Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] a single [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the decision can not be impugned on the facts , it undoubtedly confirms the difficulties which inventor employees face where the employer 's sales can only be traced to a single main purchaser of the patented product . |
| 2 | Knowles ( 1978 ) , who is particularly critical of Labov , argues that while the assumption that variants of a variable may be placed on a single social and phonetic continuum makes quantification relatively easy , it also oversimplifies the real range of choices open to speakers . |
| 3 | It was difficult , in any of this , to discover what a future socialist or communist society would be like ; if there was consensus about anything it was that it would not be based upon public ownership , would not be dominated by a single ruling party , would not supersede capitalism and might not even offer an alternative to it . |
| 4 | Such decisions will not be able to be made by a single Prime Minister without reference back . |
| 5 | He believed that all living forms can be related into a single developmental sequence . |
| 6 | They concluded that the mother 's diet ‘ may influence the likelihood of infantile colic in breast-fed children , but that the source of the colic can not be attributed to a single dietary component [ ie milk ] . |
| 7 | Where the concept of the Created God is accepted , it is not difficult to differentiate between a healthy conscience and a guilt complex , for the criterion will then be known to be based on a single undisputed source of ethical knowledge . |
| 8 | The committee recommended that O grades , taken only by the abler pupils , be replaced by an examination that matched comprehensive education , and that all pupils should be assessed for a single national certificate in each subject . |
| 9 | The grade two listed buildings on the Mappin and Webb site opposite the Mansion House are to be replaced by a single new building comprising offices , shops , a restaurant and a pub . |
| 10 | ‘ The committee generally are strongly of opinion that larceny , embezzlement and fraudulent conversion should be replaced by a single new offence of theft . |
| 11 | The Marsham Street development has been adjudged too brutal for the London landscape and will be knocked down to be replaced by a single six-storey scheme . |
| 12 | The EC has adopted the Report 's proposals that member countries ' currencies be replaced by a single European currency and that a European Central Bank , with responsibility for the Community 's monetary and exchange rate policies , be established . |
| 13 | Messenger is not , of course , suggesting that women 's writing in the period is so fragmented that the concept is basically useless , but that the writing of women can not be reduced to a single critical proposition . |
| 14 | A sense of the role of individual officers in the Council 's policy formulation and implementation processes at this stage of its history can be derived from a single indicative case . |
| 15 | The trend towards a single government and single parliament was emphasised by the words , ‘ The union shall be served by a single institutional framework . ’ |
| 16 | In the Bill , the lottery will be run by a single private sector body and offer a range of games . |
| 17 | A second technique is deconcentration — although functions may be departmentalised in a single central government department , it may nevertheless be desirable for administration to be dispersed from the geographical centre and into the regions and localities where it takes actual effect ‘ on the ground ’ . |
| 18 | Moreover the constitution which the Swedish Diet was forced to accept in that year ( the first in the world to be embodied in a single comprehensive organized document ) was in some ways relatively moderate . |
| 19 | Variscan folding and thrusting can , however , be seen north of the Midi Overthrust , and the general view of workers in the U.K. is that here the Variscan Front can not be identified with a single laterally-continuous thrust plane , though locally it may be ( Hancock 1983 ) . |
| 20 | I have always felt that most of the practical differences between the handling of tailwheel aircraft and those with their third wheel at the wrong end could be covered in a single comprehensive magazine article ( like mine in March Pilot ) , but after reading The Compleat Taildragger Pilot I concede that , if you want to cover all the relevant theory too , something this size is required . |
| 21 | The scoop-type single cone kite is an exception to this , but Messrs Hoffrei of Herford in Germany introduced a novel ‘ X ’ shaped cross-spar on the Vision 11 which enabled sail tension and a taut spinal form to be maintained with a single stand-off . |
| 22 | A waste disposer can , of course , be fitted into a single main sink , but do make sure your building or house has the sort of drainage system that will not be fouled up by liquid refuse in bulk . |
| 23 | Most hedges can be planted in a single straight row , but for a denser , wider hedge plant in two staggered rows . |