Example sentences of "a single person " in BNC.
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| 1 | The applicable amount for a single person aged 60 to 74 is : £53.40 . |
| 2 | The weekly basic state pension from April 1991 to April 1992 is £52.00 for a single person and £83.25 for a married couple . |
| 3 | Sid Cordle , of the Yorkshire Conservative Trade Unions , protested that the basic state pension of £46.60 a week for a single person and £69.80 for a couple was totally inadequate . |
| 4 | However , the increase of up to £2.50 a week for a single person , and up to £3.50 a week for a couple , is considered small by many involved with the elderly . |
| 5 | Those who get housing benefit , but not income support , will find a single person 's rent rebate goes up £1.63 a week . |
| 6 | ‘ Had the increase in pensions been in line with inflation in the 12 months ending April 1989 , a single person with the basic state pension would have received an additional £44.20 and a couple another £72.80 during the year , ’ said Mrs Greengross . |
| 7 | ‘ Had the Government not broken the link in 1980 , the basic state pension would now be £9.70 a week higher for a single person , and £15.45 higher for a couple . |
| 8 | One Double Room is still available for either a single person or a couple . |
| 9 | Yet , curiously , the science that has changed the presentation of text has brought it back under the control of a single person , just as it was when the first presses printed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Augustine added that the same story is seldom repeated in precisely the same words by a single person . |
| 12 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 13 | A SCHEME by the Department of Health to provide beds for mentally ill people living rough has failed to help a single person , a group of leading charities says today . |
| 14 | Is there honestly a single person in the country , the Prime Minister included , who could have dared to predict that the Conservatives would end up with the largest number of votes ever recorded in a British election ? |
| 15 | We will increase the basic retirement pension by an extra £5 a week for a single person and £8 a week for a married couple . |
| 16 | A wire stretched from the contraption at the top out towards the school and hanging from it was a dangerous-looking wooden basket , big enough to hold a single person . |
| 17 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 18 | In April 1991 the weekly basic state pension for a single person was £52.00 , and for a married couple £83.25 . |
| 19 | The conflagration raged for many hours throughout the town , spreading rapidly through buildings already torn open by the blast , and with not a single person left alive to check it . |
| 20 | In fact the purchasing power of a single person 's pension in Britain was just less than 75 per cent of the French pension , 60 per cent of its West German counterpart and only 50 per cent of the value of the equivalent Dutch pension . |
| 21 | The rates quoted are for a single person in 1989/90 . |
| 22 | Manpower constraints , often found in industry , make it impracticable to allocate a single person to using online services . |
| 23 | The Infirmary League covered hospital treatment and cost 2d a week for a single person whilst the payment of 4d covered a whole family — father , mother and all children under eighteen . |
| 24 | A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools . |
| 25 | In accepting being alone much will obviously depend on the reason behind the situation and our ability to deal with the problems related to being a single person : the death of a partner or parents in retirement ; becoming separated or divorced ; adjusting to being an ‘ alien ’ pensioner . |
| 26 | When a single person has lived with a parent for most of their lives and cared for them devotedly , the effect of the bereavement is likely to be felt in many different ways . |
| 27 | Many people now reaching forty plus , have been enjoying a full sex life as a single person . |
| 28 | As the nuns themselves often said to us : ‘ Girls , a single person is useless to God and country . ’ |
| 29 | The personal allowances and reliefs ( income that you are allowed to earn without being taxed ) that pertain to a single person are as follows : |
| 30 | A single person can quite easily spend a week at a health farm or clinic without any feeling of loneliness or of being out-of-step with everyone else . |