Example sentences of "[adj] [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But will all of it empty a single bin ? |
| 2 | Nor did I know that , in the normal human body , up to 100,000 cells can become cancerous every single day . |
| 3 | At eight o'clock in the evening of 17 August 1759 the single frigate which Boscawen had left to watch the Straits arrived in Gibraltar harbour with the alarming news that the enemy was about to escape them after all . |
| 4 | A single instance of B , and of B on its own , can not enable us to associate it with A. The universe as a whole , however , is just such a single instance : we have no direct experience either of other worlds or of world-designers . |
| 5 | Now I 'm not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single non-symmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate . |
| 6 | If , however , the company creates £1m of debenture stock it can issue it ; to subscribers in such amounts as each wants , giving each a single certificate and he can sell and transfer any fraction of it . |
| 7 | In Afghanistan the stalemate between the superpowers has ensured that no single authority rules . |
| 8 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 9 | By 1922 the single school-room was no longer adequate to meet the needs of the local school population , so the full width of the building was extended eastwards under a pair of pitched roofs to create a second classroom , head-teacher 's room and internal side entrance lobby replacing the demolished attached porch ( Plate 32 ) . |
| 10 | Yet I have known students to suppose that this is all a single problem , to be disposed of in a single breath . |
| 11 | ’ In 1977 a single part of the work ( Part 2 , of six ) made £3,400 at auction . |
| 12 | In 1795 a single labourer in the Midland and southern arable regions could , with supplements in kind , earn the equivalent of 10s ( 50p ) a week . |
| 13 | First a single card subject was viewed over a range of exposures and the results plotted ( Figure ) . |
| 14 | From April 1 a single hackney carriage licence will go up from £150 to £220 and a private hire will go up from £150 to £200 . |
| 15 | She went straight to the small table at the far side of the bed , pulled open the single drawer . |
| 16 | And er getting back to that and cleaning it with a real good clean every single week . |
| 17 | But even when I go , I spend the whole evening nibbling , then calorie-counting every single thing . |
| 18 | In 1919 a single warrant was signed alleging such an emergency ( the excuse being the threat of Bolshevism ) and interceptions have continued on this basis , with the exception of wartime censorship from 1939–45 , to this day without debate or approval by Parliament . |
| 19 | Extraordinary in Yorkshire , where the most profound emotion slowly worked up and out , tightly wrapped into the cold air , channelled through flat vowels , into a word or at most a single sentence , while all the rest was conveyed only with the slightest movement of the body . |
| 20 | For one he has created an office , for another a library and for a third a single piece of furniture . |
| 21 | For it is very difficult to specify just how falsifiable a single theory is . |