Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 2 | But no general account of methodology can reasonably assume that the investigator is a native speaker or has native speaker-like intuitions , and for an outsider at least identification involves finding evidence that a linguistic unit varies in a systematic way between speakers , or between different speech styles of a single speaker . |
| 3 | The binary pixel information is compressed by RLL coding which can define repetitions of a single bit value , or of a repeated bit pattern . |
| 4 | It is followed by a setting of Petrarch 's ‘ Hor ch'el Ciel e la Terra el vento tace ’ which begins with a breathtaking suggestion of total silence by means of more than twenty repetitions of a single triad . |
| 5 | Recently , several examples have been discovered where multiple images of a single quasar are seen . |
| 6 | Several pairs of quasars have been detected which have virtually identical red shifts and are separated by small angular intervals : these pairs are now interpreted as twin images of a single quasar . |
| 7 | It seems inescapable that two images of a single quasar have been observed . |
| 8 | The books I am speaking of are , among others , books which pursue the idea of an escape from personality and from society , and in which personality and society are seen — as in Zuckerman 's letter to Maria — to be aspects of a single threat . |
| 9 | Ultimately , most physicists hope to find a unified theory that will explain all four forces as different aspects of a single force . |
| 10 | At some very high energy , called the grand unification energy , these three forces would all have the same strength and so could just be different aspects of a single force . |
| 11 | Debord , for example , proclaims : ‘ The critical position later elaborated by the Situationists has shown that the suppression and realization of art are inseparable aspects of a single supersession of art . ' |
| 12 | In SR the energy and the linear momentum are two aspects of a single entity , the four-momentum . |
| 13 | The idea of Simultaneity first appeared in the preface to the Futurist exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery : it had its origin in Boccioni 's series of States of Mind , and was primarily the Bergsonian concept that a picture must be a synthesis of what is remembered and what has been seen , a synthetic visual impression comprising not merely the various aspects of a single object , but any feature related to it , physically or psychologically . |
| 14 | This is not only the case when a discourse is constructed by two people interacting face to face ; it may also hold within the words of a single speaker . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is amazing that Sir Leon Brittan should still refer to these ‘ costs ’ long after Pöhl has said quite clearly that they are irrelevant : ‘ the repeated reference to alleged huge savings in transaction costs for the currencies of a single currency area are not in the least convincing ’ . |
| 16 | These may be entirely contained within the borders of a single country even though their effects are transnational . |
| 17 | Experimental measurements from an n-dimensional system are often only of one variable : however , it is possible to reconstruct an attractor from the values of a single variable , as in Figs 2.2–4 [ 13 , 21 , 33 ] . |
| 18 | The event gave him a place in world headlines , and he was the first classical pianist to win a platinum disc for sales exceeding a million copies of a single record , for his recording of Tchaikovsky 's first piano concerto . |
| 19 | Leigh concluded that the brooches he considered were the products of a single workshop although there may , yet , be other reasons for the degrees of similarity he observed ; it is these which are actually being assessed , not whether or not they originated from one workshop . |
| 20 | The principal conclusion of the study was that all three of the series of square-headed brooches which were isolated ( two of silver and one of copper-alloy ) , the majority of keystone garnet inlaid disc brooches , of silver , and at least some of the garnet inlaid buckle plates , some of silver and some of copper alloy , are the products of a single workshop . |
| 21 | While he suggests in apocalyptic tones in The Problem of Method that this process of self-consciousness is at last beginning to take place , and that civil , foreign and colonial wars are becoming apparent as different forms of a single class struggle , Sartre also admits that the divorce between theory and praxis which ensued under Stalinism has generally prevented any clear self-consciousness among the masses . |
| 22 | Several petrographic uses of CL involve comparisons of CL intensities and colours between samples or within different areas of a single sample . |
| 23 | In a recent article in the Financial Times , Sam Brittan pointed out quite succinctly : ’ At present the UK already has , as a member of the hard ERM , most of the obligations of a single currency without all the advantages . |
| 24 | Shipping freight cabotage was discussed by EC transport ministers in late December 1990 , when they agreed to liberalize , with effect from 1993 , all shipping except for oil tankers , very small coastal freighters , and ships which plied only between the harbours of a single country . |
| 25 | Dalton never saw an atom , or the effects of a single atom . |
| 26 | If we are outside , we shall not enjoy the advantages of a single currency or have the investment in this country of those companies — our own and overseas firms — which want to invest in the core of Europe and enjoy full access to all that goes on in Europe . |
| 27 | ‘ The advantages of a single market without exchange controls or currency fluctuations between members must be quickly regained so as not to throw away our achievements and the attractiveness of our island for investment . ’ |
| 28 | It can already distinguish the signed texts of a single author from those written by other scribes . |
| 29 | It is no longer a one-to-one relationship in which the counsellor concentrates exclusively upon the feelings and needs of a single person , for other people must now be considered . |
| 30 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |