The phrase "a single debate is" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the nature, significance, or outcome of one specific debate.
Example: "A single debate is often enough to change public opinion on critical issues."
Alternatives: "one debate is" or "a lone debate is".
"Not once in the last nine months in which I served in the shadow cabinet have I heard a single debate being led by John McDonnell about a minister for Labour or about rights at work.
As Bill Minutaglio writes in his authoritative biography, "First Son," the Bush people made sure the single debate was held in remote El Paso, "the hardest city to get to in Texas," that it was moderated by one provincial reporter, that all tough journalists were banned from the TV studio, and that it was "held on a Friday night in the middle of high school football season".
We haggle over the small things because sometimes the big ideas are too large to be contained in a single debate, and it's foolish to even try.
Conversely, Clinton will not be able in a single debate to get more voters to think she is more trustworthy.
There has been significant political attention paid to individual parts of the care system, adoption and residential care, but this must be a single debate about all the options available to those of us fulfilling our corporate parenting role for these vulnerable children.
Many have criticised the idea of a single debate with seven people as being unlikely to delve into any issue in sufficient depth – but the reaction of the general public on Twitter has largely been more straightforward.
Especially since, in the next breath, he suggests that it takes a single debate to ferret out those who aren't ready for prime time.
A single debate, months away from any voting, can easily be exaggerated.
NO SINGLE FIX The debate is not over and sensible proposals are emerging in the Senate to strengthen cost control.
A danger in the debate is that nuclear is often portrayed as a single, undifferentiated energy source.
