Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Parliament was required to choose between the two leading candidates after no single candidate had won an absolute majority of the popular vote in the presidential elections in September [ see pp. 39110-11 ] .
3 A run-off election was scheduled to decide the gubernatorial contest in Arizona as no single candidate received more than 50 per cent of the vote .
4 Therefore , if a low potency is being used , it may be necessary to administer repeated doses to achieve the same effect as a single dose of a higher potency .
5 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 .
6 It is more a range than a single mountain , having nine peaks linked by the graceful curves of supporting ridges .
7 Double glazing gives a higher degree of security than a single pane of glass , but is of course more expensive .
8 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 .
9 There is no reason to postpone enlargement of the Community until the Single Market is completed .
10 Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its supercomputer family by the second half of 1994 .
11 Pricing for the two-processor EL98 begins at $340,000 , the same price as the single processor Y-MP EL , and can be expanded to eight processors ; existing Y-MP ELs can be upgraded to the new version ; Cray says that it has taken five orders for the new machines , and expects to introduce the next generation of its super computer family by the second half of 1994 .
12 The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association .
13 There is profound and deep argument of course that that is no more representative or true of democracy than a single member constituency .
14 Because they cover a wide range of responsibilities — about assessment , financial management , curriculum balance and accountability — the manager provides a better service to his or her partners if a single interpretation is provided and if disparate demands can be connected by a common thread .
15 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 .
16 The West German Chancellor also fell into line with his French allies by agreeing that the Community should try to be ready to implement the economic union when the single market came fully into operation on January 1 , 1993 .
17 We have shown that a single measurement of height is of greater value in identifying disease in short children than a single measurement of velocity over 12 months .
18 It was apparent to me that a great deal more useful information could be derived from the FDR if the single parameter of pitch attitude could be added to the requirements , and I pressed this view very hard with the authorities when they drew up the UK regulations on the subject in 1964 .
19 It is , of course , largely for that economic reason that convergence of the economies before a single currency becomes operative is absolutely essential .
20 There is no such thing as a single millionaire .
21 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 .
22 In the great tit , then , males sing to keep intruders out of their territories , and a repertory of songs is a more effective deterrent than a single song .
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 Today 's numbers are the first to include statistics on trade with the EC since the single market came into force at the start of the year .
25 Yesterday 's figures are the first to include statistics on trade with the EC since the single market came into force at the start of the year .
26 This word-superiority effect is clearly important for models of word recognition : any model would have to offer an account of why , even though a word target has four times as many letters as a single letter target , the word is easier to perceive .
27 Several candidates spoke of the need for a coalition , and senior FNLA officials said that their party would be likely to form an alliance with other parties , including the MPLA , in a possible run-off if no single candidate won outright in the first round .
28 Ministers failed to agree on implementing measures which would allow the free movement of people within the EC to come into force on Jan. 1 , 1993 , at the same time as the single market in goods and services .
29 The weapon carries three separate thermonuclear warheads , each with about the same power as the single warhead in a cruise missile ( 150–200 kilotons ) .
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