Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc , pursuing its interests whatever they may be . |
| 2 | There 's a bit of a puzzle here erm how can a community act as a single body independently of its governmental institutions ? |
| 3 | PEACE envoy Lord Owen warned last night that Bosnia-Herzegovina would not survive as a single state if Moslems and Croats continued fighting . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There is a similar departure from the notion of a fixed sequence of modes of production and their corresponding political and cultural forms in recent works which concentrate their attention upon specific types of political regime which do not necessarily fall within a single time span . |
| 7 | Resource charts show money , manhours , mandays , manweeks , percentage reference as the vertical scale and can focus on a single assignment , project or the entire plan to form a cost-schedule graph . |
| 8 | I ca n't think of a single occasion in which this might come in handy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Isabel could not think of a single thing to say . |
| 12 | I could not think of a single thing that Quigley had ever done for me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Since you ask me sir I ca n't think of a single reason — oh except … my voice is trained . ’ |
| 15 | They have variable compositions and may consist of a single phase in which case they are called homogeneous . |
| 16 | The energy difference between the two terms is Δ , and so on this simple basis the electronic spectrum should consist of a single band whose energy gives Δ directly . |
| 17 | It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number . |
| 18 | It may consist of a single file although , particularly under Windows , this is becoming less common . |
| 19 | The active volcanic belt may consist of a single chain of volcanoes or form a broad belt up to 150 km in width . |
| 20 | It would be odd if they did , since feminists , like philosophers , do not speak with a single voice . |
| 21 | The Labour party fears that somewhere there might be a single person who is also a millionaire who could benefit from a single person 's discount , so it is absolutely against the proposal . |
| 22 | The Left drew the less tenable if understandable conclusion that all socialists should unite in a single organization to oppose the threat of fascism , without placing any reliance on the British state to protect domestic political institutions . |
| 23 | A change in magma composition may occur during a single eruption as different parts of the magma chamber are tapped , but more significant compositional changes , often leading to the production of more acidic ejecta , may arise during the overall lifespan of a volcano as a result of chemical changes in the magma reservoir . |
| 24 | 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 . ) |
| 25 | They are extremely economic and can run as a single generator , providing heat , hot water and electricity , or as part of a district heating system where a network of houses or commercial buildings are linked up . |
| 26 | Article 44 states , ‘ If the government requires , the Assembly must pronounce with a single vote on the whole or part of the text in question making only those amendments accepted by the government ’ , which enables the government to bypass the scrutiny procedures ( such as they are ) entirely . |
| 27 | Siva the Serpent King , patron of the Yogis , possessor of the ultimate wisdom on the earthly or material plane , insists that spiritual evolution through ‘ illumination ’ can occur in a single lifetime , thus eliminating a succession of rebirths . |
| 28 | Jovellanos say in a House of Lords the only wall that could stem the tide towards democracy that would run in a single chamber . |
| 29 | She will begin in a single room , where both her health and aptitude for prison life will be assessed , but may then be moved to a dormitory . |
| 30 | Both types of report may therefore emerge from a single study . |