Example sentences of "[det] [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single instance of B , and of B on its own , can not enable us to associate it with A. The universe as a whole , however , is just such a single instance : we have no direct experience either of other worlds or of world-designers . |
| 2 | If , however , the company creates £1m of debenture stock it can issue it ; to subscribers in such amounts as each wants , giving each a single certificate and he can sell and transfer any fraction of it . |
| 3 | In Afghanistan the stalemate between the superpowers has ensured that no single authority rules . |
| 4 | So loud are these calls that a single insect can be heard half a kilometre away and a chorus of them can set a whole forest ringing and echoing . |
| 5 | Yet I have known students to suppose that this is all a single problem , to be disposed of in a single breath . |
| 6 | Extraordinary in Yorkshire , where the most profound emotion slowly worked up and out , tightly wrapped into the cold air , channelled through flat vowels , into a word or at most a single sentence , while all the rest was conveyed only with the slightest movement of the body . |