Example sentences of "a single [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an example , an octahedral d 7 ion with a filled t 2g ( lower ) set of d orbitals and a single electron in the doubly-degenerate e g upper set would distort in such a way that the e g levels split , such as by an elongation along the z-axis , giving a tetragonal ligand arrangement as in Fig. 6.26(c) . |
| 2 | It is rare to find a single horn in a small orchestra . |
| 3 | In Sunderland a single parent in her late teens told me . |
| 4 | Instead of a sliding scale to determine what income a single parent in work can keep without losing benefit , a standard £15 cut-off point has been introduced . |
| 5 | The shop will be on a single floor in the central atrium of the new £27m Hallam University city centre complex — Campus 21 , designed to take the university into the 21st century . |
| 6 | The one-off posters featuring slogans that became familiar parts of the electoral joust also appeared on a single billboard in south London for photo-opportunity launches . |
| 7 | Further evidence of the effectiveness of 1 Squadron 's operations was a single day in February 1956 when seven of the eight Lincolns carried out two bombing sorties , dropping 196,000lbs of bombs in the 24 hour period . |
| 8 | I can not remember his taking a single day in bed . |
| 9 | But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur . |
| 10 | To illustrate , suppose that all dividend payments are concentrated on a single day in each quarter . |
| 11 | Opposite was a photograph of a large country house and the lines : ‘ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife . ’ |
| 12 | You 're on your own , a single man in a smart , public place . |
| 13 | Jane Austen said , ‘ It is a truth universally acknowledged , that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife , ’ said James . |
| 15 | Such knowledge forms a single system in each individual person so that his actions and his accounts are performances drawing only upon one corpus of knowledge . |
| 16 | As the research in intelligent knowledge-based systems has progressed steadily over the past decade , it has become increasingly clear that there are classes of complex problems which can not be solved by a single system in isolation ; they require several systems to work together interactively in a co- operative framework . |
| 17 | ‘ I doubt there is a single child in the entire school who has read that book , and here you are , an unhatched shrimp sitting in the lowest form there is , trying to tell me a whopping great lie like that ! |
| 18 | Is there honestly a single person in the country , the Prime Minister included , who could have dared to predict that the Conservatives would end up with the largest number of votes ever recorded in a British election ? |
| 19 | The rates quoted are for a single person in 1989/90 . |
| 20 | A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools . |
| 21 | The 1988 poverty line is Can$11,600 for a single person in cities , or Can$8,600 in rural areas . |
| 22 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
| 23 | Prompted no doubt by Danchet 's keeping to a single mood in each episode , Campra 's large-scale tonal contrasts are sharpest in Hébé . |
| 24 | But the genes in the parent pack do n't pass to the daughter pack in a single vessel in which all have an equal share . |
| 25 | The no. 1 right hand light must be on ( as well as the jacquard light when you start knitting ) and you have to start by knitting a single row in the background colour from right to left , then change to the second colour . |
| 26 | If you do n't start in the correct way with a single row in the background colour , you will find you 've knitted a ‘ nonsense ’ . |
| 27 | The light , a single bulb in an ethnic basket , was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table . |
| 28 | It is a plain building with loading doors in one end wall , and the wheel arch and a single window in the front wall . |
| 29 | Two different sentences in one language can both be correct translations of a single sentence in another . |
| 30 | In fact , there was not a single Han in sight . |