Example sentences of "[noun] for a single " in BNC.

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1 To take a somewhat unlikely example , if application were made to the Secretary of State for an order under this procedure to give planning permission for a single project the response would be that there is a complete planning code of public legislation to cover that requirement , and in the absence of exceptional circumstances recourse should be had to that code .
2 Room rates are pitched at £69 for a single and up to £140 for a de luxe double .
3 If one was not worried about the sovereignty arguments there might be a case for a single currency in Europe .
4 It can be used to provide the hot water supply for a washing machine , which is not the case for a single point heater .
5 In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting .
6 A single off the hip ; a pull for one more run ; a vain swish ; gasps ; a hook for a single , Lamb the fielder .
7 In colliding plane wave problems , what is essentially a coordinate singularity for a single wave is transformed into a fold singularity prior to the collision by the presence of curvature singularities at the points and .
8 Set against the British Rail 's as yet unapproved plans for a single specially constructed high speed line between the Channel Tunnel and London look rather modest although work is underway to electrify the three main trunk routes between London and Glasgow to take trains at up to 225kph .
9 The Danes will not have to go along with plans for a single currency , or with plans for a common Euro-defence policy .
10 In a statement released on Feb. 7 , the Bundesbank , the German central bank , expressed doubts about the plans for a single currency outlined in the Maastricht Treaty .
11 I have used my wife and son as models , and my wife , who sadly died three years ago , was often heroic , posing for up to 30 hours for a single drawing .
12 The fact that we were looking towards the United States might have been an acceptable concept during the war , but it has been an unacceptable concept for the past 12 years , during which Europe has been creating itself and showing an enthusiasm for a single European currency and a central bank and for increasing the powers of the European Community 's institutions .
13 It is impossible to describe an organization in behaviour terms ( i.e. processes ) other than momentarily because the processes are always changing ; but when we speak of the processes we freeze that dynamic interaction for a single moment , take a picture , and know that a moment later the picture will be different .
14 The prospects of the party improved somewhat with the adoption at the 1937 conference of an ‘ Immediate Programme ’ of nationalisation for a single term of office : this included all the major measures of the post-war Labour government except for iron and steel , which in any case was not to be fundamentally reorganised before the Labour government left office in 1951 .
15 The RSC , Ofwat and the House of Commons Environment Committee have submitted responses to the government 's proposals for a single environment agency .
16 A key part of EC proposals for a single European market in pharmaceuticals has stalled in a dispute between the European Commission and the Council of Ministers .
17 The weekly basic state pension from April 1991 to April 1992 is £52.00 for a single person and £83.25 for a married couple .
18 Now the European peoples party manifesto calls for a single currency , a central bank , the incorporation of the social chapter a common immigration policy and a constitution for the whole of Europe .
19 To buy a brand new PA system costs a lot of money for a single person , and as a group it is a huge risk as we are still at school ( lower 6th ) and do not wish to spend that sort of money when we can not guarantee we will still be together in a week , let alone a year 's time .
20 Which were good money for a single fella .
21 Primary schools , while considering the whole curriculum for a single class , assume that ‘ the primary school curriculum that a particular child encounters [ is ] … the sum of his experiences in a number of classes ’ .
22 In one of their experiments they first find the region of the visual field that causes electrical activity to be recorded through an electrode placed in a particular patch of neocortex , and then they map the receptive field for a single cell , as illustrated for a retinal ganglion cell in Figure 4 .
23 — two letters can stand for one sound ( the letter-pair " sh " stands for a single sound ) , and one letter can stand for a sequence of two sounds ( in our dialect , " o " in the word " no " stands for two sounds in sequence , a vowel first , followed by a " w " sound made with the lips ) ;
24 Pensions will increase by £1.95 a week to £56.10 for a single person and £3.10 a week to £89.80 for couples .
25 By 1982 ( the EC 's 25th birthday ) the momentum for a Single European Market had come to a virtual standstill .
26 As far as open-loop control is concerned , however , the use of a dedicated microprocessor for a single motor would be unnecessarily expensive .
27 For the rest of her stay on the island , she did n't let the ragged emotions of that near-miss encounter with Guy trouble her mind for a single waking minute .
28 The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain .
29 AVS version 4.0 is priced at $7,500 for a single user licence — version 5 , promised to have more multi-user facilities , follows next spring .
30 Prices start at about £1 for a single bloom , £15 for pot plants , and £70 for trees .
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