Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 2 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 3 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 4 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |
| 5 | However , in Re Cadbury Schweppes Ltd 's Agreement [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 307 a parent company and a subsidiary were not treated as a single person where two companies agreed to accept restrictions on the supply of goods to a third which was a subsidiary of one of them . |
| 6 | The group of organisms — the flock of birds , the pack of wolves — does not merge into a single vehicle , precisely because the genes in the flock or the pack do not share a common method of leaving the present vehicle . |
| 7 | PEACE envoy Lord Owen warned last night that Bosnia-Herzegovina would not survive as a single state if Moslems and Croats continued fighting . |
| 8 | The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc , pursuing its interests whatever they may be . |
| 9 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 10 | Zimbabwe 's economy is not based on a single commodity like Zambia 's and it did not experience the mass exodus of whites and ‘ scorched earth ’ policies of the Portuguese in Mozambique and Angola . |
| 11 | Unlike realism , liberal pluralism is not based on a single set of ideas developed over time , but embraces a variety of approaches . |
| 12 | Adulthood is not recognised as a single event evident to everyone . |
| 13 | Note that if national currencies are not replaced by a single union currency and the as if assumption is met , then intra-union exchange rates will be fixed even if they are not de jure fixed . |
| 14 | Ideally , the product should also run on a range of platforms so that the user is not tied to a single source of hardware . |
| 15 | She infers that using such forms means ‘ absence of cognitive flexibility ’ and quotes the studies by Bereiter and others ( Osborn , 1967 ) of lower-class children who , it is argued , ‘ can not conceive of a single object having two attributes ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 16 | One of the best and cheapest around is the Alesis 3630 which , at only 1U , offers features often not found on a single model . |
| 17 | Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number . |
| 18 | This susceptibility is not caused by a single gene defect but is thought to result from the cumulative interaction of a number of genes . |
| 19 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 20 | His great virtue was that he did not rely on a single visit , but frequently returned after a period of years and was able to comment on progress — or lack of it — and the way in which new legislation was being implemented . |
| 21 | The English actions were not combined in a single trial but subject to an order of Steyn J. which provided for the selection of lead cases to ensure determination of the major points of law and to avoid multiplicity of litigation . |
| 22 | It is rubbish to think that , because Sheikh Mohammed and his brothers did not bid for a single horse at Newmarket last week , the racing game is about to die on its feet . |
| 23 | It looks as if the two books were not conceived as a single entity although they interrelate in the way that Hilton picks up and elaborates aspects of the subject of Scale 1 in Scale 2 . |
| 24 | For this reason , although Iveco runs a fully integrated European operation , the group can not trade as a single company with a single board of directors . |
| 25 | It was symbolic , perhaps , of the deep-rooted nature of national instincts that the ECSC could not agree upon a single language in which to conduct its activities . |
| 26 | The rhetorical theorist would not dissent from a single word , but would feel impelled to add a further remark . |
| 27 | This truth is to be reinterpreted in the light of my principle that art does not derive from a single impulse ( i.e. the Apolline impulse towards beauty ) , but from two : the Dionysiac as well as the Apolline . |
| 28 | The other term , Cognitive linguistics , was not indexed as a single unit at all , although there were a number of compounds with Cognitive as the headword . |