Example sentences of "in a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life in a small village could be deadly dull , and Henry had been absolutely charming when he chose to be . |
| 2 | In a small garden two excellent weeping ornamental and habitat shrubs , the Kilmarnock willow , Salix caprea pendula , and Cotoneaster ‘ Hybridus Pendulus ’ , make ideal trees up to 10ft high . |
| 3 | Susan walked in a small , formal garden . |
| 4 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |
| 5 | I am on a swing in a small park with my brother . |
| 6 | Where , that is , if not in a small workroom in up-state New York ? |
| 7 | If the Christians obtained their enlarged Lebanon , they would only be in a small majority over the Sunni and Shia Muslims . |
| 8 | Terry Mulloy , chairman of the governors , who has a five-year-old son at Lady Jane Grey , says that if children , while being taught reading in a small group , got bored they would be allowed to wander off and do something else . |
| 9 | The left is in a small minority in every bit of the party that matters — the executive , the Shadow Cabinet , the party conference . |
| 10 | In a small airport on a Hebridean island , a group of passengers await their plane . |
| 11 | The Edmond family is reported to have been running crime rings , in a small way , for generations . |
| 12 | This last quality was , however , manifest in his second ( and best ) film , Le Coeur Battant ( 1961 ) , a witty and enchanting comedy about a couple in a small seaside resort — she ( Francoise Brion ) waiting for her lover to arrive and he ( Jean-Louis Trintignant ) gradually falling in love with her but refusing to admit it even to himself . |
| 13 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |
| 14 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 15 | STAGGERINGLY , an unknown Shakespeare play has been unearthed in a small computer in The Independent . |
| 16 | Van Der Meulen was an austere , patriarchal figure , deeply imbued with the rigidly Calvinist outlook he had acquired from his father , a schoolmaster in a small village near the German frontier . |
| 17 | I work in a small shire force with a special responsibility to preserve public order on Friday and Saturday nights . |
| 18 | All would be different , they believe , if the majority of decent and honest Catholics could escape the grip of fear , and they define the role of community relations police in West Belfast as attempting , in a small way , to loosen the Catholic community from the stranglehold of the paramilitaries , as the commentary on a police promotional video stated : ‘ The effort of trying to win the people 's minds and hearts away from terrorism is personified in the Community Relations Branch , whose members regularly attend meetings involving civilian bodies , public representatives , and discuss problems such as vandalism . ’ |
| 19 | I met up with Pat in a small room at the front of the house tucking into a breakfast of fried eggs and an obscure piece of meat that took up about half of his mess-tin . |
| 20 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 21 | But her outlook was subtly different , say from that of Edward Heath , whose father was a carpenter in a small town in Kent and who , like Mrs Thatcher , went to a local grammar school rather than the private boarding schools favoured by most Tory leaders . |
| 22 | For the last weeks of his curacy he left the lodgings and hired a room in a small hotel up Mount Pleasant . |
| 23 | In the 1940s we lived alongside a cinema , in a small town lost in the southern pampas of Argentina . |
| 24 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 25 | So much that is inexpressible in our relationship survives in memories of late afternoon empty cinemas in a small northern town in the 1950s . |
| 26 | One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films . |
| 27 | You can either be very timid and start in a small way , building it up gradually and expecting to make a profit in the first year . |
| 28 | He was the grandson of a traditional Kikuyu smith who made spears and knives in the late nineteenth century in a small village about twenty miles from Nairobi . |
| 29 | They stress such things as population density , circumscription in a small area , conquest by outsiders of the diffusion of the idea of divine kingship . |
| 30 | In a small enclosure three reindeer sniff the air , detect dog , either from the dogs themselves deliberately left many yards away , or from our clothing , and shuffle nervously as we approach . |