Example sentences of "[adv] by a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
| 2 | Society comes to resemble ‘ a constellation of governments , rather than an association of individuals held together by a single government ’ . |
| 3 | The knife flashed , a steely glitter as lightning struck again across the far side of the gorge , the crackle of it hitting the rocks and followed almost instantaneously by a single shattering crash of thunder . |
| 4 | It is obvious that if the present decision is undisturbed attention must be paid to the quite new arrangements prescribed by section 19(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides , so far as is relevant , that any jurisdiction of the High Court shall be exercised only by a single judge of that court , except in so far as it is , by or by virtue of rules of court or any other statutory provision , required to be exercised by a divisional court . |
| 5 | Finally , he reached an evil , narrow street lit only by a single lamp . |
| 6 | The gentleman nodded briefly , and , as the landlord left , stepped into the dimness of a dark room lit only by a single candle on the mantel above the hearth , and the glowing embers of a dying fire below . |
| 7 | Eventually , they came to a large set of steel doors , watched over by a single guard . |
| 8 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 9 | For the first three centuries of its existence , until 751 , it was ruled over by a single family , that of the Merovingians . |
| 10 | An exactly analogous state of affairs occurs in the use of the Debye model in dielectric theory ( see , for example , Frölich ( 1958 ) or Daniel ( 1967 ) ) where the behaviour of a dielectric can not be represented exactly by a single relaxation time model . |
| 11 | I recently met Mrs Kjaersgaard in London to discuss our common objective to forge a link between parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united not by a single government but with a free market . |
| 12 | They could be lost for ever by a single failure of vigilance . |
| 13 | Eight rows of dots are printed at once by a single horizontal move of the print head across the paper . |
| 14 | By the same reasoning we must conclude that K could plausibly have arisen , directly by a single change , from something slightly different again , which we may call K " . |
| 15 | A macro facility allows them to be stored and issued automatically by a single keystroke . |
| 16 | Crisis and clarity are notebook froth whipped up by a single hidden energy . |
| 17 | Commonly used components such as instruments , machine tools , rivets , nuts and bolts , instead of being produced efficiently by a single supplier are manufactured by all branches of defence industry ; missile electronics , for example , are produced by the Ministry of General Machine Building . |
| 18 | No search should ever be carried out by a single individual . |
| 19 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 20 | In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) . |
| 21 | The appeal court decided that the case should be heard tomorrow by a single judge . |
| 22 | I am determined to go to Scotland , though unaccompanied even by a single company of soldiers . |
| 23 | To another correspondent he wrote , in a letter clearly corrected since , ‘ I am determined to go to Scotland , though unaccompanied even by a single company of soldiers . ’ |
| 24 | Relatively unimportant as these smaller losses may seem compared with the main one , together they may add up to a total picture of her life which she feels has been shattered overnight by a single blow . |
| 25 | A thin disdainful blonde girl led me up narrow stairs to a room filled completely by a single bed . |
| 26 | It can be described briefly by a single word — complicated . |
| 27 | Where there is a monominerallic , or near-monominerallic , precursor fabric , as in carbonates and evaporites , replacement is commonly by a single mineral . |