Example sentences of "only [verb] a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercury currently only offers a single level of service termed ‘ primary rate ’ . |
| 2 | That morning they went to a travel agent in the Unter den Linden to buy tickets , having only booked a single journey from London . |
| 3 | Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market . |
| 4 | But we 're only outputting a single line , so you that 's all you can do . |
| 5 | For example , if you only specify a single mirror you can draw shapes that are symmetrical about a line — like a vase or light bulb etc . |
| 6 | Fortunately she had n't finished unloading the car , so would only have a single hold-all to carry back downstairs . |
| 7 | This problem arises because each grid cell can only have a single attribute value and because the chosen grid dimensions are too large to resolve the spatial detail required . |
| 8 | Another saving is that you only pay a single charge for postage no matter how many books you buy . |
| 9 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 10 | P.O. ( A ) Jopling and his TAG , L/A Glen , were in the Skua ( L3007 ) , they and the Fulmar firing from long range but only achieving a single hit on the dorsal turret , but both then closed in and after further firing the much-damaged floatplane came down on the sea , the engineer breaking an arm during the crash-landing . |
| 11 | However , when each subject only provides a single value for the estimate of signal detection variables ( as in this case where data is aggregated across subjects ) , Locksley , Stangor , Hepburn , Grosovsky & Hockstrasser ( 1984 ) recommend that nonparametric measures are used . |