Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] a single [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best sorted sediments approximate to a single size and have low σ 1 , values ( Table 3.5 ) . |
| 2 | These four varieties are ideal small garden plants , as they grow on a single stem and do n't need pruning . |
| 3 | And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck . |
| 4 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 5 | It stresses that it wants to keep rules to a minimum , but argues that the Community has to do something to help its weaker parts adapt to a single market and to meet workers ' worries about what 1992 will mean for them . |
| 6 | If we advance to a single currency and monetary and political union , will we , as Members of Parliament directly answerable to the electorate , have responsibility without authority ? |
| 7 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 8 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 9 | As the Central Policy Review Staff ( 1977 , p. 22 ) noted , most circulars ‘ relate to a single service and are drafted and circulated by the single department responsible ’ . |