Example sentences of "as [art] single " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister 's supporters were immediately thrown onto the defensive since most Conservative MPs saw the tax as the single biggest obstacle to a Conservative victory at the next election . |
| 2 | Imaging their amazement as the single peach on the tree grows to enormous proportions and James climbs aboard for the journey of a lifetime . |
| 3 | ( 11.5 ) With this , the line element ( 11.4 ) can be written in the form ( 11.6 ) and the two main equations ( 6.22d , e ) can be written as the single complex equation ( 11.7 ) It may be seen that this is in fact Ernst 's equation , which can be written in the coordinate-invariant form ( 11.8 ) where is the square of the gradient of an arbitrary scalar field which , in this case , is a function of the two ( null ) coordinates only . |
| 4 | If we fail to see any need to offer sound moral justifications for treating sentient creatures as mere ‘ commodities ’ , ‘ preparations ’ , ‘ models ’ , or research ‘ tools ’ , then we surely deny that very rationality which we cite as the single quality which elevates humans so far above the other animals . |
| 5 | The ‘ co-decision ’ procedure applies to areas of law such as the single market , consumer protection , the free movement of labour and the right of individuals and companies to establish themselves in other member states . |
| 6 | This is logical also on the grounds that the remedies were proved as the single remedy and not as mixtures , and mixtures of remedies may have effects which are different from those of their component parts . |
| 7 | In practice , low potencies are usually prescribed over a period of time , whereas high potencies are classically administered as the single dose . |
| 8 | If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision . |
| 9 | Best himself seems to have few doubts as to why he got the nod , citing the growing importance of the Divisional Championship as the single most important factor in his — and England 's — meteoric rise . |
| 10 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 11 | For example , the home situation may be seen as the single most important factor ‘ causing ’ the child 's behaviour problems . |
| 12 | So as long as gender and race can be satisfactorily subordinated to class then Marxism does not need refuting , and history can be reasserted as the single narrative of the Third International . |
| 13 | While the vast majority of those in work claim the relevant personal allowances — such as the single person 's or the married man 's tax allowance — even these are of most value to high earners who are able to set the allowances against the top rate of tax for which they are liable . |
| 14 | In his analysis Atkin ( 1979 ) points to the ‘ fragmentation of community ’ as the single most important factor feeding accountability pressures in the USA . |
| 15 | This short Act amounts to the United Kingdom 's formal approval of the agreement concluded by the heads of government of the Community countries in 1986 and known as the Single European Act , which makes important changes to the Treaty of Rome . |
| 16 | If the questions that come to PFK are any indication , compatibility problems with marine fish must rate as the single most difficult area to master and overcome . |
| 17 | As also has been found for the other two scales , however , the inner city problem has become much more evident over the past decade since the deteriorating situation prompted central government to introduce more comprehensive powers in the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , to the extent that it was identified by the Prime Minister as the single most important challenge for the new Parliament after the 1987 General Election . |
| 18 | ‘ Sovereignty ’ is a word open to misunderstanding and one that is used in the sphere of international law ( for example , the dispute with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands ) , and also in the political arena ( for example , in the debates on the United Kingdom 's membership of the European Community and on subsequent issues such as the Single European Act 1986 and European Monetary Union , there was considerable rhetoric on sovereignty ) . |
| 19 | ‘ In addition , the performance of the Ladybird Disney range must rate as the single most dramatic development in children 's book retailing over the past 12 months . ’ |
| 20 | Coenwulf now wanted London to supersede both Lichfield and Canterbury as the single metropolitan see of the southern province in accordance with the plan of Pope Gregory I , and was therefore concerned to minimize any argument for more than one archbishopric based on territorial extent ; Pope Leo , on the other hand , was anxious to disassociate the papacy and his predecessor , Hadrian I , from complicity with Offa in acting against Canterbury for so base a reason as Offa 's antagonism to the people of Kent . |
| 21 | Establishing a ‘ lead agency ’ as the single source of funding for the social care for elderly people is designed to act as a financial incentive for the social services department to develop alternative and less expensive community care options . |
| 22 | The Treaty of Rome indeed differs from other international treaties in this important respect : it requires that its provisions , and those made by amendments to it ( such as the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty ) , as well as all the regulations issued by the institutions which it establishes , be incorporated directly into the legal systems of the Member States . |
| 23 | During the second half of 1989 the European Communities ( EC ) made significant progress in their efforts to attain a single internal market for goods and services by Dec. 31 , 1992 , as agreed in principle in December 1985 ( see p. 34107 ) with effect from July 1987 as the Single European Act ( see pp. 34889 ; 35534 ; for resulting Community legislation see pp. 34625-26 ; 34885 ; 35533-35 ; 35912 ; 36152-54 ; 36306 ; 36493-94 ; p. 37131 ) . |
| 24 | as the single accomplished aggregate |
| 25 | Both exchanges are looking ahead to increased used of ECU debt instruments as the single European financial space becomes a reality . |
| 26 | Nearly 1,000 of the world 's 9,700 bird species are threatened with extinction , with the destruction of habitats being regarded as the single most serious threat to their survival ; 43 per cent of the threatened birds live in tropical forests , for example . |
| 27 | Another dimension , or at least our world as a single dimension among many , he wrote . |
| 28 | These grow naturally as a single , vertical stem and need absolutely no pruning . |
| 29 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 30 | In fact , the idea lends itself to fabrication as a single IC- clock distribution is not much of a problem , because of the insensitivity to DC level , and transistor count is low , because each of the switches is formed by a single igfet , rather than , for instance , several mesfets . |