Example sentences of "a single individual " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regional variations in waiting times for operations , the excessive drugs prescribed by some doctors and other failings were often not the failing of a single individual . |
| 2 | So it was only on rare occasions that the issue of local sovereignty arose : usually when a person — a single individual — got carried away by indignation or by enthusiasm to raise points which prudent men , a little weary of what they considered to be rhetoric , tended to suppress . |
| 3 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 4 | The larger rodents in both regions are represented by only a single individual in the ant assemblage probably because their bones are too heavy for the ants to carry . |
| 5 | Since these variations can occur within a single species , and even within a single individual , it is clear that good samples are necessary before attempting to distinguish patterns . |
| 6 | It is just conceivable , however that , even at this time he may have started to indulge in a very simple form of god worship entirely on his own as a single individual , group worship following much later . |
| 7 | He is not really a man related to other men in natural affinity or community : he is atomised man , human society pared down to a single individual . |
| 8 | This is an astonishing output from a single individual if detailed concentrated effort was put into all of them . |
| 9 | I quoted examples showing that significant changes in organizations can be catalysed by the presence of even a single individual who is willing to engage with the problem deeply , persistently and openly . |
| 10 | Such instances are not typical of their managerial system of control for it is unlikely that a single individual would be able to oversee a widely dispersed media empire . |
| 11 | For example , Private Acts of Parliament are treated as legislation even though they may regulate the conduct of only a single individual ; on the other hand , an ‘ administrative order ’ affecting a large number of people may be difficult to distinguish from as legislative act . |
| 12 | This discovery , that a combination can be stronger than a single individual , or a couple , marked a major step in humanity 's development as a species , but carried with it restrictions over sexual activity , because this leads to two people aiming to be independent from everyone else . |
| 13 | This is a strictly private company in that the issue of a prospectus is prohibited and even a single individual may act as the ‘ founder of the company ’ . |
| 14 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 15 | From the history of man in general we focus down to the story of a single individual , Abraham , and his descendants . |
| 16 | The design team may have many forms from a single individual working alone to a broadly based curriculum development team with specialists in curriculum design , graphics , programming and observation ; however , for our purpose it is useful to emphasize three roles — the curriculum designer who has overall responsibility for the program teaching unit and its associated written or audio-visual material , the program designer who realizes the computer program and the teacher developers in whose classrooms the material is tried and tuned . |
| 17 | For then , as Professor Jack Lively has pointed out , it is open to any minority , or even a single individual , to block a decision or policy which otherwise commands overwhelming support . |
| 18 | By 1840 not a single individual remained . |
| 19 | As we pointed out then , although a stretch of discourse can appear to be largely concerned with a single individual , or one discourse subject , so that the discourse may be loosely reported as being ‘ about ’ that individual , this should not lead us to claim that all discourses are about single individuals or can be given convenient one-word titles . |
| 20 | First , a single individual is never rewarded alone , but the reward is distributed as equally as possible within the work group . |
| 21 | It was a satisfaction to me many years later , when I was a member of a Royal Commission on Tribunals of Enquiry , established to advise how secrets should be dealt with , that I was able to persuade the chairman of the Commission , Lord Salmon , and through him the whole of the Commission , to recommend that there should never again be an inquiry of the Denning type , where a single individual was authorised to investigate any piece of gossip or scandal relating to any prominent public person . |
| 22 | Equipment of this kind is not something a single individual could afford but the services are available from a growing number of bureaux . |
| 23 | The whole essence of a TechDoc system is that it is an integrated product which allows a single individual to complete all the tasks necessary to create the final document . |
| 24 | No search should ever be carried out by a single individual . |
| 25 | If we recall the earlier section on knowledge , the idea of a single individual reaching a secure position of authority in relation to knowledge is dubious to say the least . |
| 26 | ‘ Conflicts of interest ’ may exist throughout the organisation — or even within a single individual . |
| 27 | the number of paid public appointments that can be held by a single individual should be limited ; |
| 28 | As defined , affray is no longer an offence of group disorder at all — it may be committed by a single individual attacking another . |
| 29 | Instead of the negation of all individuality , we are offered a parable of a single individual who , in his heroic struggle , " takes the whole Dionysiac world on his back and thus relieves us of that burden " . |
| 30 | The research " team " is usually just a single individual , or perhaps a married couple , with maybe a local assistant . |