Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] [prep] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , in 1,189 densely-printed pages , space has not been found for a single illustration . |
| 2 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 3 | It was now clear that the Council could not be concluded in a single session . |
| 4 | It was argued that users of financial statements should be aware that the performance of complex organisations can not be summarised in a single number and that to obtain a proper understanding of such performance , knowledge of a range of important aspects is required . |
| 5 | The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word . |
| 6 | Accounting can not be studied as a single honours degree . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The argument is that a constitution need not be embodied in a single document or , indeed , wholly written . |
| 11 | It was difficult , in any of this , to discover what a future socialist or communist society would be like ; if there was consensus about anything it was that it would not be based upon public ownership , would not be dominated by a single ruling party , would not supersede capitalism and might not even offer an alternative to it . |
| 12 | The Director of Public Prosecutions brings this application for judicial review of these decisions of the single justice on Friday , 16 February ; the first , declining to deal with the issue of the alleged breach of bail condition by Mr. Bell on the ground that that issue could not be resolved by a single justice of the peace but required a court consisting of at least two justices , and the second , to adjourn the hearing of the alleged breach of condition to a court sitting on Monday , 19 February , and to remand Mr. Bell in custody in the intervening period . |
| 13 | Under the 1982 rule change member firms could not be owned by a single non-member and could not therefore become part of wider groupings — a fact which meant that the London exchange had , in some senses , closed its doors to the rest of the international community . |
| 14 | It is important that gross and tare weighings should not be entered on a single ticket unless the interval between the two weighings is less than 24 hours . |
| 15 | It is almost always a lack of storage space , or the fact that the file is dynamic and so can not be loaded in a single operation , that prevents self-indexing , and not the time taken to carry out the calculations . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | Specifically , the problems of unaggregated ( or unconsolidated ) fund accounts is that the cost of a particular service will not be shown as a single item . |
| 18 | Variscan folding and thrusting can , however , be seen north of the Midi Overthrust , and the general view of workers in the U.K. is that here the Variscan Front can not be identified with a single laterally-continuous thrust plane , though locally it may be ( Hancock 1983 ) . |
| 19 | As the research in intelligent knowledge-based systems has progressed steadily over the past decade , it has become increasingly clear that there are classes of complex problems which can not be solved by a single system in isolation ; they require several systems to work together interactively in a co- operative framework . |
| 20 | Although a whole fashion can not be reversed by a single book , Gurin and Bennett provide a scientific analysis of dieting and why most people should n't do it . |
| 21 | It soon became apparent that the whole report could not be considered in a single meeting and it was suggested that another meeting be arranged to continue with it . |
| 22 | ( 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 . |
| 23 | These plants have n't been sprayed with a single chemical . |
| 24 | Women and Beauty in April nineteen forty three wrote - there is a special kind of beauty preparation that ca n't be bought in a single shop in the world because you must make it yourself from spirit , heart and simple courage and you make it fresh each day . |