Example sentences of "[conj] not [art] single [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not a single document had yet been approved , he hoped all would be over by Christmas 1963 , the 400th anniversary of the Council of Trent . |
| 2 | As the years passed , telephone , telex , facsimile and computer data traffic all came under this original warrant , so that not a single communication enters or leaves Britain without being subject to interception by GCCS 's successor , GCHQ . |
| 3 | Is the Minister satisfied that not a single case was substantiated by the independent Police Complaints Commission , or does he share the scepticism of Lord Colville and others , who feel that nought out of 726 does not reflect the world that we in Northern Ireland inhabit ? |
| 4 | I 'm very pleased that not a single motorist follows his advice , since if they did the old Hebridean tradition of driving on to the moors would spread to the mainland . |
| 5 | A spokeswomen at the Museum told Pilot that not a single aeroplane had escaped destruction or serious damage , including Weeks ' Solution aerobatic biplane , in which he competed at the World Aerobatic Championships at Le Havre in July . |
| 6 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 7 | On one occasion a professor became aware when lecturing that not a single eye was raised from the all consuming task of rapid squiggling . |
| 8 | Imagine his surprise , therefore , when he discovered that not a single German he met had ever been in the Nazi Party , let alone had even heard of a concentration camp . |
| 9 | Few Ajdabiyans had been expropriated by late 1979 , and not a single Kufran — although many men had transferred property titles to close family members in the months of discussion preceding the publication of measures against landlordism . |
| 10 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 11 | And not a single frog 's leg will be hopping into Bettabuys ' frozen food section . |
| 12 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 13 | A wilderness which gradually widened until not a single shrub of hope was left . |
| 14 | True the bulldozers had levelled the old town , but not a single foundation or main drain was , as yet , in place . |
| 15 | Recent data for example , from two hospitals in India , where amniocentesis was used to diagnose the sex of the foetus before birth , showed that ninety five point five percent of all female foetuses were aborted , but not a single male was aborted even though the amniocentesis showed that some of the males were genetically defective . |
| 16 | Surprisingly the binding was competed by both single strands of the probe ( WT SSA and WT SSB ) but not a single strand from the non specific oligonucleotide ( NS SS ) . |
| 17 | There is a fashionable picture , but not a single word . |
| 18 | He saw many seagulls but not a single bluebird , and could not be persuaded to approach the edge to have his picture taken . |
| 19 | Two hours later , my foreboding proved right : we saw reindeer , as well as some glaucous gulls and eiders , but not a single fox showed itself . |
| 20 | If the purpose of the statement is , as the Secretary of State says , to protect individuals against the abuse of industrial power , why does it contain scores of rights exercisable against trade unions , but not a single right to a British employee , male or female , exercisable for fair treatment by the employer at the workplace ? |
| 21 | During a time of harsh military discipline , when drum-head courts , public floggings and hangings were carried out to ‘ encourage the rest ’ , the 93rd were excused from attendance at show-piece parades ; because not a single member of their regiment was ever punished . |
| 22 | Dealing with wireless every day , Joe rarely listened when off duty to accounts of small successes put over in the announcer 's authoritative tone and the defeats intoned as if reporting a death : which it was , though not a single death , such as when Tobruk had fallen in June and Mussolini went into Libya . |
| 23 | ‘ The figures of the heads are beautifully done , ’ noted Selby , ‘ [ and ] are quite sufficient to identify the species , [ but ] I wish he had added a little more to the letter press as not a single word is said about habits , a description of the plumage alone being given . ’ |
| 24 | Now , I served on the island many years later and became friendly with a host of people , and I personally researched a great deal on our raid when not a single bomb fell on the seaplane base . |