Example sentences of "[be] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're a single mum you may be able to take your children with you when it 's your turn to sit . |
| 2 | What if you 're a single person only getting thirty nine something ? |
| 3 | If you 're a single parent and sick of being written about as a problem , rather than written for as a reader , One Parent Plus ( Jane Ward , Optima , £4.99 ) should be a refreshing change . |
| 4 | But it 's tricky if you 're a single parent — is n't that a ghastly expression ? |
| 5 | It 's also very important from the adults ' point of view that erm it does n't matter if you are a so called single parent , which , I by the way , am , or whether you are within erm a couple but actually in in fact you 're , you 're a single parent because you 're getting no support . |
| 6 | Erm so , you , you were on emergency , is that because you 're a single parent ? |
| 7 | but , when it comes to taking other drugs , for a thrill , yes you could do without them , and one of the ways you can do that is by taking time out for yourself , whether you 're a single parent or if you 're a you know , if you 're a family , the important thing is finding time for yourself and not for your family or your dependants . |
| 8 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 9 | In the public mind they 're a single entity . |
| 10 | Let me ask you then about the good life — you 're a single woman again , are you enjoying every minute of that ? |
| 11 | I , I am a single parent and I was over forty when I had my one and only son now the father walked out but I never deprived my son of knowing who is father was or what he was . |
| 12 | ‘ I am a single parent with a little boy who will be two in September and I would love to get to know some other young mums , either by letter or in person . |
| 13 | my brother who I was very close to went to the doctor and , instantly he , pres , er prescribed Tamazapam tablets for me , knowing that I myself am a single parent so I have a responsibility . |
| 14 | Jane Mahmoud , of Harrogate , said : ‘ I am a single parent with two children , and I want to be able to support myself . |
| 15 | Speaking as one of them , I can tell this person that I am a single mother , not from choice , but because my baby 's father scarpered as soon as I told him I was pregnant . |
| 16 | Once , there must have been a single core-vessel which had lost its way or had lost the use of its warp-vanes so that it could no longer jump back into truespace . |
| 17 | There has not been a single year when the CPS has been fully staffed . |
| 18 | But where there has been a single incident , the claim to ignorance may carry some plausibility , and be difficult for a prosecutor to overcome . |
| 19 | It had been a single hall . |
| 20 | Had it been a single pilot operation , the need to fly IFR would have resulted in a very tired individual . |
| 21 | The authorities subsequently declared , however , that there had been a single assassin , who had been captured on June 29 but not at the scene of the crime . |
| 22 | In what should have been a single sketch here protracted over two debilitating hours the only observable success was in managing to incite a young child in the audience to enquire with regular insistence : ‘ What 's going on Mum ? ’ |
| 23 | The bouncy castle at Brockworth attracts up to 200 children a day … and there has n't been a single accident . |
| 24 | The apartment she had been in had been a single room — like his own , spartanly furnished — and she had had to share washing and night-soil facilities . |
| 25 | The object of ( b ) is to require delivery of the accounts of an unlimited company if two or more limited companies would , if they had been a single entity , have been the parent of the unlimited company under the criteria in section 258 , although technically the unlimited company is not a subsidiary of any of them . |
| 26 | The bicycle was , and still is , an essential feature of the flat plain ; there could n't have been a single family without one . |
| 27 | Yes I mean issue with illegitimate children or his affair means that I mean even the line he was running is okay because I 'm rich so it 's not gon na and it 's not gon na and so he 's got these two sort of values , that if you are a single parent and you 're poor that makes you lesser and more immoral than if you were a single parent and you 're rich . |
| 28 | First , they are a single purpose authority , and , unlike the local planning authorities of England and Scotland , were able , and indeed required , to pursue positive planning as their first priority . |
| 29 | Standard controls are a single wheel on a fixed left-side-only or throw-over yoke pivoting fore-and-aft on a centreline pillar ; but as it is partly intended for training G-DHCB has twin control wheels at either end of a Y-shaped structure . |
| 30 | If you are a single mother you can in most circumstances appoint a guardian in your will to care for your children on your death . |