Example sentences of "single [adv] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research at the University of New Hampshire in the United States shows that the single most effective method of controlling apple scab is to collect and burn all fallen leaves from infected trees in autumn . |
| 2 | The prohibition embodied in this agreement , relating to the use of gas and other weapons , has been the single most effective prohibition of a class of weapon in the laws of war . |
| 3 | Even today , the spreadsheet is probably the single most useful piece of computer software for technical and business users . |
| 4 | The result is the single most comprehensive account of the early days at Dovercourt . |
| 5 | Figure 3.1 gives support to the view that ‘ Perhaps the single most distinguishing characteristic of the Japanese wage structure is the effect of firm size on wages ’ ( Hashimoto 1979 p.1098 ) . |
| 6 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 7 | The single most distinctive feature of the English sentencing system is the breadth of discretion that is conferred on sentencers at all levels within the system . |
| 8 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |
| 9 | The single most impressive finding of the 1981 Census in relation to population distribution was the massive decline in population sustained by Britain 's larger cities over the previous decade . |
| 10 | It 's the single most popular type of make-up available , and even women who were no other cosmetic will buy lipstick at some stage in their lives . |
| 11 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 12 | This work , which sought to strip Christianity of its supernatural trappings and present Jesus as ‘ an incomparable man ’ , was perhaps the single most talked-about book of its age . |
| 13 | If there is a single most important component of this course it is the notion that parents , not professionals , solve problems . |
| 14 | The yardages for each tournament are the single most important function of a caddie . |
| 15 | Having pretty much failed in the single most important objective of Systems Application Architecture , that of creating a single user interface for all its disparate operating system families with Common User Access , IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products group is trying again , this time with the Workplace Shell of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 16 | The single most important element of a page is its overall design , regardless of , but strongly influenced by , its content . |
| 17 | Perhaps the single most important misjudgement of Palmerston 's career was his failure to anticipate Prussia 's drive to dominate the North German states . |
| 18 | perhaps the single most important effect of the Cuban revolution was that it proved beyond all doubt that Marxism was not an exclusively European doctrine and that it could be applied successfully in Latin America . |
| 19 | The single most important move of the 1938–50 period was the extension of selection to the entire age group , and the 1944 Act actually made this more commonplace , but it did not create the move — only forty-three LEAs , less than half , considered the whole group throughout the selection process , another forty LEAs qualified children by excluding those who did badly in a first exam as part of the selection procedure . |
| 20 | The single most important aspect of the policy has been its introduction of training and enterprise councils — TECs , in the acronym-speak that clogs up all talk of the labour market . |
| 21 | He said the government 's road building policy was the single most important aspect of policy responsible for loss of rural land . |
| 22 | Sudden infant death syndrome — the sudden , unexpected , and unexplained death of an apparently healthy baby — remains the single most important cause of death in the United Kingdom of children aged between 1 and 12 months . |
| 23 | From the 1830s it became the single most important cause of the death of children , peaking at four deaths per thousand children per year aged under 15 ; at worst , 30,000 deaths a year in the 1860s . |
| 24 | Twenty years later , in an article in The Times , Treasure was even more categorical : ‘ I believe the tax system is the single most important cause of the lack of desire to improve efficiency that exists in our economy today . ’ |
| 25 | Despite the devastation which could be caused in peace-time , Gregory saw civil wars as being the single most important cause of disruption . |
| 26 | We also know that alcohol is the single most important cause of violence , not just directly , but also through the abuse committed on children by violently drunk parents . |
| 27 | This is the project on which astronomers in the US can pin their hopes , for it will undoubtedly be the single most important telescope of the 1980s . |
| 28 | The election of Gorbachev 's deputy in the party leadership was awaited as probably the single most important indication of how the party and Gorbachev 's leadership would develop after the congress . |
| 29 | It was here , in August , that Owen met Siegfried Sassoon [ q.v. ] , the single most important encounter of his brief life . |
| 30 | In Jesus 's epoch , Alexandria was the most eclectic , ecumenical and tolerant city in the whole of the Roman Empire — the single most important crossroads of the Mediterranean 's trade-routes and , as such , a kind of central clearing-house not only for goods , but for modes of thought as well . |