Example sentences of "single [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Newbolt Report is the first , and indeed has remained the single most comprehensive official report on English , there has been a tendency to use it as the key to the most fundamental ideological impulses of the discipline . |
| 2 | In swimming — the single most popular physical recreation after walking — the importance of teaching children to swim has drawn in some women and competitive swimming is a very important sport for girls . |
| 3 | In some cases it might have been irrelevant because companies would have decentralized anyway ; in others it might have enabled decentralization or , in combination with other factors encouraged it ; in some cases it might indeed have been the single most important immediate consideration . |
| 4 | Probably the single most important European developer of such systems is UK-based Videologic . |
| 5 | For this reason , handwashing is the single most important personal activity in preventing infection , so it is essential that people wash their hands after going to the toilet and before touching food . |
| 6 | The single most important technological issue in multimedia concerns the effective handling of images in general and full motion , full screen video in particular . |
| 7 | Indeed , the single most important social change to have occurred in the countryside in recent years has concerned the changing social and occupational composition of its population . |
| 8 | This was the single most important legislative intervention addressing sexuality throughout the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The portrait of Andrew Jackson Ten Broeck , aged one year and six months and dated 1834 , is one of the great masterpieces of American Folk Art by Ammi Phillips , long considered to be the single most important naive painter of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , said on Oct. 13 , 1989 , that the technology had placed an effective anti-missile system within US reach and described it as " the single most important military bequest this generation could make to the future " . |
| 11 | To all such approaches to the uses of speech , a strong objection might be made along the following lines : rather than look for a series of static functions or contextual parameters , one should attend directly to the single most important dynamic context of language use , namely conversation , or face-to-face interaction . |
| 12 | Psychoanalytic theory has probably been the single most important theoretical influence on the discipline of Art History over the past decade . |
| 13 | Women who start having babies early end up with more babies than average , and this is the single most important statistical determinant of final family size ( Kiernan 1987 ) . |
| 14 | It comes down to this : a rejection of the single most important human fact between Newton and the Atomic Bomb — the sudden multiple increase of the earth 's population , the coming into existence of the MASSES . |
| 15 | The next pair of readings are concerned with what has perhaps been the single most salient political issue in British education in the twentieth century : the issue of inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcome between social classes — particularly between middle and working class children . |
| 16 | There are conceptual and methodological problems to overcome , and the need to resist the tendency to believe that QOL can be assessed with a single quickly applied composite measure . |