Example sentences of "small [noun sg] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident was a small measure of how the balance of power , and relevance , within Virgin had shifted . |
| 2 | Seven riders out of a small field of only 11 were Farnham Road Club members on the weekly ‘ 10 ’ last Saturday morning . |
| 3 | He turned to Sally-Anne who was clinging to his arm , and said , ‘ I know a small chop-house near here , and when you have eaten you may tell me what happened , and how you came to be on your own , under attack . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They are a relatively small branch with only six staff but Manager Tony Hoskins and his team are constantly on the lookout for potential Royline users , ’ said Anne . |
| 5 | Members of this genus are common parasites of the small intestine in very young animals and , although generally of little pathogenic significance , under certain circumstances may give rise to a severe enteritis . |
| 6 | In November 1642 Ford led a small force of hastily impressed locals on a rapid march to attack Lewes . |
| 7 | It also has a very attractive promenade and a small harbour from where boats set off to go up and down the lake . |
| 8 | Neon Tetras — A small Characin with very bright blue and red colouration which must only be kept in shoals and preferably in acid water . |
| 9 | At the turn of the century , Kenneth Grahame could confidently give the water vole a leading role in The Wind in the Willows : almost everyone knew this small rodent from almost daily acquaintance . |
| 10 | Keep a small piece for later . |
| 11 | Just a small piece for now ? |
| 12 | This is , however , a small programme of only Z$5 million per annum . |
| 13 | The attack on Warrington may simply mean that there remains intact in that area of England a small cell of perhaps no more than two activists who escaped detection and arrest in operations following the gasometer explosion . |
| 14 | He then followed Duncan through the small terminal to where they could look out of the window at the tarmac ramp , on to the military side , where Duncan had seen the transporter . |
| 15 | This draper 's ploy was a bit of a con , for unless asked specifically for the farthing change , the assistant handed you a small card with perhaps three or four safety pins or a piece of paper with ordinary pins attached . |
| 16 | More often than not a shoal of big bream , particularly a small shoal of very big bream , does not remain in a swim for long . |
| 17 | But after three months hard work , publicity and campaigning there remained only a small core of about 30 people regularly using the club . |
| 18 | And that concludes a small session for today . |
| 19 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 20 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 21 | Paper This is bulky , but easily produced , so it is most appropriate for a small quantity of highly confidential material . |
| 22 | In all , this incidence of reported problems can not be said to suggest much more than the occasional misunderstanding , difficulty or other problem which must mark a small proportion of virtually every type of consumer transaction . |
| 23 | The presence of M paratuberculosis in a small proportion of apparently normal colons suggested a previously unexpected alimentary prevalence of this animal pathogen in the human population . |
| 24 | She ends up sitting on him , facing the small window from where the children can now be heard playing , so that ail he can see is her lean and sculpted back , the ridge of her spine showing like knuckles on a fist . |
| 25 | There is also a small sector of very expensive élite schools which teach in Spanish and English , used mainly by upper and upper-middle class families who aspire to send their children abroad to university . |
| 26 | University is where a small range of closely related subjects is studied in depth . |
| 27 | A very small illumination of about 1450 , and not much more than 1½ inches square , provides an insight into how the body was wrapped . |
| 28 | THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry . |
| 29 | The king 's son followed Mitsi , who was a small mouse with very long whiskers . |
| 30 | Only microscopic number of reproductions hand on the walls of ordinary peoples ' houses , and in terms of the national population those people who really ‘ like ’ them — as opposed to professing admiration for them — must be very much of a minority , so Bacon 's millions must have come from institutions and a very small body of very rich patrons . |