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1. And we should not study an English word singly
2. Each of those countries, perhaps, taken singly, could afford it but a small part, either of its subsistence or of its employment ; but all of them taken together, could afford it both a great subsistence and a great employment
3. Each of them, however, taken singly, contributes often but a very small share to the maintenance of any individual of this greater number
4. Did you lose if the terrorists became the new government because of their popularity amongst the voters even if they lost every singly battle? Yes, I would say you lost
5. When these conditions occur, singly or in multiples, the social pulse can be taken according to their density and distribution along the scale of values suggested above
6. “The ones you know well enough to match their names with their faces can be contacted singly or in selected groups
7. They would sometimes drop by singly, and sometimes in small groups of no more than five
8. In an instant the surge had ebbed back out of the gorge; there was a chaotic, confused swirl of fighting, horsemen wheeling and smiting singly and in clusters, and then the emir went down with a Kshatriya lance through his breast, and the riders in their spired helmets turned their horses down the valley, spurring like mad and seeking to slash a way through the swarms which had come upon them from the rear
9. They don't always come singly
10. about or sitting on the grass, singly and in small groups
11. pages, singly or stapled into small files, and often to be found in the oddest
12. Singly controlled robot spacecraft, built in a torpedo shape with metal handles welded onto the casing for the robots to hold onto, fill the cargo hold
13. all other animal predators singly except for the bear species
14. They then drove out to Northcote to visit Murray’s printer friend, Murray shook his friends hand and introduced Shirl as his wife, he then explained that they needed two sets of papers each and two sets as man and wife, the printer without a word passed over two forms which asked for details, name, date of birth, where they were married and when, Shirl’s maiden name, in fact all the basic information normal people possess, then the printer sat them down in front of a camera that took four prints at once and took a photograph of them together, then a photograph of each of them singly, all this without a word from the printer, when the printer had finished studying the final prints and made his selection Murray, never missing a trick, held his hand out for the remainder of the photograph’s,
15. ask for the demonstration of any technique on the left, either singly or in combination
16. been purposely informal during the session, not singly anyone out by using their name, even though he knew the name of every one that would be performing, having read their bios
17. In the past, cytotoxic drugs were given singly but now doctors tend to give a combination of cytotoxic drugs to treat cancers such as and Hodgkin’s disease
18. Your path must be singly stepped, but no path releases one from the uni verse
19. The beasts had now gathered around full-circle, and they darted in and out, teasingly, singly or in groups, grunting and screeching and thumping their fists on their chests and on one another
20. And when the glasses were brought there was another ceremony--a clinking of Herr Dremmel's glass with each glass in turn, his heels together as in the days of his soldiering, his body stiff and his face a miracle of solemnity; and before drinking he made a speech, the Asti held high in front of him, in which he thanked the ladies for their good wishes on behalf of his betrothed, Miss Ingeborg Bullivant, whose virtues he dwelt upon singly and at length in resounding periods, before proceeding to assure those present of his firm resolve to prove, by the devotion of the rest of his life, the extremity of his gratitude for the striking proof she had given before them all of her confidence in him; and every sentence seemed to set another and a heavier seal on her as a creature undoubtedly bound to marry him
21. Singly and in groups they came at safe times, such as after breakfast, to Eaton Terrace to reason with Lucy, too much worried to remember that you cannot reason with a person in love
22. • He can open all types of accounts either singly or jointly with any other
23. There can be no hesitation in affirming that any ordinary reader of Greek coming to the New Testament for the first time in the age of the apostles, would, as Archbishop Whately supposes, have taken the words now in question, singly, and still more in their striking combination, in the sense in which they are used in the preceding extracts from the Phaedon
24. For one teacher of Christianity who will independently examine his doctrines singly and collectively by the standard of the apostolic writings, there are at least hundreds who will humbly subscribe in early life an unquestioning assent to whatever is proposed to them as the condition of the priesthood or ministry, when sanctioned by the Church,—and scores in our own time who will deny the authority of the apostles altogether
25. What are governments to do with such a problem? Surely, such a concern should be addressed by governments not singly but as a collective entity
26. Primarily, the parent chooses to care for the child singly because of adoption, divorce, surrogate motherhood, extramarital or premarital pregnancy or artificial insemination
27. No white-haired man was there now; but, the three men were there who had gone out of the wine-shop singly
28. That, in the prison he had found a self-appointed Tribunal sitting, before which the prisoners were brought singly, and by which they were rapidly ordered to be put forth to be massacred, or to be released, or (in a few cases) to be sent back to their cells
29. Gines de Pasamonte made answer for all, saying, "That which you, sir, our deliverer, demand of us, is of all impossibilities the most impossible to comply with, because we cannot go together along the roads, but only singly and separate, and each one his own way, endeavouring to hide ourselves in the bowels of the earth to escape the Holy Brotherhood, which, no doubt, will come out in search of us
30. Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,
31. Singly, and in small companies of two and three, they emerged from the dull, colourless, sunless distances ahead as if the supply of rather roughly finished mechanical toys were inexhaustible in some mysterious cheap store away there, below the grey curve of the earth
32. I am speaking, as before, of injustice on a large scale in which the advantage of the unjust is most apparent; and my meaning will be most clearly seen if we turn to that highest form of injustice in which the criminal is the happiest of men, and the sufferers or those who refuse to do injustice are the most miserable--that is to say tyranny, which by fraud and force takes away the property of others, not little by little but wholesale; comprehending in one, things sacred as well as profane, private and public; for which acts of wrong, if he were detected perpetrating any one of them singly, he would be punished and incur great disgrace--they who do such wrong in particular cases are called robbers of temples, and man-stealers and burglars and swindlers and thieves
33. Such an one may be compared to a man who has fallen among wild beasts--he will not join in the wickedness of his fellows, but neither is he able singly to resist all their fierce natures, and therefore seeing that he would be of no use to the State or to his friends, and reflecting that he would have to throw away his life without doing any good either to himself or others, he holds his peace, and goes his own way
34. "Here; singly to your face, or in the presence of your nation
35. He met everywhere, with eyes riveted on his own, heads erect and nostrils expanded, as if each individual present felt himself able and willing, singly, to redress the wrongs of his race
36. All the same Bloom (properly so dubbed) was rather surprised at their memories for in nine cases out of ten it was a case of tarbarrels and not singly but in their thousands and then complete oblivion because it was twenty odd years
37. Men had been dropping in singly, or in twos and threes: the higher officials of the province, engineers of the railway, sunburnt and in tweeds, with the frosted head of their chief smiling with slow, humorous indulgence amongst the young eager faces
38. come singly, and the affairs of the reorganization of the native tribes, and of the irrigation of the lands of the Zaraisky province, had brought such official worries upon Alexey Alexandrovitch that he had been of late in a continual condition of extreme irritability
39. Soldiers came singly and in pairs and dozens and they were always hungry
40. Like the pigeons of St Mark's, they were everywhere, under my feet, singly, in pairs, in little honey-voiced congregations, nodding, strutting, winking, rolling the tender feathers of their necks, perching sometimes, if I stood still, on my shoulder; until, suddenly, the noon gun boomed and in a moment, with a flutter and
41. Over the white box of the Exxon station darted the shadows of the birds, singly, one after another, as though launched by some catapult on the far side of the roofline
42. And it’s really not cool to know that stretching all the way from here to Canada, if you ever reach it, will be a string of stops like forty miles apart where any witness might have seen him, a Negro with green hair dragging another boy, singly gloved and clutching his stomach, to right where you see that pink spatter, Officer
43. But tonight there was no light in the Lighting District, only dark, vaguely hominid shapes moving singly or in pairs, and then, drawing close behind, sirens, smashing, the odor of flame
44. For behold! the storm comes, and now all friends should gather together, lest each singly be destroyed
45. stealing up the slopes, singly or in long files, keeping always to the shade
46. These tools may be applied in a strict, quantitative manner, either singly or in combination with other indicators, or they may be used as discretionary inputs into a more extensive process
47. A large operator or investor acting singly cannot often, in a single day's session, buy 25,000 to 100,000 shares of stock without putting the price up too much
48. Furthermore, an investment might be justified in a group of issues, which would not be sufficiently safe if made in any one of them singly
49. Investors have not fully appreciated the superior protection accorded by the combined responsibility of the 12 carriers as compared with the liability of any one of them singly
50. We have suggested, however, that the profits of the most recent year, taken singly, might be accepted as the gage of future earnings, if (1) general business conditions in that year were not exceptionally good, (2) the company has shown an upward trend of earnings for some years past and (3) the investor’s study of the industry gives him confidence in its continued growth
