Example sentences of "a single [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being such an advocate of the family , it strikes a sad note , in his biography , that Lord Joseph 's own four children are unmentioned , or that , after 30 years of marriage , he separated from his wife to become , in effect , a single parent himself . |
| 2 | For example one person I worked with was a single parent who had five dependent children living with her , and no other adult appeared to be involved . |
| 3 | Twenty-four-year-old Alicia Smith , a single parent who lives at Foxglove Drive , had spent the evening with relatives in Four Marks after attending a funeral in the Slough area . |
| 4 | Speaking as a single parent who was left with children of twelve and eight , it is very hard and I often think it would be a good thing if social workers were better able to explain to young girls who are left with babies , just what it 's going to be like . |
| 5 | Well I was given a really big chance a while ago , it was by a single parent who was an editor of the community newspaper , I 'm now the business and production manager , I 'm a single parent , my wee boy 's three . |
| 6 | Can you amend the proof of 1.3.10 to obtain a proof of this conjecture — or can you supply a single counterexample which will kill off the conjecture ? |
| 7 | Once you have a single colour it 's okay |
| 8 | He went home with a single man whose mantelpiece was crowded with framed family photos — partners , holidays , weddings , babies , graduations , christenings ; the man ( who was gorgeous ) told Boy that he worked in a photo processing lab , and that none of the photos were of his own family or lovers , but were all stolen . |
| 9 | There was n't a single man who was n't there all spruced up and well turned out at this awkward hour . |
| 10 | What court is going to award custody of a five-year-old girl to a single man who 's constantly overseas on business ? |
| 11 | Precision is often needed if respondents are not to be confused ; to ask a person about his or her ‘ family ’ could mean to a single man his parents and siblings , but to a married man his wife and children . |
| 12 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 13 | If a newspaper commissioned a political poll based on the opinion of a single person it would immediately become a laughing-stock . |
| 14 | For a single person it 's seven pounds a week , more than three hundred and fifty pounds a year . |
| 15 | The LTA is operating in what is today a very professional tennis world , yet on all the LTA 's innumerable committees , there is hardly a single person who has had personal experience of playing top class international tennis at the highest level since the game went ‘ Open ’ in 1968 . |
| 16 | During my researches for this series I did not meet a single person who thought that teaching excellence receives adequate recognition in the medical world . |
| 17 | But it was depressing , too , because he did not know a single person who occupied them . |
| 18 | They will not stop a single person who is not in one of those categories from being able to qualify for the single person household discount . |
| 19 | The Labour party fears that somewhere there might be a single person who is also a millionaire who could benefit from a single person 's discount , so it is absolutely against the proposal . |
| 20 | The second related issue is whether it is appropriate to set down a single structure which puts topics under specific headings , given the interdisciplinary nature of the subject . |
| 21 | On the other , it is a disadvantage to have the risk of a large volume of money tied up with a single customer who could be a slow payer . |
| 22 | We collect together most of the information erm in a single brochure which we call ‘ Services for Industry ’ . |
| 23 | Since it gives only a single output there will be no distinction between the zero in its output due to an edge being properly located in its receptive field and a zero due to the absence of an edge altogether . |
| 24 | Even when a clear objective has been achieved ( and by a clear objective I really mean a single sentence which everybody can carry in their minds and which everybody can understand ) , it is necessary to ensure that this is known , understood and accepted at every level of the organization . |
| 25 | Berger sets this story up by saying : ‘ Sometimes to refute a single sentence it is necessary to tell a life story ’ : one villager mistakenly claims that ‘ Boris died like one of his own sheep , neglected and starving ’ , whereas the admittedly ill-tended flock was in fact killed by lightning . |
| 26 | He raised his good arm and struck the glass with his elbow , a single jab which shattered the window . |
| 27 | Most mixer taps simply use the hot and cold knobs to control flow and temperature , but some modern one-hole mixers have just a single lever which does both . |
| 28 | As each element may consist of one or more of the elements of the line below , it is possible for a sentence to consist of a single clause which consists of a single phrase which consists of a single word . |
| 29 | He said that although there was a single clause there were in effect two separate covenants each taken with the plaintiff but for the protection of the respective business of each company . |
| 30 | ‘ If we had lost a single segment everyone could have been killed , ’ Mackenzie says . |