Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pipe is continued round the carriage between the flooring ; and the water becoming hot , the heat is communicated through a small brass grating in the floor , the temperature of the carriage being regulated by the ventilator above alluded to — |
| 2 | The UN Environmental Programme , UNEP , has , since 1972 , developed as a small and well-respected research and information organization with headquarters in Nairobi , Kenya . |
| 3 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 4 | As the plains became higher and colder , so another memorable Andean beast appeared — the guanaco , country cousin to the llama , brother to the vicuña and the alpaca , and properly regarded as a small and humpless camel . |
| 5 | Estimates of the numbers of people who turned out to greet her ranged from 1,500 to 30,000 , but even this higher figure was regarded as a small crowd by Manila standards . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) Oesophageal sensitivity to acid was preserved in patients with impaired peristalsis and oesophagitis. ( 4 ) Reflux symptoms lasted longer in patients with prolonged oesophageal acid exposure but were still reported for a small fraction of the total acid exposure time . |
| 7 | The ten-year-old Morris Minor rolled like a small cherubic tank down the short drive of her bungalow in Nether Oldfield . |
| 8 | The coffin was carried into a small sitting-room and Gabriel was left alone with it . |
| 9 | 2/Using a piece of white paper handkerchief , rolled into a small ball , wipe out some lines radiating from the horizon . |
| 10 | The royal standard of England no longer fluttered on its pole , a sign that Henry and Wolsey had already departed with a small advance party though Doctor Agrippa had remained , waiting for us in our chamber . |
| 11 | Although a two-state success/failure branch for components and systems is often used , this may be inadequate when we have to examine partial successes or failures ; this treatment for the plant might well produce thousands of sequences , so these are usually grouped into a small set of typical sequence states that will be bounding in terms of the consequences one is looking for . |
| 12 | Korth , for instance , showed that within 20 metres of the point of origin , pellets dropped into a small stream start to lose some of their bone , by 80 metres the pellets start to break up , and by 200 metres all the bone is lost . |
| 13 | He crossed the road , thumped across a pasture , then dropped into a small valley where a tangle of thorns grew either side of a trickling brook . |
| 14 | 1.7 TGAT recommended that the attainment targets should be grouped in a small number of profile components in order to make the reporting of results comprehensible and manageable . |
| 15 | The girl wearing the pigtails , Amanda Thripp , stood quite still , watching the advancing giant , and the expression on her face was one that you might find on the face of a person who is trapped in a small field with an enraged bull which is charging flat-out towards her . |
| 16 | Perhaps always an alarming noise for a man trapped in a small space . |
| 17 | Disappearance of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies after treatment with corticosteroids has been reported in a small number of patients . |
| 18 | The solid mixture is then dissolved in a small amount of the solvent and added to the top of the column . |
| 19 | The loop at West Croydon was retained for short workings and one was installed round a small traffic island at Boundary Road Corner , Wallington , also at Waddon Station . |
| 20 | The group remaining in Shakang Harbour were in a sad state , confined in a small space in a filthy harbour , with fishing boats leaking diesel and oil onto the surface of the water and continual dumping of rubbish , particularly plastics , from the shore . |
| 21 | Males may spar and even fight when confined in a small aquarium without sufficient territory being available to the individuals , but they rarely cause trouble with other species . |
| 22 | Just as well we 're on our way home — there 's nothing worse than being confined in a small space by bad weather . ’ |
| 23 | The theory originates from experiments with rats in which the animals were confined in a small space and given electric shocks . |
| 24 | And gathering chickweed out of the neep the chickens and that for green feed when they needed and they were confined in a small small space where there was no green grass to feed them on . |
| 25 | A few of his rare essays in landscape are included in a small show of oils , aquatints and pencil drawings by Giorgio Morandi at Baldacci-Daverio also on until the 30th . |
| 26 | These were contained in a small round tin : condoms , commonly known as ‘ french-letters ’ . |
| 27 | ( ii ) Transfer the testis to fresh 2.2% sodium citrate solution contained in a small glass Petri dish and gently pull out the tubules . |
| 28 | Genes also tell us that native Americans originated from a small group of migrants who crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia . |
| 29 | But it was precisely the kind of initiative which could be expected from a small , isolated and frustrated group of political activists . |
| 30 | Bargaining is then confined within a small group , and there are no pressures from a large number of competing sources or bidders to oblige people to present their positions in a fully honest way . |