Example sentences of "[noun pl] for a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danes will not have to go along with plans for a single currency , or with plans for a common Euro-defence policy . |
| 2 | In a statement released on Feb. 7 , the Bundesbank , the German central bank , expressed doubts about the plans for a single currency outlined in the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | I have used my wife and son as models , and my wife , who sadly died three years ago , was often heroic , posing for up to 30 hours for a single drawing . |
| 4 | The RSC , Ofwat and the House of Commons Environment Committee have submitted responses to the government 's proposals for a single environment agency . |
| 5 | Now the European peoples party manifesto calls for a single currency , a central bank , the incorporation of the social chapter a common immigration policy and a constitution for the whole of Europe . |
| 6 | — two letters can stand for one sound ( the letter-pair " sh " stands for a single sound ) , and one letter can stand for a sequence of two sounds ( in our dialect , " o " in the word " no " stands for two sounds in sequence , a vowel first , followed by a " w " sound made with the lips ) ; |
| 7 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 8 | The rise of complex , enterprise-wide client/server computing strategies has inevitably lead to demands for a single mechanism that will allow users to access information which resides on databases that may be distributed across a range of hardware platforms . |
| 9 | The rise of complex , enterprise-wide client-server computing strategies has inevitably lead to demands for a single mechanism that will enable users to access information which resides on databases that may be distributed across a range of hardware systems . |
| 10 | In some countries promissory notes are also used , as is the practice of making several settlements for a single invoice . |
| 11 | There are situations , it seems , where it is reasonable to say that there are two or more causal circumstances for a single effect . |
| 12 | Figure 5.2 Experience-based cost reductions for a single product and a generic class of products |
| 13 | In the past six months one London dealer says he has bought $2.5 million worth of the metals for a single client . |
| 14 | Rarely did the family eat so much , break so many eggs for a single meal , or stay so long at the table ; the pleasure of idleness rocked her limbs , the restless noise of her own worries grew still and their voices faded in her head . |
| 15 | The results were then calculated as the average error across the 20 readings for a single condition for each of the three pre- and post-adaptation phase conditions . |
| 16 | Delegates backed calls for the state pension to rise to half average earnings for couples and one third of average earnings for a single pensioner . |
| 17 | Age Concern believes that the basic state pension should be equal to one third average earnings for a single pension and one half for a couple . |
| 18 | However , the prospects for a single currency , other than in the long run , seem remote . |
| 19 | I should clarify at the outset that the vendors have retained us to seek offers for a single package comprising 100% of the share capital of [ name ] together with five additional freehold property investments . |
| 20 | Three times that day the judges awarded the maximum 30 points for a single ride . |
| 21 | Punters on the Nevsky Prospekt are asked to cough up 50 roubles for a single cone , or about 50p at the official exchange rate — a luxury for people making roughly £15 a week . |
| 22 | Some idea of its business , ranging from the apparently trivial to the significant , can be seen in the contents of its registers for a single day , 21 December 1595 . |
| 23 | Finally , the possibility exists of ‘ buying out ’ an actor 's repeat fees for a single payment — something Equity frowns on but can hardly prevent . |
| 24 | ‘ But if any man will read aloud on alternate mornings for a single month a page of Pindar and a page of the Psalms in any translation he chooses , I think I can guess which he will first grow tired of . ’ |
| 25 | It was a big , old house ; a lot of doors for a single man , if Parker lived in a single room . |
| 26 | And with ‘ perfumed strips ’ now impregnated into the pages of so many magazines , it 's possible to try new scents for a single day without venturing further than your friendly newsagent . |