Example sentences of "[verb] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anya surreptitiously scratches a small reddish patch on her wrist . |
| 2 | When that disk is in a drive the drive head to read the disk which causes a small fire inside disk drive ha ha ha ha , let the fuckhead try and fix that . |
| 3 | Otherwise , Mr Kaifu has won a small but notable victory . |
| 4 | The situation had begun to deteriorate markedly after the elections of February 1936 returned an coalition of Liberal republicans , socialists , anarchists , communists and Trotskyists to power , even though the right-wing parties had won a small popular majority . |
| 5 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 6 | They contributed a small sum every week to buy the plants , build the pond and buy a lawn mower and two church benches , and they made their collective garden themselves . |
| 7 | Despite chest trouble and the serious illness of his mother , he was , as the letter provided a small piece of evidence , much happier about his own work . |
| 8 | It is always advisable to try a small area first with the finish that is to be used , or damp a small area with water , as this will give some indication of the change in shade that will occur . |
| 9 | She encouraged him to try a small amount of soft food and to take nourishing foods such as soups . |
| 10 | The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe . |
| 11 | In 1920 the Imperial Bureau of Mycology was established at Kew under the directorship of Butler , who , after assembling a small staff and laying plans for the abstracting journal , the Review of Applied Mycology , visited plant pathologists in the United States , and subsequently Commonwealth countries , to obtain support for the Bureau , which flourished . |
| 12 | A mother ship accompanies a small fleet of yachts ; sociable , good for the less experienced . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's not real pollution , ’ said an officer , noticing a small , discoloured discharge , and , by way of justifying his inaction , ‘ It 's not ‘ pollution ’ to put a little in . |
| 14 | Will this also drive the protein skimmer , or do I also need a small powerhead ( Rena C20 ) as in the instructions ? |
| 15 | Unlike the normal DIP switches , you do n't need a small pointed object to change the settings , as the switches themselves are large and easy to manoeuvre with a fingernail . |
| 16 | I see from today 's papers that DOL will only need a small operation to remove a blood clout on his achellies . |
| 17 | But what we 're proposing here essentially , is to say we 've got a seventy thousand pound contingency not specifically allocated , we will reduce that down to thirty thousand , but within that thirty thousand we will have to deal with requests we get to increase grants to people who 're already in receipt of grant support , and also we 've also found it extremely helpful to have a small reserve so that when a body comes along and says I would do this for you , but I do need a small grant in order to do it , and you 're effectively buying a hundred thousand pounds worth of service for ten thousand pounds , that you have actually got a ten thousand pounds to put it in , rather than funding everyone , so that 's basically the policy behind it Chair . |
| 18 | No , you 'd need a small one . |
| 19 | do we need a small towel actually in the overnight bag ? |
| 20 | I perhaps have worked out , I need a clerical assistant and so forth , I might need a small van to actually take my widget on a Friday , to Widget , or Big Widget factory , or whatever it is I do with these widgets . |
| 21 | Finally , on turning a corner , they entered a small area in which a large slab of stone stood beside a table covered in smaller fragments . |
| 22 | At the top of the hill the bridle-path entered a small copse . |
| 23 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 24 | Yet the next sentence which ostensibly continues the argument re-introduces a familiar theme under the guise of the critique : ‘ After all , at least antisemites restrict their hatred to one group of people representing a small , if powerful , minority of the world 's population ’ , while Ms Dworkin ‘ spits hatred at half the entire human species ! ’ |
| 25 | The 99,500-strong constituency embraces six villages , including Yarm , Eaglescliffe and Thornaby , which have a strong sense of their own identity , and also covers a small area of Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | Charles was glad to settle by Harold 's log fire , and to accept a small whisky and water . |
| 27 | This must be not only encouraging but also perturbing as we are only able to accept a small number for tuition . |
| 28 | LABOUR leader Coun John Williams says ( HAS March 30 ) Darlington council is prepared to accept a small loss of under-used parking space at Russell Street to secure ‘ employment opportunities . ’ |
| 29 | Meanwhile , tint a small amount of the reserved fondant yellow for the door . |
| 30 | A nut and bolt fixed the handle shafts to the top section : the blade spanner incorporates a small spanner for the nut , so only a screwdriver was needed here . |