Example sentences of "for a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In financial arrangements , neither of these offices approaches the Treasury with a request for a single budget for all their functions . |
| 2 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 3 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 4 | How can you bear to relinquish the helm , even for a single minute ? ’ |
| 5 | In colliding plane wave problems , what is essentially a coordinate singularity for a single wave is transformed into a fold singularity prior to the collision by the presence of curvature singularities at the points and . |
| 6 | The Larkspur , California-based Bristol Group has come up with what it calls an affordable database and project planner for Sparcs : Power Base is priced at $400 for a single license ; $1,000 for a server license and six packs for $1,500 . |
| 7 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 8 | For a single inductor or capacitor of negligible loss , the latter being more common , the inductance or capacitance can be deduced from the measured impedance provided that the frequency of the current is known . |
| 9 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 10 | For a single portion , bake for 45–50 minutes . |
| 11 | The quantities for most of the meals on the following pages are given for a single portion . |
| 12 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 13 | BUYING a computer system for a single hotel or restaurant , or for a chain of units , involves far more than ordering and taking delivery of powerful foxes loaded with clever software . |
| 14 | Now , it was responding to what de Gaulle had called the solemn pact which was at the moment being sealed ‘ in the suffering of all and the blood of the soldiers ’ between France and the peoples of the Indochinese Union and to his belief that ‘ not for a single hour did France lose the hope and the will to recover free Indo-China ’ . |
| 15 | He opts for a single fragment of European culture and , by way of compensation , he must at once reaffirm that ideal of personal and cultural wholeness which on various grounds he now sees immediately symbolized in Schopenhauer — and not least because Schopenhauer , for all his scorn of the contemporary world , unquestionably belongs to it . |
| 16 | For a single guard it is often wiser to use your knife as any noise can alert many more enemies including guard dogs . |
| 17 | Nonetheless it said that a relatively small licence ( for the code to be implemented for a single architecture , for example ) will still come to a six-figure dollar sum . |
| 18 | Delegates backed calls for the state pension to rise to half average earnings for couples and one third of average earnings for a single pensioner . |
| 19 | The exception , of course , is those less well-off pensioners who are disabled or over 80 , where the order provides for additional increases of £1 a week for a single pensioner and £1.50 for a couple , over and above the 7 per cent . |
| 20 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 21 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 22 | The resource loading can be shown for a single assignment or the entire plan , with actuals , plans and overloads by time period . |
| 23 | Life for a single parent was never easy — struggling to cope with the demands of a new baby , while at the same time trying to hold down a job . |
| 24 | The coil-helix transition for a single base stack in a single strand helix is visualised schematically in Figure 1A . |
| 25 | Those few casual workers in the catering industry who do seem to work on a more or less continuous , almost full-time basis over a long period for a single organisation ( the plaintiffs in the oft-cited " O'Kelly case " ) , tend to possess skills which that organisation , and indeed other potential employers , value . |
| 26 | For example , a number of humanities courses allow the student to postpone a decision to opt for a single subject or interdisciplinary course , or a major , joint or minor programme until the beginning of the second year . |
| 27 | You sat there , Robin Banko , and you wrote such total rubbish they could n't give you an A , B or C for a single subject . |
| 28 | If you live in a conventional two-storey house , the best place for a single alarm is above the bottom of the staircase . |
| 29 | This wo n't work for a single motif , but how about a single motif in black , knitted against a striped background of bright jewel colours , or white on pastel stripes ? ( for this , the card does n't need to be reversed of course . ) |
| 30 | ‘ To look at me , no one would take me for the Miracle-Worker , ’ Gabriel persisted , and he grinned and rubbed his short head of hair which had barely grown long enough for a single curl . |