Example sentences of "[adv] by a single [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Society comes to resemble ‘ a constellation of governments , rather than an association of individuals held together by a single government ’ .
2 As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand .
3 It is obvious that if the present decision is undisturbed attention must be paid to the quite new arrangements prescribed by section 19(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 which provides , so far as is relevant , that any jurisdiction of the High Court shall be exercised only by a single judge of that court , except in so far as it is , by or by virtue of rules of court or any other statutory provision , required to be exercised by a divisional court .
4 The gentleman nodded briefly , and , as the landlord left , stepped into the dimness of a dark room lit only by a single candle on the mantel above the hearth , and the glowing embers of a dying fire below .
5 Finally , he reached an evil , narrow street lit only by a single lamp .
6 We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ?
7 Eventually , they came to a large set of steel doors , watched over by a single guard .
8 For the first three centuries of its existence , until 751 , it was ruled over by a single family , that of the Merovingians .
9 An exactly analogous state of affairs occurs in the use of the Debye model in dielectric theory ( see , for example , Frölich ( 1958 ) or Daniel ( 1967 ) ) where the behaviour of a dielectric can not be represented exactly by a single relaxation time model .
10 I recently met Mrs Kjaersgaard in London to discuss our common objective to forge a link between parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united not by a single government but with a free market .
11 They could be lost for ever by a single failure of vigilance .
12 By the same reasoning we must conclude that K could plausibly have arisen , directly by a single change , from something slightly different again , which we may call K " .
13 A macro facility allows them to be stored and issued automatically by a single keystroke .
14 Commonly used components such as instruments , machine tools , rivets , nuts and bolts , instead of being produced efficiently by a single supplier are manufactured by all branches of defence industry ; missile electronics , for example , are produced by the Ministry of General Machine Building .
15 If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence .
16 No search should ever be carried out by a single individual .
17 In the family proceedings court certain procedural functions may be carried out by a single justice or in certain circumstances a justices ' clerk ( see Chapter 4 , 1 ) .
18 The appeal court decided that the case should be heard tomorrow by a single judge .
19 I am determined to go to Scotland , though unaccompanied even by a single company of soldiers .
20 To another correspondent he wrote , in a letter clearly corrected since , ‘ I am determined to go to Scotland , though unaccompanied even by a single company of soldiers . ’
21 Relatively unimportant as these smaller losses may seem compared with the main one , together they may add up to a total picture of her life which she feels has been shattered overnight by a single blow .
22 A thin disdainful blonde girl led me up narrow stairs to a room filled completely by a single bed .
23 It can be described briefly by a single word — complicated .
24 Where there is a monominerallic , or near-monominerallic , precursor fabric , as in carbonates and evaporites , replacement is commonly by a single mineral .
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