Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 2 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 3 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 4 | The Gallup survey , commissioned by the Daily Telegraph , also found that more than a third could not think of a single thing about Britain of which to be proud . |
| 5 | The group of organisms — the flock of birds , the pack of wolves — does not merge into a single vehicle , precisely because the genes in the flock or the pack do not share a common method of leaving the present vehicle . |
| 6 | PEACE envoy Lord Owen warned last night that Bosnia-Herzegovina would not survive as a single state if Moslems and Croats continued fighting . |
| 7 | The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc , pursuing its interests whatever they may be . |
| 8 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 9 | She infers that using such forms means ‘ absence of cognitive flexibility ’ and quotes the studies by Bereiter and others ( Osborn , 1967 ) of lower-class children who , it is argued , ‘ can not conceive of a single object having two attributes ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 10 | Alright he was carrying an injury but surely the onus of the team should not rest on a single player — and besides what was he doing for the first 80 minutes on Saturday . |
| 11 | His great virtue was that he did not rely on a single visit , but frequently returned after a period of years and was able to comment on progress — or lack of it — and the way in which new legislation was being implemented . |
| 12 | It is rubbish to think that , because Sheikh Mohammed and his brothers did not bid for a single horse at Newmarket last week , the racing game is about to die on its feet . |
| 13 | For this reason , although Iveco runs a fully integrated European operation , the group can not trade as a single company with a single board of directors . |
| 14 | It was symbolic , perhaps , of the deep-rooted nature of national instincts that the ECSC could not agree upon a single language in which to conduct its activities . |
| 15 | The rhetorical theorist would not dissent from a single word , but would feel impelled to add a further remark . |
| 16 | This truth is to be reinterpreted in the light of my principle that art does not derive from a single impulse ( i.e. the Apolline impulse towards beauty ) , but from two : the Dionysiac as well as the Apolline . |
| 17 | I ca n't think of a single occasion in which this might come in handy . |
| 18 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 19 | ‘ Since you ask me sir I ca n't think of a single reason — oh except … my voice is trained . ’ |
| 20 | They were the faces of two entirely separate people , and try as I would to superimpose them they would n't focus into a single man for whom I had a single , straightforward feeling . |
| 21 | Do n't stick to a single time each day but try to vary it to see if the time of day makes a difference for you . |
| 22 | This wo n't work for a single motif , but how about a single motif in black , knitted against a striped background of bright jewel colours , or white on pastel stripes ? ( for this , the card does n't need to be reversed of course . ) |
| 23 | The reason is simple , the program is now bigger than 800K and wo n't fit on a single disk ! |
| 24 | This did n't happen during a single eruption , of course ; the individual flows average only ten metres thick , so many hundreds of individual flows are piled up one on top of the other , covering an area of about 130,000 square kilometres . |
| 25 | I 'm surprised Sister did n't ask for a single room . |