Example sentences of "[prep] small [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After small parts in movies like Roxanne , Hollywood Shuffle and Colors , his much-anticipated major feature debut in the schlockbuster The Last Boy Scout was a big disappointment . |
| 2 | Emphasis on better design , better training , individualised care , more interest relatives ' needs , input from the rehabilitative professions , and the resiting of long stay care nearer to patients ' homes could greatly enhance care and morale , allowing such wards to look after small numbers of severely disturbed residents extremely well . |
| 3 | Faith and I also flew around the pattern and it felt great despite small problems with the tape out on the aircraft to protect the patches stitched on in Bangkok . |
| 4 | Not a great deal of intervention took place , and most that did was directed towards small companies in ‘ high-tech ’ sectors , which tended to be located in the south of England . |
| 5 | All of these are geared towards small groups of adult riders whose ages generally range from those in their early twenties up to fifty , sixty and even beyond . |
| 6 | The speech mentioned official financial support in the past year for " those institutions directly involved in combating unemployment and poverty " and for " the establishment of small projects for graduates " . |
| 7 | And so I think that it 's easier to make criticisms of small matters in detail , but it is not easier to make a serious defence cut . |
| 8 | At the other end of the scientific spectrum , organic chemists were reluctant to extend their studies beyond compounds consisting of small molecules with not more than perhaps 50 or 100 atoms . |
| 9 | The only blots on the landscape were a pair of small shoes beside the Aga and a nylon ski-jacket airing on the back of a chair . |
| 10 | The curved branches get bigger , and each acquires a couple of small appendages in generation 8 . |
| 11 | The two-lipped flower has two pairs of small teeth on the upper lip . |
| 12 | ( Serve on top of small helpings of potatoes mashed with low-fat spread and low-fat yoghurt . ) |
| 13 | In a paper written in 1905 , a few weeks before the famous paper on special relativity , Einstein pointed out that what was called Brownian motion — the irregular , random motion of small particles of dust suspended in a liquid — could be explained as the effect of atoms of the liquid colliding with the dust particles . |
| 14 | When a liquid freezes , the molecular character of its surface is not too greatly changed and the energy of the surface remains much the same although the surface tension is no longer able to change the shape of small particles by rounding them off into drops . |
| 15 | " Whatever the method the reason was the same , the amalgamation of a lot of small holdings into sheep farms , and the result a very different pattern of agriculture . |
| 16 | One unusual feature is a pair of small motifs on the display to show which size disc is in place . |
| 17 | The fact is , over the past few months , I have been responsible for a series of small errors in the carrying out of my duties . |
| 18 | Thames Water is one of the biggest water companies in the world ; Cholderton and District Water Company near Salisbury is run by a man and his wife , and supplies water to a couple of small villages on a private estate . |
| 19 | It is also quite normal for the rugs of small villages to be marketed under the name of the nearest large rug-producing town , providing of course that there are strong similarities between their rugs ; items produced in villages around the Persian city of Hamadan , for example , may be collectively referred to as Hamadans . |
| 20 | The earlier years of the twentieth century saw a number of small experiments in combating unemployment by providing publicly subsidized work . |
| 21 | Pieces from other vendors include Louis XV marquetry bureau of small dimensions by Bernard II Van Risenburgh , estimated at £70–90,000 ( $125–160,000 ) , and a mid-eighteenth-century pair of Venetian painted arte povera centre tables , expected to sell for £60–80,000 ( $100–140,000 ) . |
| 22 | This he applies also to mountains , holding the combination of small hills with varied textures are more beautiful than grand magnitude . |
| 23 | I buy those packets of small reels of thread which are often only 50p or £1 a pack . |
| 24 | A report to the social services sub-committee says : ‘ The elderly and people with mobility problems would be disadvantaged if these proposals led to the closure of small pharmacists in rural communities within the county where there is no convenient alternative . ’ |
| 25 | A series of small works on panel of Chesil Bank , Dorset , share Nicholson 's sensibility to place : very localised , they seem to respond emotionally to the landscape and convey the artist 's pleasure at being there . |
| 26 | He showed both boys how to lift the sorrel 's hoof between their knees , and suddenly there was a line of small boys at his side , all waiting hopefully for a turn . |
| 27 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 28 | The British Empire was built on the unshed tears of small boys in preparatory and public schools . |
| 29 | A group of small boys behind one of the goals attempted to dispel their own personal depression by waving blue scarves and chanting familiar slogans . |
| 30 | He could hear the whoops of small boys from the garden . |