Example sentences of "[noun sg] and a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , we soon come up to a party of puffin and a single guillemot . |
| 2 | The pressure of the air springs is adjusted constantly by the computer via one inflation solenoid valve per spring and a single deflation valve to maintain body level at all times . |
| 3 | This clever device produces a parallel double row on one side and a single row of zigzag stitches on the other . |
| 4 | The variations are so wide that it would contravene both the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) and the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) if there were just a single offence of non-fatal harm and a single offence of sexual assault : this would often leave little to be decided at the trial and would transfer the effective decision to the sentencing stage . |
| 5 | he had to share a bathroom with the four other tenants on the floor , and the room itself consisted of little more than a single bed pushed up against the wall to one side of the room , a wood-wormed wardrobe and a single gas ring for cooking . |
| 6 | Many commentators have tried to draw a distinction of economic principle between the ERM and a Single Currency . |
| 7 | FROM desk-top micros to the largest mainframes , conventional computers are built around a single processor and a single store of memory . |
| 8 | Rather than addressing individual anomalies by directives , ICAS called for a conceptual framework and a single model tax treaty , to be signed by all EC members , which would in itself result in harmonised treatment of cross-border transactions . |
| 9 | This bears one humbucker and a single coil pickup , both designed for Eggle by Kent Armstrong . |
| 10 | ‘ This is a wonder drug and a single course of it would cost a small fortune — yet you make lots of it through delight . |
| 11 | To say the least , it is unfortunate that a multiply influenced process with many stages in it should be thought of by sociobiological proponents and their critics alike ( e.g. Solomon , 1978 ) as having an invariant outcome and a single explanation . |
| 12 | So stick to a single species from this group and a single male with 3–4 females if possible . |
| 13 | In many Sternorrhynchan Homoptera and higher Diptera , only the suboesophageal ganglion and a single compound thoracico-abdominal gang-lion are to be seen while in the Coccoidea , Aphidoidea and some Coleopteran larvae all the ventral ganglia ( including the suboesophageal ) are united in a single centre . |
| 14 | Lauderdale , Fla. , was on a direct IFR flight from Houston to Acapulco , carrying pilot , co-pilot and a single passenger . |
| 15 | cDNA expression libraries constructed from U937 and Daudi cell lines were screened with KS128 antibody and a single clone with a 1.7-kilobase ( kb ) insert was isolated by three rounds of COS cell transfection , panning and episomal rescue . |
| 16 | There is an obvious correlation between a boolean variable and a single bit position in a computer word , with one representing true and zero representing false . |
| 17 | In 1814 , inspired by Herder 's Stimmen der Völker , Vuk produced a volume of Serbian national songs , in the preface to which he drew attention to the need for standardisation of the language , for ‘ no two people approve of each other 's ways and write alike , but also no single man writes consistently … so it will be without cease , until our learned men … can agree amongst themselves , and in cooperation write a Serbian grammar and a single dictionary ’ . |
| 18 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 19 | We can not have a single currency , a single immigration policy , a single foreign policy and a single defence policy without being a united states of Europe . |
| 20 | Until now , the Greeks have claimed to be among the most radical of Europeans , ready to move swiftly to a federal European union with a single foreign policy and a single army . |
| 21 | No phones — Cawthorne would have mobiles — and apart from the two benches for the machinery and a single typist 's swivel chair , nothing else . |
| 22 | The last issue of Punch has a satisfactory collection of advertisements for cigarettes , beer and whisky and one or two bizarre items for the connoisseur — a two-page spread for Kimberly-Clark lavatory paper and a single colour page for ‘ the ultimate collection of Sportsman 's Knives ’ . |
| 23 | Type A ( up to 3 people ) studios have a double and a single bed . |
| 24 | One carriageway and parapet was built first alongside the old bridge and a single tram track laid on it , reached by temporary crossovers and single track on the grass verge of the bridge approaches . |
| 25 | We saw the others ahead , waiting in a tiny square with a fountain and a single tree . |
| 26 | Inside the walls , in a similarly enlightened spirit , the conquerors destroyed most of the courtyards of the palace , leaving — and that grudgingly — little in the inner enclosure except the Pearl Mosque and a single string of pavilions spaced out also on the Jumna battlements . |
| 27 | It has a soft knitted collar and a single breast pocket . |
| 28 | Key items in the Queen 's Speech for the State Opening of Parliament on May 6 are expected to include : Ratification of the Maastricht treaty on closer European economic and political union and a single currency . |
| 29 | The first , and perhaps most logical — though one that is vigorously denied by Lord Lawson — is that it was part of a move leading to full monetary union and a Single Currency in Europe . |
| 30 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |