Example sentences of "[prep] a small [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appeared to have been driven by plug & feather and is located at the end of a small gulley on a plateau high up on Swallow Scar on the easterly flanks of " Wetherlam at about 1800 ft. alt . |
| 2 | Burden plodded through the rain from estate agent to estate agent and he at last found Moat Hall , listed in the books of a small firm on the outskirts of the town . |
| 3 | He showed severe left neglect on the conventional measures of line bisection and line cancellation , and in a new measure ; when asked to detect the presence or absence of a small crack on either side of two-dimensional block shapes , he detected the crack for 37/40 shapes with a crack on the right , but for only 5/40 shapes with a crack on the left . |
| 4 | FIG. 2 a , How the vertical size ratio ( VSR ) of a small element on a fronto-parallel surface ( measured in angular units ) varies with cyclopean eccentricity , e , and the normal distance to the surface , D . |
| 5 | As the fronto-parallel surface approaches infinity , the vertical size ratio of a small element on that surface will always be close to 1.0 for all eccentricities ( because the distances from the two eyes are nearly equal ) . |
| 6 | b , How the horizontal size ratio ( HSR ) of a small element on a fronto-parallel surface ( measured in angular units ) varies with e , and D . |
| 7 | ‘ His hair had been clipped as closely as possible to the scalp , with the exception of a small patch on the crown of the head , which was pulled down over the forehead to form a fringe . ’ |
| 8 | Soon three spiders were inching their way along the wall towards a small window on the ground floor . |
| 9 | Adapting his subject to his captive audience , he plunged at once into parliamentary small talk about the newly appointed committee , bobbing up and down between Berowne and Dalgliesh like a small craft on bumpy water . |
| 10 | He kissed his fingers in a flamboyant sort of way and swept off , his quiff bobbing above the heads of the other guests like a small ship on a turbulent sea . |
| 11 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 12 | Whichever you know if you take the cost some cost twelve hundred pound for a full page others cost three hundred and fifty and some cost even two hundred and fifty pound for a small strip on the golf cards . |
| 13 | It will tend to lie doggo in the light and , because it is flat , it can easily be mistaken for a small mole on the shin . |
| 14 | Three lessons came from this raid : the need for means to identify friend from foe , always difficult in night actions but particularly so for a small party on a hostile shore ; the problems of coordinating secret operations with regular forces — friendly Spitfires had delayed the boats for an hour in mid-Channel on their outward voyage before establishing their true identity ; the difficulty of pin-point navigation , the third point , was the most crucial of all . |
| 15 | Brownie helper Barbara once more came to the rescue and during the next week brought her daughter 's cassette tape-recorder to my home where , in spite of my nerves and her dim knowledge of recording , we managed to get the music for a small sequence on tape . |
| 16 | Writing about a small bust on a column , a thin sculpture in a series of four busts of which the others were fuller in form , she comments that ‘ the extremely thin proportions of the head contrast with the solidity of the base . |
| 17 | Breeze , with a small boy on either side of her , drew in breath after breath of the wonderful air , and looked across at the horizon , where sky and water met . |
| 18 | And then they used to put them in er er small boxes out in the field and er I used to go round in the woodlands and cut some you see , put them in the ground with a small branch on them and then we used to make some string and loops out of erm wire to go round their feet you see . |
| 19 | Jean Revers , who had dramatically improved sales figures at Shrewsbury , was invited to run the Bath shop , a beautiful old narrow , timbered building on three floors with a small flat on top which the Ashleys were converting , tempted by the possibility of staying there themselves . |
| 20 | Now we are considering our own Shell suit with a small logo on the front . |
| 21 | He greeted her easily , with a small kiss on her cheek . |
| 22 | Eve 's room in the Dublin convent had no bedside table with a small radio on it . |
| 23 | They left Hobart with a small party on a government schooner bound for port Davey , but got no further than Recherche Bay before being prevented by stormy weather for a fortnight . |
| 24 | I HAVE a china cabinet with a small disc on the inside door marked ‘ Guaranteed Barget London ’ . |
| 25 | Some of the more important happenings are listed in chronological order throughout the following pages , starting from the early days of a town with a small harbour on the Water of Leith and becoming a modern port serving a city and its hinterland . |
| 26 | Uniquely placed in the centre of the street , it was in line with a smaller lighthouse on the seafront , which together guided ships down the Wyre Channel . |
| 27 | The structure is two identical cuboids , each with a smaller cube on top , added later to confer greater importance to the monument . |
| 28 | The patented plan is to feed data about the relevant airports into a small computer on the flight deck before take-off . |
| 29 | Then each Girl put her heels into a small square on the stage floor , connecting up with the power source . |
| 30 | Rosa 's insides turned over , all her carefully fostered haughtiness resolved itself into a small sweat on her upper lip and a moistness in her palms . |