parent who had five dependent children living with her , and no other adult appeared to be involved . |