Example sentences of "[noun] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wood , Cecil had carved into a tree trunk a small swing for a child that had since grown and died in Vietnam . |
| 2 | As Luce strolled past one of the restaurants a small table became free . |
| 3 | The two main bedrooms a small back room living room er drawing th front room and the kitchen . |
| 4 | As a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to even write home about . |
| 5 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 6 | I like to make to Mr Hopkin is private citizen a small gift of Frenloudji book , which is the only abject in my possession and to give him handshake for last time . |
| 7 | It will become in the mind a small place that is a sanctuary . |
| 8 | At the back of her mind a small demon was saying : ‘ Why should n't he be upset ? |
| 9 | For one thing it was too babyish — Moses Arkwright would never do anything with so little risk attached to it — and for another , deep in the dark of his mind a small seed of moral uneasiness had begun to germinate . |
| 10 | As the promised rain swept in from the sea Penry had climbed the cliff path from Lee Haven with his bundle of driftwood , but as he reached the Neck a small patch of bright colour had caught his eye far below . |
| 11 | Doing away with heft commissions , not having to wait six weeks or more to be paid , and , most rewardingly , meeting the people who actually look at and buy artworks , make the inevitable disruption a small price to pay . |
| 12 | Erm was Llaneilian a small place in those days ? |
| 13 | Terry Rourke sold me for enough dollars to buy himself and his true girlfriend a small business . ’ |
| 14 | Within fifty minutes a Metropolitan Police helicopter swung in across the fields , guided by the radio of the squad car , to deposit on the road behind the cars a small , bird-like man called Dr Barnard , the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met , a man who , thanks to the bomb outrages of the IRA in mainland Britain , had examined more explosion scenes than he would have wished . |
| 15 | So he and Elaine Lee-Teng hit upon the device of offering the chick a small coloured bead to peck . |
| 16 | Out of her mating with their books a small book of her own would be born . |
| 17 | For the final tape a small production team of seven from the two schools was formed and they spent an extra day on this activity . |
| 18 | You will see alongside the Obituaries to Orton Chirwa a small article about the massacre of 300 Sudanese in Juba . |
| 19 | Just behind the car a small gap in the curtains reveals a door which leads into the motel apartment . |
| 20 | In the porch of a wooden shack a small boy dangled a land crab on the end of a makeshift fishing rod ; it clawed the air , defensive and gaudy . |
| 21 | The Austrian Habsburgs had made efforts in the same direction from the end of the sixteenth century , when the custom developed of sending with each internuncio to Constantinople a small number of boys ( Sprachknabe ) to learn Turkish . |
| 22 | He watched the bicycle pass right by the Stones ' house , the tail light a small , red glow that faded from view . |
| 23 | Since retiring in 1973 , I have been able to continue my early morning devotion , from which has emerged every six months a small book of personal prayers or musings about prayer . |
| 24 | In the same study a small group of six carcinomas of the stomach showed comparable results . |
| 25 | From the pocket at the side a small flower petal was peeping out . |
| 26 | At the entrance a small boy and a youth were waiting . |
| 27 | In DETA a small alternating electric field is applied to the sample and the electric charge displacement Q is measured by following the current . |
| 28 | Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat , |
| 29 | Miss Fergusson thanked him , and offered in return a small parcel of sugar , which was gravely accepted . |
| 30 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |