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

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1 These observations also suggest that a single endonuclease molecule is responsible for the 50% cleavage of the circular DNA .
2 The Department has published the results of trials which suggest that a single hectare of coppice can provide up to 15 tonnes of fuelwood every year — sufficient to heat a large farmhouse .
3 But I urge him to accept that a single currency , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) made clear the other day , means a massive transfer of political and economic power to the centre .
4 These days , most women 's lives are so varied that no single scent will take us from gym to office , from desk to dinner — let alone dawn till dusk .
5 We firmly expect that the single market will benefit all English regions .
6 In his private practice he had adults in psychoanalysis and some children too , though with children he now concentrated more on the ‘ therapeutic consultation ’ , where he found that a single interview could at times unhitch a developmental hold-up .
7 On Loughrigg Fell , for example , near Grasmere , just one Lakeland fell out of more than 200 detailed with loving care in the guides , he found that every single access point mentioned had changed significantly .
8 I do not think this difficulty is insuperable , particularly if one accepts that a single gene mutation could have a large effect in fitting an organism to a new environment .
9 For branching trails [ 18 ] , it is necessary to introduce the involuted relationship cites to indicate that a single path item can branch to many other path items during navigation through the user backtracking .
10 Whenever possible , information will be collected from more than one source , eg from both town council and church accounts , to try to discover if a single labour market operated in a town .
11 The classic statement ‘ What did I do to deserve this ? ’ has but a single answer : Nothing !
12 I do not think that a single critic noticed that it was any different from the customary ‘ rum-te-tum ’ , but if one of them did he evidently did n't think it was worth a comment .
13 ‘ I do not think that a single relative should ever have the sole care of senile dependent .
14 At a moment like this , one might think that the single market should dominate the Community thinking , but that is not so .
15 The committee agreed that a single system was desirable , and suggested ways in which it could be implemented without excessive financial or administrative difficulty .
16 However , in this case , only one slower-migrating species is observed , suggesting that a single phosphorylation event might be taking place .
17 Nevertheless , since many astrologers seem to agree that a single phase of the spring moon is the most auspicious of the year , it is quite a normal occurrence for half the year 's weddings to take place within the space of a single fortnight around Holi , the spring festival .
18 Although the story of Croton 's lost Helen admitted that no single girl of the southern peninsula in those days was entirely beautiful enough , it was still recalled by the attending spectators at the Sunday promenade , by the old men and women no longer in the marriage stakes , by the servants whom custom forbade from parading — as if the cost of new or spruced-up clothes did not make it impossible for them to take part anyway .
19 Fourthly , the growing awareness of the complexity of children 's problems , coupled with an ecological perspective that views them as part of an extended family and local community with its own history and culture , mean that no single person or agency will be able to provide all the necessary services .
20 Large wiggles mean that a single radiocarbon result can correspond to more than one calendar result ( see fig. 7.8 ) ; distinguishing between the different calendar possibilities can not then be achieved by radiocarbon alone .
21 The case for R&D agreements is partly that they avoid wasteful duplication of research , and allow complementary skills and risks to be pooled , but mainly that they internalize the information spillovers which mean that a single firm is unable to appropriate all the returns to its R&D efforts .
22 Then you must ensure that a single block is n't orphaned and unable to be matched .
23 Well John was saying to me , that eh , Bill is such a perfectionist that although he 's done good works already , he will ensure that every single corner of that house will be immaculate and exactly the way he wants it , but it 'll take him three or four years to do it .
24 In a written response to the government 's proposals for an environment agency , the NRA says that a single agency would be a ‘ one-stop shop ’ for industry when dealing with monitoring , regulation and enforcement and charging policies .
25 It assumes that a single factor can be found that correlates closely with demand .
26 It is also important to remember that a single impairment may give rise to numerous disabilities .
27 Mr Large himself is impressed by the SEC , though he warns that a single regulator could be a bureaucratic juggernaut .
28 We have seen that a single flip-flop can remember one binary digit .
29 The EC Commission for its part threw into the discussion the now celebrated Cockfield Report3 which detailed the host of measures which would have to be adopted before a single market could be said to exist .
30 The disorganized and diverse activity that precedes the formation of a science eventually becomes structured and directed when a single paradigm becomes adhered to by a scientific community .
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