Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three figures are naked , except for a single strap of bikini-like harness running across the woman 's chest . |
| 2 | He closed all Catholic schools and colleges for three days and cancelled all services for the following Sunday , except for a single Mass in the Cathedral Church , to which 100,000 people came . |
| 3 | Vic feels his blood pressure rising at the thought of his eldest son , who dropped out of university four months ago and has not been usefully occupied since , now swaddled in a duvet upstairs , naked except for a single gold earring , sleeping off last night 's booze . |
| 4 | The upper decks were wide with two and two seating , except for a single seat by the trolley which was slightly offset . |
| 5 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 6 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |
| 7 | On other vases , especially on his favourite form , an egg-shaped amphora with narrow neck , like those used for prize oil at the Panathenaic games , he reaches the logical conclusion of this trend : a vase totally black except for a single figure on each side , without even a ground-line ( fig. 106 ) ; the figure is the whole decoration . |
| 8 | Employers would be prohibited from conducting a medical examination of any employment applicant , except for the single purpose of ascertaining ability to perform job-related functions . |
| 9 | Edinburgh is known as ‘ The University in the City ’ because its buildings are located within and across the capital whose name it bears , rather than in a single campus outwith the city limits . |
| 10 | In principal , twice the number of phosphate rotors need to be restricted in forming the duplex than in a single strand helix , although experimentally the adverse entropy change is essentially the same in the two cases . |
| 11 | The restrictions generated by rational expectations models are very often non-linear and are also imposed across equations rather than in a single equation . |
| 12 | In moving to a SmartStream client-server environment , most organisations would have to replace predominantly dumb end-user terminals with more expensive personal computer clients needed to run the Windows front end and other tools as well as buying a slew of different software packages , albeit from a single supplier . |
| 13 | In moving to a SmartStream client/server environment , most organisations would have to replace predominantly dumb end-user terminals with more expensive personal computer clients needed to run the Windows front end and other tools as well as buying a slew of different software packages , albeit from a single supplier . |
| 14 | Of course , co-ordination is invariably more difficult to achieve between organizations than within a single organization . |
| 15 | So that demonstrates , that 's an example then , demonstrating the effect of an activator on a on the open state probability rather than on the single channel current . |
| 16 | Rather than on the single channel current or the number of channels . |
| 17 | Because of the single decision , the union is able to choose only wages ( Blair and Crawford , 1984 , p. 550 ) . |
| 18 | For the coals , the 9 samples submitted to GeoChem Laboratories gave R values between 0.38 and 0.54% , while on a single sample from Coalisland , Robertson Research International measured an R of 0.65% . |
| 19 | Several studies have shown the consequences of a gluten challenge in coeliac disease subjects , whether as a single amount or as repeated daily administration of gluten within the range of a normal diet . |
| 20 | Radio control is clearly the most attractive means of operating the remote camera , whether as a single channel on the shutter or , as Raoul Fosset uses , three channels for full control to orbit the field of view and fire the shutter . |
| 21 | The main thrust of the reported research is collaboration , whereby groups of teachers combine to tackle a variety of problems , whether within a single school or a local area . |
| 22 | Whether within a single topic or within a range of topics , the construction of material aimed to illustrate links between concepts or links between topics is a fascinating but demanding exercise . |
| 23 | Formerly the domicile of a wife was necessarily the same as that of her husband , but under the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 the wife 's dependent domicile was abolished : now her domicile is determined according to the same rules as for a single person . |
| 24 | There will be no charge for this facility and the same payment methods will be available as with a single charge . |
| 25 | Her collection of outdoor treasures shot to the ground as in a single movement she leapt up and out between the trees . |