Example sentences of "as a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would cut off her right arm and give it to him if he came over with as much as a single bag . |
| 2 | Along with the established azodye processes , the company also produces intermediates using nitration , sulphonation , chlorination , oxidation , amination and catalytic reactions and as such CAC can not be described as a single technology company . |
| 3 | It starts from scratch , as a single cell , and grows a new heart , using the same design program as its parent 's heart , to which improvements may be added . |
| 4 | Such difficulties of interpretation as the modern local historian may encounter are not , however , confined to this class of writing alone , as a single example taken from the sixteenth century will illustrate . |
| 5 | Musically this is very nearly correct , but not one recording includes so much as a single word of Gilbert 's spoken dialogue . |
| 6 | The genetic material may be as small as a single gene , while some protein coats are made of multiple copies of only one specific protein molecule . |
| 7 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 8 | If , as its Members will , it seeks to bring about such change , it must rely upon other agencies if it is to shift the location of so much as a single molecule . |
| 9 | Therefore , if a low potency is being used , it may be necessary to administer repeated doses to achieve the same effect as a single dose of a higher potency . |
| 10 | Our preference is to have the lines so matched that , when the two handles are held together , the stunt kite soars overhead and is as stable as a single line kite . |
| 11 | However , a single molecule of starch , consisting of many glucose units joined together , has the same osmotic effect as a single isolated glucose molecule . |
| 12 | If a really soft fabric is required , the backing yarn can be as fine as a single strand of 2/30 . |
| 13 | The French Dragoons crossed the frontier with drawn swords , but the weapons served no purpose other than to dignify the moment with a suitable melodrama , for there was not so much as a single Dutch customs officer to oppose the invasion . |
| 14 | Indeed , if the state can be thought of as acting as a single shareholder then it will be in a more powerful position vis-a-vis management than are shareholders of most private companies . |
| 15 | This term was first used in a speech in Prague in April 1987 which recognised Europe , despite its deep ideological rift , as a single cultural and historical entity ‘ from the Atlantic to the Urals ’ , a phrase which echoed de Gaulle 's vision of the 1960s . |
| 16 | The problem is to detect as little as a single base pair difference between , say , two 500 base pair fragments . |
| 17 | ‘ Bill Mishkin 's just made New Canaan , Connecticut , March 1 to April 14 , without so much as a single shooting , beating , or naked buttock from one end to the other ! |
| 18 | High-bay warehouses , as a single volume , can normally be considered as being single storey buildings . |
| 19 | This word-superiority effect is clearly important for models of word recognition : any model would have to offer an account of why , even though a word target has four times as many letters as a single letter target , the word is easier to perceive . |
| 20 | It is best known from the presbytery garden at Chatillon-en-Diois in the French Alps , but has also been found in a single block in Poland , as a single specimen in Czechoslovakia , at a single locality in California and at not more than two or three other places in the world . |
| 21 | Better than some , in fact , since he had once had West Riding connections and , as young political agitators went , possessed a relatively unblemished reputation , with not so much as a single term of imprisonment , as yet , to be used against him at the hustings . |
| 22 | A window can be the same size as the screen or as small as a single icon . |
| 23 | He allowed her to go through everything without so much as a single interruption . |
| 24 | There is no such thing as a single millionaire . |
| 25 | It is possible to treat each of the pair , as a single consonant phoneme ( we will call this the one-phoneme analysis of , ) , and it is also possible to say that they are composed of two phonemes each — either plus or plus all of which are already established as independent phonemes of English ; this will be called the two-phoneme analysis of and . |