Example sentences of "[adj] small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cuckney challenges the view that there are vast sums of money locked up in pension funds floating around the City that could be diverted towards helping struggling small firms to grow . |
| 2 | It needed an operating system , which , as no doubt everyone knows by now , was supplied by an enterprising small firm called Microsoft , and became known as MSDOS ( MicroSoft Disk Operating System ) . |
| 3 | It is a matter of deep concern to many small businesses — it is killing some of the most enterprising small firms — that they are not able to obtain proper payment of debt , often from larger and better-funded institutions than themselves . |
| 4 | A keen wind was puffing small clouds across the pale blue sky , blotting out the sun and sending miniature showers against his windscreen . |
| 5 | In the area around Cirencester the still infant river only powered small mills , unlike the much larger ones encountered further along its route towards London . |
| 6 | There will also be spontaneous small group work , with the teacher maybe intervening in role , or staying out of role , commenting , spotlighting work for others to see . |
| 7 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |
| 8 | Wondering what to do with your empty small space ? |
| 9 | A wheelbarrow mounted version can be switched between different small engines in a farm or industrial plant . |
| 10 | Trim the top large piece on one side so that it slopes to join with the first small piece , and trim the very top small piece in the same way . |
| 11 | The paraphernalia of capitalism — the banks , mortgages , moneylenders , credit , exchange rates , inflation , Jewish competition , Polish labour — these were all things that German small business had learned to fear and mistrust as its economy had , without the buffer of empire , ridden the rollercoaster of boom and slump between the Franco-Prussian wars and the Great War . |
| 12 | A recent survey showed that two-thirds of French small businessmen had never even heard of patents or trade marks . |
| 13 | For a couple of minutes they made sickbed small talk while Maxim tried to decide just how Blagg was . |
| 14 | Charming small regency hotel , sympathetically restored to keep the original features and character of its period . |
| 15 | Now is the time to knit those charming small presents and decorations and to create your own Christmas magic . |
| 16 | This is a charming small town , or perhaps overgrown village , with just the right kind of simple hotels to tempt you to stop off here . |
| 17 | ECGD Buyer Credit — this is not very useful for one-off small orders . |
| 18 | This strategy of setting up interactive and interdependent small groups is effectively what is happening in whole group drama . |
| 19 | Although no-one can deny the impressive growth of small electronics firms that make , for instance , personal computers ( see ‘ The Great British Small Computer ’ , p 639 ) the consultants said the IT industry : • is unimaginative in designing new products • lacks marketing ability • has insufficient skills in distributing goods • does not sell enough overseas • lacks enough big companies with comprehensive product and marketing strategies . |
| 20 | The great British small computer |
| 21 | Cambridge is the home of the British small computer . |
| 22 | The Manual of Ornamental Fish is a fish disease handbook aimed at vets by the British Small Animal Veterinary Association at . |
| 23 | One of the most interesting small towns of the Mittelland illustrates this . |
| 24 | A 15–20 minute drive by car ( included in the price ) leads to quiet beaches and , a further five minutes up or down the coast , are a stretch of interesting small resorts from Bari to Brindisi . |
| 25 | And now that we 've started to look after the building we 've actually discovered some very exciting and interesting small clues about the building . |
| 26 | In all of these places you will find a wide variety of interesting small animals . |
| 27 | Multiple nuclei describes a big city that has expanded and absorbed small towns and villages and has thus created outlying service areas . |
| 28 | The accommodation for experimental animals consists of a 10-room small animal block for rodents , and a series of covered yards , loose boxes , isolation and environmental rooms suitable for larger domestic animals . |
| 29 | He smiled like an engaging small boy . |
| 30 | Superposed on this will be variation due to the continual small movements of the growing plant . |