Example sentences of "[prep] a single person [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the purchasing power of a single person 's pension in Britain was just less than 75 per cent of the French pension , 60 per cent of its West German counterpart and only 50 per cent of the value of the equivalent Dutch pension . |
| 2 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 3 | Only when their husbands retire can they receive pensions as dependants ( Dependants ' benefits equal 60 per cent of a single person 's basic pension . ) |
| 4 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
| 5 | However , there remain horizontal inequities in that married couples are entitled to the ‘ married couple 's allowance ’ ( equal to 0.6 of a single person 's allowance ( SA ) ) , offering them tax gains compared with unmarried couples . |
| 6 | We are not in the business of giving handouts to the Duke of Westminster because he happens to move out of the present matrimonial home and into a single person 's flat . |
| 7 | The Labour party fears that somewhere there might be a single person who is also a millionaire who could benefit from a single person 's discount , so it is absolutely against the proposal . |
| 8 | The 1980 Green Paper , The Taxation of Husband and Wife , had as a central proposal the scrapping of the married man 's allowance to be replaced by a single person 's allowance each for husband and wife . |