Example sentences of "single [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The east end is apsidal with a single polygonal apse . |
| 2 | The Arch of Titus , Rome ( A.D. 81 ) is generally regarded as the finest of the extant triumphal arches , particularly of the single arched design . |
| 3 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 4 | ‘ Every single deaf woman is different , with different perceptions about what she wants while pregnant . |
| 5 | To complicate matters , it is also clear that " LE " is not a single homogenous dialect , but varies considerably — though perhaps too subtly for outsiders to notice — from district to district . |
| 6 | The only force which separates them is the Church , the one single coherent organisation in this country which binds like mortar the different races and degrees of this nation . |
| 7 | Although it would break the link between advanced and non-advanced further education , it would make it possible to ‘ develop a single coherent function for higher education outside the universities ’ . |
| 8 | We can not bring all the various statutory and common-law rules our judges enforce under a single coherent scheme of principle . |
| 9 | Knowledge was taken to be the product of an extended logical essay — the output of the repeated application in a single coherent text of the technique of examining an assertion to determine all of its implications . ’ |
| 10 | Hypermedia is software that retrieves information from a variety of different sources , stored on different media , and presents all this information as a single coherent database . |
| 11 | There is as yet no general relativistic demonstration that a collapsing and rotating supermassive object of about 100 million solar masses can survive as a single coherent entity to become a black hole . |
| 12 | Not , Robina darling , a single bloody subject . |
| 13 | You ca n't just sit there and munch their biscuits without a single bloody word ! |
| 14 | Partial sequences of several individual peptide peaks eluted from HLA-B53 ( not shown ) and a single complete sequence from the largest individual peak , YPAEITLYW , all showed proline at position 2 . |
| 15 | By skilful use of reversions the Osborne family controlled the office of Treasurer 's Remembrancer from 1552 to 1674 , with only a single complete break , while the Fanshawes established a hereditary regime in the post of King 's Remembrancer from 1561 to 1675 with only brief appearances from other families . |
| 16 | The new Commonwealth was not a state , but it would nonetheless provide for unitary control of nuclear arms , a single currency and a ‘ single economic space ’ . |
| 17 | Relations among the members of the Commonwealth were to be conducted on a multilateral basis , but it was agreed to endorse the principle of unitary control of strategic nuclear arms and the concept of a ‘ single economic space ’ . |
| 18 | They signed a declaration which ( i ) stated that the CIS was open to all former Soviet states and any other countries which shared its objectives ; ( ii ) stated that strategic forces would remain under unified control ; ( iii ) confirmed co-operation on a single economic space ; and ( iv ) stated that member states of the CIS undertook to honour the international obligations of the former Soviet Union . |
| 19 | The leaders of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan had on Aug. 20 held negotiations with Kazakh President Nazarbayev on " preserving a single economic space " . |
| 20 | ‘ There is n't a single economic indicator which suggests that a recovery is on the way . |
| 21 | The reason why it is considered so important that we should not make a commitment at this stage to join a single currency is that a single currency would involve not only a single central bank but single economic management and a commitment by the Government and people of this country to subsidise , if necessary , the trade deficit of Italy , the budget deficits of other countries and the different standards of living . |
| 22 | It was an indication of the great difficulty the European idea would have in achieving concerted action in even a single economic sector , and suggested that the recently established and broader European Economic Community of 1957 would not find it easy to secure its broad objectives of common policies and a common market . |
| 23 | If a single economic statistic can be blamed for the recent slide towards panic it is the balance of payments figures . |
| 24 | We have , as a nation , lost all sense of proportion during the past 13 years , as government policy has been determined by the worship of a single economic icon : the conquest of what the Daily Telegraph , in a telling editorial comment , described as ‘ the one absolute evil ’ — inflation . |
| 25 | In a few years time the two German states could be virtually a single economic area . |
| 26 | No single economic model can encompass all the West-Pacific NIC policies from Hong Kong 's free market approach to South Korea 's planned industrial strategy . |
| 27 | The single market legislation envisaged by the White Paper is the specific expression and implementation of the fundamental principle enshrined in the EEC Treaty that goods , services , capital and people should circulate freely throughout a single economic Community . |
| 28 | Other resolutions included : the adoption of a Common Resident Card for all citizens and measures to facilitate travel and residence rights and the movement of goods by road within the community ; the establishment of a Standing Mediation Committee in response to the conflicts between member states ; the eventual establishment of a single economic community in West Africa ; the approval of a new assessment of members ' contributions to the budget — once again , non-payment of contributions had been a contentious issue ; and agreement to ratify all protocols by Dec. 31 , 1990 . |
| 29 | In future there would be ( i ) one political department covering Africa , Asia and the Middle East — headed by James Jonah ( Sierra Leone ) ; ( ii ) one political department covering Europe , Latin America , disarmament , the General Assembly and the Security Council — headed by Vladimir Petrovsky ( a former Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister ) ; ( iii ) peacekeeping operations — headed by Marrack Goulding ( United Kingdom ) ; ( iv ) a single economic department — headed by Ji Chaozhu ( China ) ; ( v ) legal affairs — headed by Carl-August Fleischhauer ( Germany ) ; ( vi ) disaster relief — headed by Jan Eliasson ( Sweden ) ; ( vii ) information — headed by Eugeniusz Wyzner ( Poland ) , and ( viii ) administration and budget — headed by Dick Thornburgh ( a former US Attorney General ) . |
| 30 | In the debate on the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , he gave what was in effect one of the best arguments against a single economic authority that I have heard in Parliament . |