Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the dealers were alert to new traces , if only because a single coin — the bronze ears of barley on the local currency of Rubi , with Demeter 's garlanded head on the obverse — might lead , like a broken twig , a crackle of a dry leaf , to greater treasure ; the boys could earn a lustrous fizzy drink from the new carbonator , or a cigarette in the cafe , with a promise to show the location of the trivial find . |
| 2 | The one study on which this latter conclusion is based can not be generalized to demonstrate that there is a specific deterrent effect for all other corporate offences , and in any case , it should be treated very cautiously , not only because a single study can often be shown later to have missed the general condition , but also because it flies in the face of empirically grounded deterrence theory . |
| 3 | There is a simple form of the STV , used only when a single candidate is to be elected , namely the alternative vote ( the AV ) . |
| 4 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 5 | Some of the failures of the model occurred in cases where the input was actually consistent with two parses , either a longer spanning word rather than a single word ( as in party ) or a different parse into two words , as in part rust for par trust . |
| 6 | In Bali , where cockfighting is also a controlled ritual , the cocks have two spurs with honed edges , rather than a single spur with a sharpened point , so the battles differ in style and technique , according to the aficionados , rather as swordsmanship differs depending on whether a cutlass or a rapier is used . |
| 7 | Legrand 's view of the transformation of the Earth science model in the twentieth century is self-confessedly based on the view of Laudan , that research is guided by a number of competing ‘ research traditions ’ , rather than a single paradigm . |
| 8 | The book read as though it were a collection of notes rather than a single document . |
| 9 | In fact a computer manufacturer normally designs a number of compatible models rather than a single computer , and these cover a range of speeds , capacities , and costs . |
| 10 | Pain in man requires the presence of distributed neuronal circuits rather than a single locus . |
| 11 | Lancashire burial registers , for instance , refer to fever , ague fever and pleurisy , but several diseases rather than a single culprit appear to have been responsible . |
| 12 | Instead , he conceived every illuminated point being the source of rays spreading in all directions ; a bundle of these rays ( rather than a single ray ) pass through the hole in a camera obscura ( or the pupil of the eye ) . |
| 13 | Remember that a complementary practitioner will be treating you rather than a single symptom . |
| 14 | Røst is actually a small group of islets rather than a single island , and a haven for birds in the spring . |
| 15 | A realistic scientific theory will consist of a complex of universal statements rather than a single statement like ‘ All swans are white ’ . |
| 16 | The FMI , launched in May 1982 , has been described by Gray and Jenkins ( 1986 , p. 173 ; 1985 , p. 124 ) as ‘ a general approach rather than a single strategy ’ , and as ‘ an umbrella under which a new management philosophy is being developed ’ . |
| 17 | The rare smoothbore Winchester rifle fired tiny particles of shot rather than a single bullet . |
| 18 | Any thermal energy is shared by the whole lattice rather than a single nucleus . |
| 19 | The only important consideration is whether the product is widely supported by both hardware and software producers so giving a choice rather than a single option . |
| 20 | Power Launcher is typical of an hDC product , in that it is a collection of utilities and programs rather than a single application . |
| 21 | It should be noted that these drag coefficients are for Clios with door mirror on both sides — rather than the single door mirror used by certain other companies to produce flattering windtunnel figures . |
| 22 | As the restrictions arise in a two-equation model ( rather than the single equation we considered before ) , we now require a method of summarizing the variation in both equation errors so that we can compare an unrestricted with a restricted model . |
| 23 | Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests . |
| 24 | This is , in all probability , a condensed reconstruction as the events in Jerusalem may well have lasted longer than a single week . |
| 25 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 26 | And when Kennedy was shot , the ‘ psycho ’ Hoover botched the FBI investigation personally , ignoring evidence that there might have been more than a single gunman involved , sending agents to question the background of the Warren Commission 's staff , punishing his own agents for failing to spot Oswald 's violent nature . |
| 27 | Universal kerbside collection schemes could collect up to 5.5 million tonnes a year , almost a third of total household waste , but the cost would come to £196 per household a year , even if every single household took part . |
| 28 | So to be concerned with fashion , to dress up and have fun with clothes , is to be stupid , even whilst every single day the fashion , advertising , and plastic surgery businesses ( not to mention slimming aids , diet books , fitness centres , cosmetics industry ) pump millions of pounds into all these things . |
| 29 | It is probably for this reason that male zebra finches copulate frequently with their partners , even though a single mating is quite sufficient to fertilise all the eggs . |
| 30 | The most natural explanation of why we oppose checkerboard statutes appeals to that ideal : we say that a state that adopts these internal compromises is acting in an unprincipled way , even though no single official who voted for or enforces the compromise has done anything which , judging his individual actions by the ordinary standards of personal morality , he ought not to have done . |