Example sentences of "[prep] a single [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What were you after a single bed or a double bed ? |
| 2 | But though composed in ignorance of rival works , many of these writings were seen at the time , naturally and unhesitatingly , as the product of a single mood and of a single set of mind . |
| 3 | It seemed unlikely that he could be as devastated by the death of a single patient as Julia had made out in her letters , but then she had never really understood him . |
| 4 | Soon he saw that his way of presenting the threat in terms of a single territory that should not be torn apart was not understood by the people . |
| 5 | On the right hon. Gentleman 's first point , convergence is not just important ; it is absolutely vital if there is to be any success whatsoever , or any prospect of a single currency that would not damage the whole of Europe . |
| 6 | If we are outside , we shall not enjoy the advantages of a single currency or have the investment in this country of those companies — our own and overseas firms — which want to invest in the core of Europe and enjoy full access to all that goes on in Europe . |
| 7 | The UK nevertheless intended to submit its own proposed amendments in January 1991 ( on the basis of Major 's June proposals for a parallel " hard ecu " — see p. 37521 ) , prompting European Commission President Jacques Delors to warn on Dec. 15 of a political crisis if the UK tried to stall over the issues of a single currency and a central bank . |
| 8 | The question , it was widely remarked , embraced a number of different propositions : some voters might be in favour of the maintenance of a single state but not necessarily a socialist one , and there was little guidance — apart from the draft union treaty — about the nature of a ‘ renewed federation ’ . |
| 9 | In the USA it is estimated that about 80 per cent of collective agreements are confined to employees of a single company and about two-thirds are limited to a single plant ( Cohen , 1975 ) . |
| 10 | Schematic representation of a single strand and double strand melting transition : ( A ) stacking of an A base on an ( A ) n single strand helix , and ( B ) stacking of an ( A-U ) base pair on an ( A-U ) n helix . |
| 11 | In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past . |
| 12 | Most of their examples show the activation of a single word or a short phrase . |
| 13 | One type of context consisted of a single word and the other of a sentence . |
| 14 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |
| 15 | By contrast , the decision to impose conditions is taken by the policeman , and it may be that the courts will not defer so readily to the judgment of a single person as to what the scope of his powers actually is . |
| 16 | Mostly they are of a single sentence or paragraph . |
| 17 | New proposals were said to encompass a truce , multiparty elections , the creation of a single army and the holding of a seventh round of negotiations at the end of March . |
| 18 | While the Grand Challenge Cup remains the blue riband open event , the Ladies ' Plate reverts to its 1984 qualification , being open to student clubs , with composite crews only admitted from colleges of a single university or two or more schools , and entries being cut from 32 to 16 . |
| 19 | In addition to the audit of a single building or a whole portfolio of buildings there has also been an increase in demand for the ‘ space audit ’ , usually from office tenants . |
| 20 | It is arguable that biological , economic and sociological studies might be more effectively and productively pursued and co-ordinated under the aegis of a single organisation but this view has not prevailed in Great Britain . |
| 21 | As with mangrove forests , they do not consist of a single species that happens to have exploited a particular niche , but of a whole group of species , not necessarily related to each other , each of which is adapted to the rich pickings . |
| 22 | She was reluctant , given her ‘ more than competent fortune ’ , to give up ‘ that happy and free condition ’ of a single life and suffered a collapse on her wedding day . |
| 23 | Indeed , the author recalls at the EPP Conference he attended in the Reichstag in Berlin before the last European elections , a leading German politician advocating a federal Europe in vivid emotional terms : ‘ My heart rages with passion at the thought of a Single Government and a Single Parliament ’ . |
| 24 | Instead , the worksheet consists of a single column and row . |
| 25 | Too many assumptions about bureaucratic behaviour have been derived from observations of a single organization and specific time periods : Niskanen and the US Department of Defence ; Tullock and departments of foreign affairs ; ‘ Leviathan ’ models of the 1965–75 growth years , and so on . |
| 26 | The Judaeo-Christian influence introduced the notions of a single God and of man 's equality in the eyes of that God . |
| 27 | The caterwauling of an aggressive cat is a perfect example of a single signal that takes many different forms . |
| 28 | This form is to be completed if the transfer of a single entry or the transfer of a range of entries from/to the working set to/from the table of origin is required . |
| 29 | Leigh concluded that the brooches he considered were the products of a single workshop although there may , yet , be other reasons for the degrees of similarity he observed ; it is these which are actually being assessed , not whether or not they originated from one workshop . |
| 30 | It is sensitive enough to detect the presence of a single microbe and can discriminate between live and dead organisms in a matter of 10–15 minutes . |