Example sentences of "[subord] [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To remove nut from shank the shank-to-nut state must be progressively changed from a three-zone state , through two , down to one , where the single state has two zeros and one non-zero ( this space is the mirror of the head space ) . |
| 2 | As all water contains some ‘ heavy hydrogen ’ ( deuterium ) , where the single proton of the conventional hydrogen nucleus is accompanied by a neutron , there should be some deuterium produced at the cathode too . |
| 3 | ‘ We must return to multiplicity , where the single nation state is no longer supreme . ’ |
| 4 | The only music which is really non-tonal is that based on chromatic clusters of semitones ( or even smaller intervals ) , where no single tone can predominate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is particularly necessary where a single person is responsible for several languages . |
| 9 | The simplest example is muonic hydrogen , where a single muon encircles a proton . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The newest of the four is the Dom Hotel ( 20980 e ; 3926668 w ) , where a single room is Dm215–295 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral . |
| 17 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |
| 18 | The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations for 1904 lists ‘ Stretford Bridge Junction Station ’ , suggesting something rather more grand than the single platform , without even a name board , that represented the sole facility for passengers here . |
| 19 | The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence . |
| 20 | It should be noted that these drag coefficients are for Clios with door mirror on both sides — rather than the single door mirror used by certain other companies to produce flattering windtunnel figures . |
| 21 | Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests . |
| 22 | It would be easy to climb ; easier than the single rope that had got her here . |
| 23 | For example , a family of four occupying a semi-detached house may consume more local services than the single occupier next door , but would still pay the same rates . |
| 24 | Although this Arrowana is relatively cheap when young , I would not recommend more than the single specimen in an aquarium of this size . |
| 25 | As the restrictions arise in a two-equation model ( rather than the single equation we considered before ) , we now require a method of summarizing the variation in both equation errors so that we can compare an unrestricted with a restricted model . |
| 26 | Just as small groups of documents are often far more useful to the history teacher than the single source , so artefacts often yield their greatest potential when grouped together . |
| 27 | Indeed what evidence there was at that time , for instance from a number of reading surveys , suggested the maintenance or improvement of attainment , although the single exception provoked more media interest . |
| 28 | Although the single currency and the new powers for the European Parliament continue to grab the headlines , they are not the only issues to be hammered out at Maastricht next week . |
| 29 | Although the single report does conceal some of the rich diversity of opinion on complex or controversial issues , it provides for outsiders a more usable tool than a long debate . |
| 30 | If the inherent friction torque of the system can be neglected the equation for the rotor position relative to equilibrium ( 4.3 ) is modified by the damper torque : So the single step response of a system with a VCID is third-order , compared to the second-order Eqn . |