Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still have grave doubts as to whether it is right to go for a single currency , fixed exchange rates and the whole of that considerable abdication of political sovereignty . |
| 2 | We should not find it easy to go for a single currency if we had already moved down the federalist route in a dangerous way on foreign and defence policies . |
| 3 | Search can also be used to search for a single word or a string of words and letters . |
| 4 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 5 | New work patterns , such a partial shifts , mean that senior house officers are less likely to work for a single consultant and also make it more difficult for all junior doctors to attend teaching sessions at set times . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about a single thing . ’ |
| 7 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 8 | By now the tendency for manufacturers to concentrate on a single site was apparent , and many of the smaller mills , such as Inchbrook , fell into disuse . |
| 9 | But , as Conservative Members pointed out in Committee , to talk about a single pensioner premium is to concede the principle behind discounts . |
| 10 | LEADERS of the 12 European Community nations yesterday added impetus to progress towards a single market in 1992 , while admitting that several important issues remained to be solved . |
| 11 | Forcing pluralistic , many-faced groups to march behind a single banner may protect the self-proclaimed leaders , but it 's likely to endanger the community as a whole , as well as compounding the difficulties of its most vulnerable members . |
| 12 | I accept that it is conditional on the decision to participate in a single currency , but I hope that Conservative Members have noted that the necessity of an independent central bank to such a system is accepted by the Government and other member states . |
| 13 | Ukraine and Azerbaijan , however , refused to participate in a single defence budget for joint strategic forces , undertaking only a share of financing the strategic forces stationed on their territory . |
| 14 | During Clara Taylor 's time as headmistress , the school became too large to function as a single unit and a system of four houses was adopted . |
| 15 | As each element may consist of one or more of the elements of the line below , it is possible for a sentence to consist of a single clause which consists of a single phrase which consists of a single word . |
| 16 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |
| 17 | If a compressed file is too large to fit onto a single diskette , it will automatically be split across as many diskettes as are needed . |
| 18 | A natural target , then : a nationwide monopoly , compelling the public to buy from a single supplier . |
| 19 | Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War . |
| 20 | It is no longer possible to either create a toner particle small enough to stick to a single pixel of charge or to maintain that pixel of charge in isolation long enough for the toner , were it there , to stick . |
| 21 | It is odd — one of the anomalies of science — that it is possible to look at a single entity as if it were either one thing or another , apparently quite different thing . |
| 22 | We put this to you as an answer to all slimmers who say they only need to look at a single cake or bar of chocolate to put on a substantial amount of fat . |
| 23 | Whereas an opponent may be able to cope with a single technique , it is much more difficult when the attack is continuous , incorporating both linear and circular blows delivered to different , often widely separated targets . |
| 24 | To use as a single border design , knit as for rows 1–47 of ‘ landscape design ’ and continue in plain knitting with dark green . |
| 25 | For example , a number of humanities courses allow the student to postpone a decision to opt for a single subject or interdisciplinary course , or a major , joint or minor programme until the beginning of the second year . |
| 26 | And as in Dreams separate realities can fuse in a single image or sequence , so here words fuse as Joyce attempts to cast in a single form the body of his culture , the depth , variety , the body of his feelings — the feelings of his body . |
| 27 | The reason is quite simple : it is not a route to do on a single rope . |
| 28 | After becoming estranged from Kim Dae Jung following their inability to agree upon a single candidate to oppose Roh Tae Woo in the 1987 presidential contest , in 1990 he led his opposition party into an amalgamation with Roh 's ruling party to form the DLP . |
| 29 | The impression given by the marketing campaign is that you are being invited to invest in a single entity — the British water industry — and that there will be attractive perks for those who do . |
| 30 | Another splendid fellow was A.C.K. Kermode who taught " Theory of Flight " which seemed to embrace in a single formula , at least to me , the entire majesty of flight . |