Example sentences of "be that [art] single [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disadvantages are that the single battery has less stamina than a pod of AAs giving the same voltage , and the female terminal can splay ( or the segments fold under if the battery is installed carelessly ) . |
| 2 | This document accepts that the traditional trade union approach to employee representation has been that the single channel for th for the representation should be through trade union membership now just listen to this colleagues . |
| 3 | The proper conclusion appears to be that no single theory can underlie all potential agency situations , and that these must be examined on a case by case basis . |
| 4 | Liam Hudson suggests that ‘ it may be that a single system of values embraces the individual 's perceptions of academic institutions ; his perception of himself and his demonstrable behaviour ’ , and goes on to say that , |
| 5 | Asked how he rates himself as a novelist , he replies : ‘ All I can say is that every single book has sold more than the last . |
| 6 | Martin Feldstein , Professor of Economics at Harvard University , head of America 's Bureau of Economic Research and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the president of the United States , summed up his views on the matter thus : ‘ My judgment is that a Single Currency for Europe would be a liability . ’ |
| 7 | The translucent message from the corridors of power , in Europe and in Whitehall , is that a single currency will be established , and that we shall be part of it . |
| 8 | The reason why it is considered so important that we should not make a commitment at this stage to join a single currency is that a single currency would involve not only a single central bank but single economic management and a commitment by the Government and people of this country to subsidise , if necessary , the trade deficit of Italy , the budget deficits of other countries and the different standards of living . |
| 9 | The risk of this policy is that a single product may be standardised prematurely . |
| 10 | For the truth is that no single agent affects our planet as much as we do . |
| 11 | The central problem with the set-up , however , is that no single body is charged with calculating the opportunity costs of environmental bossiness . |
| 12 | My concern is that the single market simply will not be able to operate effectively while one important part of the labour force lacks mobility . |
| 13 | The second recommendation was that a single budget should be established for the care of elderly people in the community , with contributions from the NHS and from local authorities . |
| 14 | Most of the attacks were near main roads , and the original police hypothesis was that a single madman or religious fanatic was motoring from one enclosed pasture to another ; then several horses seemed to have been assaulted in different places at the same time , although this is not certain . |
| 15 | The unanimous consensus was that every single sherd fitted into the first century , except a mortarium rim found in the uppermost layer . |
| 16 | In the case of carers who have their own children this is easier to see than for the classic ( and disappearing ) case of the single daughter who was presumed to be childless ; although in that case the assumption in the past was that the single daughter would be rewarded in material terms through being the major beneficiary of her parents ' will , if they had money or property to bequeath . |