Example sentences of "of a single [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman she seemed to have become over the course of a single weekend — just forty-eight hours — bore no resemblance to the vague mental picture she had always , possibly complacently , had of herself . |
| 2 | But in the space of a single weekend — I fear — ’ |
| 3 | He discovered that in order to isolate and demonstrate the importance — or otherwise — of a single factor , he must take more work on board than he had intended : he must attempt a complete English political history from the battle of Sedgemoor ( 1685 ) to the Peace of Amiens ( 1802 ) . |
| 4 | The repossession epidemic is largely the result of a single factor — the record interest rates during 1989 and 1990 ( see the main graph ) . |
| 5 | Here we present a simple hierarchical model which also relaxes the assumptions of constant returns to scale and perfect competition , although we revert to the assumption of a single factor , labour , which is taken as the numeraire . |
| 6 | Her early education had been poor because of the misconception amongst her teachers that language ability and intelligence were somehow different facts of a single concept , and it was only in later life , with the help of her husband , that she 'd been able to make up on the intellectual deprivation of those early years . |
| 7 | But the most surprising fact about this is that all these events took place during the deposition of a single graptolite zone . |
| 8 | at the twist of a single tap . |
| 9 | Flapped Formed like a rolled consonant but consisting of a single tap only , eg flapped /r/ . |
| 10 | We have only examined the legal issues from a narrow perspective ( Walden 1993 ; Gränström 1993 ) , they could be the focus of a single seminar alone ( see Postscript , 317 ) . |
| 11 | But though composed in ignorance of rival works , many of these writings were seen at the time , naturally and unhesitatingly , as the product of a single mood and of a single set of mind . |
| 12 | Obviously the gallery owner makes a calculated risk by devoting wall space entirely to the work of a single artist . |
| 13 | It seemed unlikely that he could be as devastated by the death of a single patient as Julia had made out in her letters , but then she had never really understood him . |
| 14 | Despite their constant preoccupation with temporal phenomena , the Maya never attained the idea of time as the journey of a single bearer with his load . |
| 15 | This is probably the only occasion when the use of a single stack promotes poor program structure . |
| 16 | ‘ In the midst of this huge model of an Empire on which the sun never sets , the centre of public attention is this little house which the flame of a single candle could gut in five minutes . ’ |
| 17 | It turned easily and she pushed the door open , stepping at the same moment into the kitchen and the rosy glow of firelight and the small flame of a single candle . |
| 18 | Recall of a single fact , or the carrying out of a single act |
| 19 | It will be argued that one of these types of variation involves the selection , by the context , of different units of sense , while the other type is a matter of contextual modification of a single sense . |
| 20 | To summarise : a lexeme is a family of lexical units ; a lexical unit is the union of a single sense with a lexical form ; a lexical form is an abstraction from a set of word forms ( or alternatively — it is a family of word forms ) which differ only in respect of inflections . |
| 21 | Soon he saw that his way of presenting the threat in terms of a single territory that should not be torn apart was not understood by the people . |
| 22 | The majority of cases with sustained coverage involved young girls ( including a couple of cases where the victim was under 10 ) who were usually alone and the focus of a single attack . |
| 23 | It is estimated that the cost of such a system of local government would be around £1 million , against the £18 million projected savings associated with the creation of a single council for Edinburgh and the Lothians . |
| 24 | But Yugoslav experience has shown that self-management , and especially socialist self-management , is incapable of solving this problem , even within the confines of a single country . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The current study , restricted to the geology of a single country , has identified four relevant theses from American universities during the period , but no attempt has been made to search for theses on Scottish geology produced in France , Germany , or any other country , because it is felt that : |
| 27 | These may be entirely contained within the borders of a single country even though their effects are transnational . |
| 28 | What we mean by a grapheme is the written representation of a single phoneme — so , for example , the PH in CHOOPH , is a single grapheme because it represents a single phoneme . |
| 29 | Both in psychology and in society at large , masculinity and femininity have long been conceptualised as bipolar ends of a single continuum . |
| 30 | I ca n't think of a single occasion in which this might come in handy . |