Example sentences of "not [prep] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the inglorious fall of his Government , accompanied as it was by a whole series of faux pas , Ramsay MacDonald 's future , crowed the wiseacres of London , was not worth a single cent . |
| 2 | Now , it was responding to what de Gaulle had called the solemn pact which was at the moment being sealed ‘ in the suffering of all and the blood of the soldiers ’ between France and the peoples of the Indochinese Union and to his belief that ‘ not for a single hour did France lose the hope and the will to recover free Indo-China ’ . |
| 3 | We 've never , no , not for a single day , |
| 4 | Not for a single moment . |
| 5 | ‘ Not for a single moment would one want those days to return . |
| 6 | The first is that there can not be a ‘ gene for altruistic behaviour ’ , because such behaviour would require the action of genes at many loci , and also a host of environmental preconditions ; behaviour is a product of the whole organism , not of a single gene . |
| 7 | As the importance of caring for carers has become more widely recognised , so too has the realisation that making better support for carers a reality is the responsibility not of a single agency but of many . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the twentieth century may be regarded from one aspect as the culminating stage in a process whereby the world has been transformed , not into a single political system , but into a single political arena in which there are no longer isolated and autonomous units , but all states and political movements are enmeshed in global politics within which they exhibit varying degrees of dependence or independence . |
| 9 | This comes in two forms , that used here being the SADS-L , or Lifetime Version , which enables the assessment to be based , not on a single episode of illness , but on accumulated information about the person , covering the longer time periods over which our subjects could be studied . |
| 10 | The bees work , not on a single cell at a time , but on whole sections of the comb . |
| 11 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 12 | The difficulty with such ‘ sympatric ’ speciation is that species differ , not at a single gene locus , but by many genes ; it is hard to see how such a difference could build up if sexual crossing was continuously breaking it down again . |
| 13 | As with other aspects of the landscape , it was the slow , largely undocumented social and economic changes that spelt the death of such settlements , not at a single stroke but over a long period . |
| 14 | I recently met Mrs Kjaersgaard in London to discuss our common objective to forge a link between parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united not by a single government but with a free market . |