Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a single [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , between the upper strata of the landed aristocracy and the wealthiest members of the industrial and commercial society there were many links ; and gradually these two elements came to be joined together in a single ruling group … |
| 2 | Either each bell sounds different , and each could be heard in every apartment , or each sounds the same but is wired up to sound only in a single specific apartment when pressed . |
| 3 | Tendrils from the two black shapes reached out to entwine with each other , pulling their cores closer together until , as Ace watched in amazement , they melded together into a single muscular column of flesh crowned with thorns . |
| 4 | We therefore divided the periodogram values by the best-fit power law ( see Table1 ) , and binned the results so that the QPO features would on average appear mostly in a single high-valued bin . |
| 5 | The worlds they encompass read end to end do n't add up or line up along a single straight trajectory . |
| 6 | In cephalaspids ( Cephalaspis illustrated ) the eyes were placed dorsally with a single nasohypophysial opening and the flattened head shield was fenestrated by enlarged sensory fields connected to the inner ear . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom has now taken the first step towards European Monetary Union which is intended to lead eventually to a single European currency . |
| 8 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 9 | A fourth squeaked through on a single disputed vote . |
| 10 | The question , though , remains : given these differences , is there any sense in which we can still refer today to a single academic community ? |
| 11 | But these are not instances of the academic community acting concertedly as a single corporate body , being self-critical about its own internal affairs and activities . |
| 12 | If a major war in Europe appears likely , the flights will disperse up to 160 km from their main operating base so that they can not be wiped out in a single nuclear attack . |
| 13 | Crisis and clarity are notebook froth whipped up by a single hidden energy . |
| 14 | Really , the range of deviance that gets linked with S&M ( everything from suburban catwomen to lesbian ‘ chicks with dicks ’ , from gay men attending workshops on scat to the body piercing crowd ) is too diverse , in some cases too much of a genuine underground , to be tied down to a single political reading . |
| 15 | Half a dozen craftsmen and designers worked together in a single clapper-board building . |
| 16 | Tsu Ma was dressed in white , his hair tied back in a single elegant bow . |
| 17 | The epidermis at this stage consists simply of a single basal layer of cuboidal cells overlaid by an outer layer of squamous cells , called the periderm . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But this indeterminacy should not , and ultimately can not , be hidden or brought together under a single overarching account . |
| 20 | The skull seems to become translucent , and within it — and in the flesh about it — knotted cords of white begin to form into a spiral which funnels back into a single thicker cord at the back of the skull . |
| 21 | Consequently , when a handful of practitioners came together in 1979 , it did so with a single guiding principle : ‘ the real measure of development is the ability of a people to build its own comprehensive and complimentary and independent infrastructure that is capable of dealing with its own problems , needs and aspirations . ’ |
| 22 | These sharp increases will contrast with below-inflation rent rises of 95 pence a week in about 156 local authority areas , as the Government for the first time moves away from a single national rents policy for the 4.5 million council tenants in England . |
| 23 | Following through in a single smooth action , Manville threw himself to the ground and rolled out of the doorway on to the sidewalk . |
| 24 | At large values of a , the chaotic solution returns directly to a single periodic solution , which then splits into a symmetric pair of solutions that undergo a period-doubling cascade back into chaos . |