Example sentences of "to a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 2 | They have undermined long-cherished views of the writer or artist as a unique individual creating in the image of divine creation ( in an unbroken chain that links father and son as in Michelangelo 's God reaching towards Adam in the Sistine Chapel frescoes ) , and the work of art as reducible to a single ‘ true meaning ’ … |
| 3 | As an exercise and to test my familiarity with the material , I drafted a summary of disputes procedures , both national and local , confining myself to a single sheet of A4 . |
| 4 | It is the biggest sale of pubs to a single company since the 1989 Monopolies Commission report on the brewing industry . |
| 5 | The stake was sold to a single buyer through Warburg Securities . |
| 6 | By October we find Smolensk party officials annulling a delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye still being demanded by one local authority ( some taxes in kind had been reduced from March onwards to a single uniform tax calculated in terms of rye ) . |
| 7 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 8 | Apart , they could be breathtakingly sharp on the others ' shortcomings but together their individual selves gathered into something very close to a single presence . |
| 9 | ‘ Even our most loyal customers will be limited to a single car each . ’ |
| 10 | The ‘ benefit ’ was in fact a deferred payment , which both tied a player to a single club and was of no value to those who through loss of form or injury were not able to serve the county for a long enough period . |
| 11 | There was good reason for this : when Government ministers want to test opinion in a particular sector , they normally turn to a single trade body , such as the National Farmers Union , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , or the Retail Consortium . |
| 12 | Many crops are grown from seed every year and so all the necessary genetic mutations would have to happen to a single plant within one growing season . |
| 13 | Gravitational collapse releases energy ; and collapse to a single , dimensionless point releases an infinite amount of it . |
| 14 | West Indians belong to a single post-colonial culture ; mainly black , emphatically multiracial , with politics that are on the whole admirably democratic ( the big exception , Guyana , has the worst economy too ) . |
| 15 | Formally , the road to a single energy market started with a directive last year that compelled countries to let electricity or gas pass through their grids or pipelines in transit from one neighbouring country to another . |
| 16 | Thus it was a natural step that in 1875 the Probate , Divorce , and Admiralty jurisdictions should be entrusted to a single division of the High Court . |
| 17 | It was the curtain to a single French window leading to the garden and right to the side of her chair . |
| 18 | Reluctantly , he took us to a single kennel at the back of the offices . |
| 19 | He points to a single red blossom that quivers on a nearly invisible thread attached to a garland of synthetic butterflies and rhinestone-dotted flowers — a bizarre piece of headgear so tacky it could only have been custom-made . |
| 20 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 21 | Moreover , the most impressive and unusual feature of Scottish bonding , the loyalty to a single lord which had done so much to make lordship so stabilizing a factor , was inevitably diminished . |
| 22 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 23 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 24 | Her Majesty 's Government is also involved , for it is planning to set up the BritTrak Consortium which would reduce the rail network to a single , high profit track , ‘ running from the City to a decent little pub in Chobham ’ . |
| 25 | The idea boiled down to a single word , the most potent in the language . |
| 26 | But on the plus side , there was only one channel , and the coverage was confined to a single 45-minute programme each night , called ‘ Telerevista ’ . |
| 27 | Yesterday 's result means that he will be able to take on the Euro-sceptic rump in the Tory Party and put through the legislation that could put Britain on the road to a single European currency by the late 1990s . |
| 28 | The other is to be a stepping stone to a single European currency , and it is becoming clear that Europe is not going to have one of those . |
| 29 | A flexibility in tackling problems will , however , be necessary since they are by no means amenable to a single rigid set of solutions even within the same country . |
| 30 | Alston replied to this in 1756 , his minute writing condensing to a single sheet thoughts which Miller 's careful copper-plate would stretch to three , and concluded that Edinburgh lagged behind Chelsea in some reading — he had not seen the Voyages until quite recently . |