Example sentences of "where [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 . |