Example sentences of "small [noun sg] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the three kinds , mountain streams are least productive , with the smallest standing crop of invertebrates and least variety of species . |
| 2 | A MASSIVE shake-up among Scandinavian insurance companies was unleashed yesterday with a £244m bid by Sweden 's Skandia for the smaller Hafnia group of Denmark . |
| 3 | Yacht with full fuel , gas , water , clean linen ( no towels ) , a small starter pack of consumables and all necessary charter papers . |
| 4 | Like LOEX it operates on a subscription-fee basis , but unlike LOEX it has a relatively small catchment number of libraries which might subscribe , and because of this its ability to maintain itself as a self-financing clearinghouse is in question . |
| 5 | The small money value of profits earned on minor sales can be so quickly absorbed by overheads that the whole exercise is hardly worthwhile . |
| 6 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 7 | A small hooligan element of dog owners sent threatening letters to her , made obscene phone calls and smashed her windows . |
| 8 | In a segmental perfusion model , however , prostaglandin E 2 has been shown to decrease small bowel absorption of PEG and water . |
| 9 | Furthermore , both cAMP and cGMP have been suggested to play a part in proliferative and inflammatory processes , which are known to occur in the small bowel mucosa of patients with coeliac disease . |
| 10 | In 1749 , for example , Lord Panmure was asked to obtain a small revenue post of tide waiter for a brother of one of the Angus freeholders . |
| 11 | Five miles [ 8 km ] away by sea , but nearly twice as far by road , lay the small fishing town of Teignmouth , consisting of about 40 houses , clustered round a Norman church , and with a wide , gently sloping shingle beach , where today a broad promenade overlooks stretches of firm sand . |
| 12 | The small fishing harbour of Perdika , facing the Peloponnese , has no water of its own at all . |
| 13 | Madame Gautier held the small silver tray of chocolates out for Ellie , who unable to resist , got up and helped herself to another one . |
| 14 | A small holding force of Empire troops was swept aside and the Orc army descended into the plains of Averland . |
| 15 | The open shingle beaches also support a small winter population of waders , mainly Turnstone , with a few Purple Sandpipers and numbers may increase in really cold weather . |
| 16 | This carefully restored farmhouse with original beams , a stone-flagged floor and open fire is located just three miles outside the small lakeland village of Caldbeck . |
| 17 | Accounting errors Of course , the retailer will do all he can to limit the amount of shrinkage , but he will probably allow for a small percentage loss of profit when working out his budget . |
| 18 | It 's only a small body kind of thing . |
| 19 | Job franchising in the characteristically small business world of haulage contracting may prove very successful . |
| 20 | Uproar breaks out in Nigeria during 1988 , when officials discover that an Italian ship has illegally dumped toxic waste at the small delta port of Koko . |
| 21 | On Saturday the pupils could enjoy the austere pleasures of going into the small granite town of Elgin , something Richard did not enjoy but decided to do because his injured feet ruled out most alternatives . |
| 22 | Other deities recorded are the Mother Goddesses , the Fates , Mercury and Hercules , while a small lead statuette of Diana came from the supposed temple site in Keays Lane . |
| 23 | Hartmut , a friend from Trinity College , Bristol , a gifted personal evangelist and now a curate , was ringing to see if we would go and work with him in a small commuter suburb of Upminster in Essex . |
| 24 | A small metal bowl of sulphur powders still burned in the hearth to eradicate whatever pestilential airs the vapourizing vinegar might have missed . |
| 25 | He was born into a lower-class family in the small seaside village of Papudo where his father caught conger eels for the tourist restaurants . |
| 26 | Next morning , from the Paseo de Gracias station , I took the first express to Zaragoza , passing through the small seaside town of Sitges , which was in later years to become a British hooligan holiday playground . |
| 27 | It was one of three separate lines each belonging to a different company laid to the small cathedral city of Wells between 1859–70 . |
| 28 | The ponds hold the usual species associated with this type of habitat , with Great Crested Grebes and Tufted Ducks nesting on the larger ponds and lakes , and the small breeding population of Teal in the county largely restricted to this habitat or the smaller streams and marshes , rarely being found breeding on the river levels . |
| 29 | The BBC 's attempt to record a guitar recital in the small parish church of St Helen , at Brant Broughton , in Lincolnshire , was interrupted by a sparrow 's chirruping from the eaves . |
| 30 | There , taped to the bottom , was a small plastic bag of amphetamines . |