Example sentences of "[coord] [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as with the Rogallo wing , or the single cone scoops , any lateral shift of the Flexifoil will steer the kite ; but there is a difference in that the single line attachment point allows the Flexifoil to adopt its own twist , and the angle of attack is reduced on the inside of the turn . |
| 2 | Erm well it 's sort of hel , it 's it 's really up to the mother really , you know or the single parent . |
| 3 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For 5 guineas a year or a single donation of 50 guineas , the allowance rose to 3 in-patients and 2 out-patients . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There are differing views about whether three years or a single year period would be better or worse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In a sense , any ethnographic study is a case-study , since all such research concentrates on a relatively small group or a single institution . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | What any of these matters have to do with intercountry trade or a single market in Europe is not readily apparent . |
| 23 | In 1859 , from the residual precession he predicted that within the orbit of Mercury there either existed several small bodies , or a single planet . |
| 24 | In the family proceedings court a justices ' clerk or a single justice may make , vary or revoke directions and may refer any matter to the full court for consideration . |
| 25 | In the foreseeable future we are unlikely to achieve an average class size of 18 , or a stable class group over the primary/secondary range , or a single class teacher linking both primary and secondary phases , or a more relaxed attitude towards assessment . |
| 26 | Untrammelled by the tyranny of one period or a single discipline , John Harwood is a designer whose work is multifarious . |
| 27 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 28 | The essence of ‘ soap ’ ( or ‘ continuing drama ’ as its creators prefer to call it ) is a tight-knit microcosm , whether the village of Ambridge , the police stations of Dock Green , Z Cars and all their descendants , the hospitals of Emergency Ward 10 and Casualty , the motel of Crossroads , or a single street — see above , plus Brookside Close . |
| 29 | Sex and the single person |
| 30 | Divorced people paying alimony will receive tax relief only on an amount equal to the difference between the married man 's allowance and the single person 's allowance . |