Example sentences of "[verb] just a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonds also have more intricate cash flow patterns than money market securities , which typically involve just a single payment at maturity . |
| 2 | The park is part of a large complex which has just a single access onto the busy main road . |
| 3 | However , it does not make just a single prediction for the universe . |
| 4 | In addition , they receive just a single rupee for collecting a kilogramme of papers and rags , while their efforts are turned into substantial profits by the recycling industries . |
| 5 | The proposal may be to replace just a single building or a row of shops , or there may be plans for a comprehensive redevelopment involving a whole block or more . |
| 6 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 7 | In this approach , a particle does not have just a single history , as it would in a classical theory . |
| 8 | The smaller bridges offered just a single plank of wood , too narrow to cycle across and too narrow to push the bike from the side . |
| 9 | Silicon-based life would have to be very different from ‘ life as we know it ’ ; to take just a single example , whereas we exhale carbon dioxide , an oxygen-oriented silicon lifeform would perforce have to exhale silicon dioxide ( silica ) — a painful experience ! |
| 10 | Even that respected organ The Practitioner , in a recent special issue ( 1983 , col 227 , No 1375 ) devoted to psychiatry and matters of the mind , had just a single word concerning this most widespread , of all medical phenomena . |
| 11 | The most critical one in some ways is a change in the structure of our lower jaw , so instead of having a lot of bones in our lower jaw we have just a single bone in our lower jaw , the dentory , which articulates with a bone called the scremosal , whereas in reptiles the quadrate and articular for the articulation and those bones have now got stuck into our inner ear and do some stuff about conducting sound impulses . |
| 12 | Most mixer taps simply use the hot and cold knobs to control flow and temperature , but some modern one-hole mixers have just a single lever which does both . |