Example sentences of "a single [noun] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alternative criterion for assigning lexical units to a single lexeme is that their senses should be local senses belonging to the same sense-spectrum . |
| 2 | Even a single writer is seldom able to reproduce exactly the same writing . |
| 3 | If carriage governed by a single contract is performed by successive road carriers , each of them shall be responsible for the performance of the whole operation … under the terms of the consignment note … . |
| 4 | A single day is not long enough to illustrate fully the roles played , or the variety of jobs undertaken by the UK Infantry Battalion of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force ( Land ) — AMF(L) . |
| 5 | ALTHOUGH the world 's largest sporting event to take place on a single day is called the Indianapolis 500 , the track is actually in Speedway , Indiana , a smokestack-America suburb of small frame houses , storefronts and industrial plants . |
| 6 | At the top a single man is suspect . |
| 7 | One hundred and twenty five years on , we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did , and still not a single case is known to me of a complex organ that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications . |
| 8 | The study of even a single society is considered to be extraordinarily difficult because of the complexity of social relations and the obvious problems of trying to generalize about people , their groupings and the structures within which they act . |
| 9 | As the nuns themselves often said to us : ‘ Girls , a single person is useless to God and country . ’ |
| 10 | This is particularly necessary where a single person is responsible for several languages . |
| 11 | Publication to a single person is , impliedly , insufficient to constitute the offence . |
| 12 | However , a single structure is insufficient when dealing with an interdisciplinary subject . |
| 13 | A single foal is born after a gestation period of a year . |
| 14 | A single license is $345 . |
| 15 | A single license is $200 . |
| 16 | It has been shown that a single instruction is sufficient ( in theory ) for a general-purpose computer ( Van der Poel 1956 ) ; however , instead of a theoretically sufficient instruction set , what we require is an instruction set which provides a practical set of operations in which applications can be programmed . |
| 17 | Unlike true appendages , processes of the body-wall are by no means invariably represented by embryonic counterparts ; they may or may not be segmentally arranged , they may be originally paired or unpaired , and more than a single pair is sometimes borne on a segment . |
| 18 | It seems to follow that just as the notion of the meaning of a single sentence is indeterminate , so the notion of two sentences having the same meaning is indeterminate . |
| 19 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 20 | For cattle , a single strand is generally enough if the shock is strong enough and the animals properly trained to respect it . |
| 21 | For any stepping rate limit the motor torque can be read-off the torque/speed characteristic and the corresponding rate of acceleration calculated from : Acceleration = motor torque/inertia In general the motor is able to decelerate faster than it can accelerate , but if a single p is to control both acceleration and deceleration the ramp rate must be shed to the acceleration rate . |
| 22 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 23 | Flat rate charging by a single zone is too simplistic . |
| 24 | Only a single kid is born at a time ; twins are extremely rare . |
| 25 | The firm now also offers floating licences , permitting access to Liken by any user on a Sun-based network ; a single licence is $700 , a floating one is $900 . |
| 26 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 27 | Since the reflectance values for the area making up a single image are recorded in four wavebands , the total volume of data for a single scene is 30408528 bytes , since each pixel requires one byte of storage . |
| 28 | Ships start next month ; a single adaptor is $6,500 ; package pricing for a workgroup of four , including adaptor hardware , software and networking hub , is under $10,000 per workstation . |
| 29 | To suppose that all such predicates could be replaced , or reduced , to a single type is plain nonsense . |
| 30 | But on Cyprus a single hole is impractical ; cost and difficulties mount rapidly with depth , so instead a number of holes ( probably five ) will be drilled in Cyprus . |