Examples of single
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In that case the grammar would have a phonotactic filter permitting /0/ to form nuclei only with single-x nonconsonantal melodies.
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This would provide a qualitative description of the mixing of single-particle and collective effects.
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Analysis of single channel records indicate that the effect is to favor transition to a substate rather than to physically alter the conductance pathway.
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In terms purely of logic and expediency, the argument in favour of a single language is difficult to oppose.
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The census returns indicate that many of those single solitaries - though some of the married ones also - were inmigrants.
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It is difficult to find a single refugee who thinks that they will be returning home any time in the near future.
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The mapping between surface and lexical levels is reduced to a single function call and two simple conversions from text to binary, and vice versa.
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Each point represents the mean values of these 2 variables measured on 2 large hooks from each of 10 protoscoleces from a single isolate.
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The net free energy change then represents the difference between several large-value terms, and no single component can be said to dominate.
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The surface density of streptavidin molecules was sufficiently small that each of the pinning sites represented a single streptavidin-biotin cross-bridge.
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The text is unique, as it represents the work of a single author, who cogently articulates a systematic approach to psychiatry.
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The selection of a single lexical candidate is thus either random or based on frequency or familiarity of the lexical forms.
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The single observer visually estimated cover to the nearest 10% at ten randomly chosen points within a 5 m radius of each sampling position.
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This single unified spirit is accorded multiple roles.
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If there is no such syllable, the syllable with a single coda consonant is stressed.
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Combined stresses are more likely to be encountered in the field than single stresses.
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Plots were surrounded by a single guard row between them.
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Within a single state and society, by contrast, politics was supposed to be about the common good.
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In contrast, the fixed ranking theory can only produce sonority-driven stress systems with a single set of conflated categories.
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If no single algorithm has all these properties, then no algorithm can strictly dominate all the others.
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The data were analysed as case studies and for common themes, as expressed in single words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even entire documents.
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Many patients need to take several different drugs for single or multiple conditions with an increasing chance of suffering harmful interactions or side effects.
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To conduct such work, information derived from single census-type listings is not sufficient.
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I believe that the normative responses to reasoning tasks as well as the systematic deviations from them can be explained within a single reasoning system.
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to make problems, difficulties, or disagreements less serious or easier to solve, usually by talking to the people involved
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