Example sentences of "[verb] for a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still have grave doubts as to whether it is right to go for a single currency , fixed exchange rates and the whole of that considerable abdication of political sovereignty . |
| 2 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 3 | Search can also be used to search for a single word or a string of words and letters . |
| 4 | What was previously assumed to be given for a single capital now needs to be explained . |
| 5 | The quantities for most of the meals on the following pages are given for a single portion . |
| 6 | Both legal literature and the documentary evidence attest the use of what can be called trust clauses , as well as the practice of using for a single disposition the wording of both legacy and trust . |
| 7 | Thirdly , any expansion of the EC to embrace some Eastern European countries a strain would be placed upon an adjustment mechanism intended for a single country . |
| 8 | Many agree however that to maintain that the Report argued for a single worker appropriate to all situations is false , and would endorse Hey in her suggestion that generalist , even general purpose , may be the more appropriate term for the individual the Committee envisaged . |
| 9 | Mr Lang had lunch with senior Highland Region councillors , who afterwards argued for a single Highland authority based on the region to replace the current system . |
| 10 | The quickest way to revive the principle that privilege was indivisible from responsibility was to build a Gothic house designed for a single household , not , like Palladian houses , for two separate communities . |
| 11 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 12 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 13 | His news was too important , too wonderful to be contained for a single instant longer . |
| 14 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 15 | New work patterns , such a partial shifts , mean that senior house officers are less likely to work for a single consultant and also make it more difficult for all junior doctors to attend teaching sessions at set times . |
| 16 | It is rather like looking for a single straw in a haystack . |
| 17 | The figures are costed for a single person . |
| 18 | Of course very few machines are used for a single application and in practice you need to balance the requirements of each application that you want to run . |
| 19 | One interpretation will make this equivalent to something like the statement that Joseph painted that member of the group of generals who is , or was , not standing ; in this case it is indeed a postnominal attributive adjective joined with its noun in a single noun phrase , used for a single entity-identification . |
| 20 | In particular , when de-activation occurs on the basis of contextual mismatches , less sensory information is therefore needed for a single word candidate to emerge . |
| 21 | The resource loading can be shown for a single assignment or the entire plan , with actuals , plans and overloads by time period . |
| 22 | This wo n't work for a single motif , but how about a single motif in black , knitted against a striped background of bright jewel colours , or white on pastel stripes ? ( for this , the card does n't need to be reversed of course . ) |
| 23 | Mm detailed plans have been approved for a single storey dwelling in the garden on one of the houses condition on the surgery reverting to living accommodation , the houses would have considerable scope for use as offices subject to planning or paramedical use especially where large car parking areas are required , the whole is available at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds , but offers may be considered for number twenty five with the garden and parking area building plots to the agent |
| 24 | Speaking to the rally , Leopold Gnininvi , secretary-general of the Democratic Convention of African Peoples ( CDPA ) , called for a single opposition candidate in the presidential elections . |
| 25 | Only in the case of engagements lasting for a single day or less , and involving people with whom the organisation does not expect to have further contact in the near future , might payment be made without any deductions . |
| 26 | A DEC spokesman explained Jenkins ' appointment by saying that , although the company will continue to support such non-standards as SCO Unix , it is striving for a single Unix thread built around OSF/1 . |
| 27 | For example , a number of humanities courses allow the student to postpone a decision to opt for a single subject or interdisciplinary course , or a major , joint or minor programme until the beginning of the second year . |
| 28 | The Samaritans ' report was praised for a single telephone conversation which ran through the right-hand pages of the report , thereby encouraging readers to finish it |
| 29 | He opts for a single fragment of European culture and , by way of compensation , he must at once reaffirm that ideal of personal and cultural wholeness which on various grounds he now sees immediately symbolized in Schopenhauer — and not least because Schopenhauer , for all his scorn of the contemporary world , unquestionably belongs to it . |
| 30 | Rules which allow for a single symbol at a time to be written or replaced by another symbol or string of symbols ( eg T , N ) are known as " phrase-structures rules ' . |