Example sentences of "[conj] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a national society to maintain such a link it is doubtful if amateur radio could survive in today 's cut-throat world of radio communication where a single frequency in commercial terms is estimated to be worth millions of pounds . |
| 2 | It was a satisfaction to me many years later , when I was a member of a Royal Commission on Tribunals of Enquiry , established to advise how secrets should be dealt with , that I was able to persuade the chairman of the Commission , Lord Salmon , and through him the whole of the Commission , to recommend that there should never again be an inquiry of the Denning type , where a single individual was authorised to investigate any piece of gossip or scandal relating to any prominent public person . |
| 3 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 4 | This is particularly necessary where a single person is responsible for several languages . |
| 5 | The simplest example is muonic hydrogen , where a single muon encircles a proton . |
| 6 | They can spot conditions where the desert locusts are likely to breed rapidly and move into crop-growing areas , where a single swarm can consume 80 000 tonnes of corn a day — enough to feed 400000 people for a whole year . |
| 7 | And no joy for West Brom in the northeast where a single goal separated those sides as Sunderland prepare to meet Aston Villa in the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 8 | However , where a single battery is used to power both the radio equipment and the gyro motor , the battery pack normally supplied with the radio equipment will not have sufficient capacity to give a reasonable safety margin . |
| 9 | Where a single instrument has the principal melody or an important phrase the passage is marked SOLO ( when more than one instrument is involved use the plural SOLI ) . |
| 10 | The newest of the four is the Dom Hotel ( 20980 e ; 3926668 w ) , where a single room is Dm215–295 . |
| 11 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 12 | On the one hand what the gay movement had done was to involve me in a very intense one-to-one relationship , a couple relationship , and at the same time the ideology that the movement was instilling in me was away from the idea of couple relationships and away from the idea that sex should be conventionally tied to relationships or a single relationship . |
| 13 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 14 | Advice and assistance in making a will can only be given to a client who is over 70 , or disabled or suffering from a mental disorder ( or a parent or guardian wishing to provide for such a person ) , or a single parent wishing to appoint a testamentary guardian . |
| 15 | I sometimes go down to an 18 when maggot fishing or a single brandling or grain of sweetcorn on a 16 , but it is not very often such refinements are necessary . |
| 16 | This formulation enabled Althusser to theorize a decentred totality which allowed the possibility of differences without reducing each instance to the operation of an essence or a single principle , such as the dialectic . |
| 17 | The woman in the greengrocer 's shop would sometimes slip a bunch of violets or a single head of a chrysanthemum that had accidentally snapped into Melanie 's hand and this pleased her most of all . |
| 18 | For 5 guineas a year or a single donation of 50 guineas , the allowance rose to 3 in-patients and 2 out-patients . |
| 19 | There is enough storage capacity in the DNA of a single lily seed or a single salamander sperm to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica 60 times over . |
| 20 | ‘ The standard unit is half a pint or a single spirit measure , but my standard glass , poured with a generous hand , would contain four or five single measures . |
| 21 | She was persuaded to concede on that point , then proposed to share everything with the production team — until it was pointed out that if just one penny , or a single biscuit was diverted in that direction , and it became known , we 'd be lynched . |
| 22 | There are differing views about whether three years or a single year period would be better or worse . |
| 23 | The camera can be preset or remotely controlled to cover the subject or area to be photographed , and provision made for a sequence of pictures or a single exposure , according to the camera type and its shutter release . |
| 24 | IBM Corp will launch two new Thinkpad laptops within the next couple of weeks according to documents seen by Computerworld : the paper says the new ThinkPad 720 and 720C machines will be based on the current Model 700s with faster 25/50MHz 486SLC2 processors , 160Mb hard disks and management facilities that bump battery life up to 7.75 hours on the monochrome and 4.8 hours on the colour version ; the new machines also have improved peripheral support , with space for either two PCMCIA type 2 cards or a single type 3 ; a new sub-notebook computer is also ready , but will not be announced until the summer . |
| 25 | This spell enables the caster to transport a friendly or an enemy unit or a single model up to 18″ across the table in any direction . |
| 26 | In a sense , any ethnographic study is a case-study , since all such research concentrates on a relatively small group or a single institution . |
| 27 | She would deliver Arfur at eight fifty a.m. ’ magnificent in a black coat , black ankle-length dress and black leather boots , and reappear at three fifteen , leaning against the climbing frame in the same ensemble , garnished with a scarf or a single piece of jewellery . |
| 28 | A single species tank can be taken to mean one of two things ; a tank in which is kept a number of specimens of the same species , a breeding pair , or a single specimen . |
| 29 | The operators can , of they have a mind to question the systems ' automatic decisions , run through the status of the entire building or a single valve . |
| 30 | What any of these matters have to do with intercountry trade or a single market in Europe is not readily apparent . |