Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a single " in BNC.
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| 1 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 2 | The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements . |
| 3 | Musically this is very nearly correct , but not one recording includes so much as a single word of Gilbert 's spoken dialogue . |
| 4 | If , as its Members will , it seeks to bring about such change , it must rely upon other agencies if it is to shift the location of so much as a single molecule . |
| 5 | The French Dragoons crossed the frontier with drawn swords , but the weapons served no purpose other than to dignify the moment with a suitable melodrama , for there was not so much as a single Dutch customs officer to oppose the invasion . |
| 6 | ‘ Bill Mishkin 's just made New Canaan , Connecticut , March 1 to April 14 , without so much as a single shooting , beating , or naked buttock from one end to the other ! |
| 7 | Better than some , in fact , since he had once had West Riding connections and , as young political agitators went , possessed a relatively unblemished reputation , with not so much as a single term of imprisonment , as yet , to be used against him at the hustings . |
| 8 | He allowed her to go through everything without so much as a single interruption . |
| 9 | The poison is so effective that a single dart can kill a monkey in seconds . |
| 10 | It is a majestic ciliated sphere , the largest known sperm of any organism , plant or animal , so big that a single one is visible to the naked eye . |
| 11 | Despite their bare feet , our young guides strolled nonchalantly across these sections , apparently unconcerned that a single slip could send them plummeting down the mountainside . |
| 12 | What , a day return you see , is usually cheaper than a single , well it use to be . |
| 13 | The row of deutzia grown as a snowy hedge in rough grass is much more effective than a single bush . |
| 14 | A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools . |
| 15 | From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course . |
| 16 | Such a hybrid theory will almost certainly be simpler and more principled than a single amorphous and heterogeneous theory of semantics . |
| 17 | The problem is to detect as little as a single base pair difference between , say , two 500 base pair fragments . |
| 18 | Our preference is to have the lines so matched that , when the two handles are held together , the stunt kite soars overhead and is as stable as a single line kite . |
| 19 | Although , for the most part , we are not considering all alternatives , there is such a striking difference in this development for Pr greater than or less than about 10 that a single illustration would be inadequate . |
| 20 | She would cut off her right arm and give it to him if he came over with as much as a single bag . |
| 21 | If a really soft fabric is required , the backing yarn can be as fine as a single strand of 2/30 . |
| 22 | The genetic material may be as small as a single gene , while some protein coats are made of multiple copies of only one specific protein molecule . |
| 23 | A window can be the same size as the screen or as small as a single icon . |
| 24 | Indeed , if the state can be thought of as acting as a single shareholder then it will be in a more powerful position vis-a-vis management than are shareholders of most private companies . |
| 25 | The COMTEN AMIGOS software allows the user to replace two separate IBM modules , one for sequential and the other for direct reference to an indexed sequential file , by a single module that requires less space and performs the same functions ; this is particularly helpful if a single run updates sequentially but allows enquiries during the runs . |
| 26 | This is particularly necessary where a single person is responsible for several languages . |
| 27 | The fossil finds in Hadar , Ethiopia , from that time have been variously interpreted as indicating either two or a single species with extreme sexual dimorphism ( size difference between males and females ) . |