Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 2 | The left hemifield advantage reported by Kimura ( 1966 ) for the enumeration of dots was subsequently extended to include localisation of a single dot presented in any one of 25 different spatial positions ( see also Bryden , 1976 ) . |
| 3 | In Manitoba , despite all-party agreement , the position reached an unexpected impasse as the ratification vote was blocked by the filibustering of a single Cree Indian legislator . |
| 4 | In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past . |
| 5 | Such a decrease is greater than expected for the loss of a single interaction between CP 96345 and the NK-1R ( for example , 30-fold reduction of CP 96345 affinity in the H197A mutant ) , suggesting that other amino-acid residues may also participate in interactions with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 . |
| 6 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |
| 7 | Consequently , we are always dealing with the effects of brain injury , and those effects probably extend beyond the mere loss of a single component . |
| 8 | The loss of a single seat would mean the Tories surrendering control for the first time since nineteen seventy four . |
| 9 | The repossession epidemic is largely the result of a single factor — the record interest rates during 1989 and 1990 ( see the main graph ) . |
| 10 | If such varied symptoms can be the result of a single defect , or of one or two related defects , it is quite conceivable that a homoeopathic remedy , acting to eliminate the block , can have equally far-reaching effects . |
| 11 | The idea of background knowledge enables us to see that these two possibilities will occur together as the result of a single experiment . |
| 12 | It can involve almost any system of the body and yet there is evidence that it could be the result of a single gene defect , or defects in a limited number of genes . |
| 13 | In this account Althusser has challenged the idea that radical social changes such as revolutions — which he treats as a blueprint for change in general — are the result of a single contradiction in society . |
| 14 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 15 | Well what this has involved me in has been a long study of a single school . |
| 16 | They may , for example ( to paraphrase the original submission ) either broaden their areas of study in order to learn the principles and methods of several disciplines or concentrate on a more extensive study of a single discipline . |
| 17 | Pointing out that his recommendations are based on the detailed study of a single variable , she cites the work of Albo ( 1970 ) , who concludes from his examination of several different variables in Cochabamba Quechua that the sensitivity of variables to sample size is not constant . |
| 18 | A case-study involves the in-depth study of a single example of whatever it is that the sociologist wishes to investigate . |
| 19 | This is not a book about the whole topic of miasmas and disease , and it certainly does not cover the entire ‘ pre-industrial age ’ : it is a study of a single collection of reports by doctors and public health inspectors in early 17th-century Tuscany . |
| 20 | But a general election is not about the future of a single party . |
| 21 | It provides continuity , not by the imposition of the rule of a single class or caste , but by furnishing a means by which power can pass peacefully from one class to another without the upheaval or disorder of revolution . |
| 22 | It is arguable that biological , economic and sociological studies might be more effectively and productively pursued and co-ordinated under the aegis of a single organisation but this view has not prevailed in Great Britain . |
| 23 | All the victims were shot from close range in the stomach and chest ; the crime of a single madman according to Israel 's Prime Minister . |
| 24 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 25 | Such figures are not fanciful — the example of the motor car is a useful demonstration of the vast effect of a single range of efficiency improvements . |
| 26 | The presence of equally spaced peaks in histograms is evidence of quantal behaviour , and the peak spacing gives a direct measure of the quantal size ( the postsynaptic effect of a single quantum ) . |
| 27 | The effect of a single cell 's suddenly stepping out of tandem could parallel that of HIV within the human body — an aggressively private agenda that compromises and ultimately destroys the entire host system . |
| 28 | Our attempts at determining both the electric field strength and the potential have started with considering the effect of a single point charge and have been followed by an integration for obtaining the total effect of the infinitely long line charge . |
| 29 | At the far end it was possible to see four mock Grecian columns , painted white and glowing in the light of a single bulb . |
| 30 | Later that day , much later , when Shirley and the other office staff have gone home , and Vic sits alone in the administration block , working in his darkened office by the light of a single desk lamp , he gets a call from Stuart Baxter . |