Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmentalists , who have long campaigned for a single agency , have expressed their concern that the plans for the reform of the Inspectorate amount to little more than political opportunism and will have little real impact . |
| 2 | But er if they were just working for a single day , it was long day up till ten o'clock at night in a harvest you know . |
| 3 | He played a leading role in the $5m deal with Morrow that gave his novel Whirlwind a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the recipient of the highest ever advance for a single work of fiction . |
| 4 | I have made it a point of honour to spare you moral blackmail of the ‘ Do you honestly suppose for a single moment that I would be capable of stooping to such beastliness ? ’ variety , and I shall not waver even at this supreme moment . |
| 5 | Mr Lang had lunch with senior Highland Region councillors , who afterwards argued for a single Highland authority based on the region to replace the current system . |
| 6 | In particular , when de-activation occurs on the basis of contextual mismatches , less sensory information is therefore needed for a single word candidate to emerge . |