Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school itself is described as ‘ on a healthy eminence surrounded by a small court and garden . |
| 2 | The aim is to develop a strong export industry based on a small number of processors who are not heavily involved in intervention schemes . |
| 3 | We slipped along smoothly in the darkness towards Stornoway harbour accompanied by a small petrel which fluttered , bat-like in the glow from our starboard light . |
| 4 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 5 | However , for a horse shut in a small yard , or especially a stable , boredom is very distressing as there is little it can do to break the monotony , and it will become anxious . |
| 6 | There are two pockets on each side with those annoying bottom-to-top zippers and a full length main zip covered with a small stormflap . |
| 7 | Oxfam had begun as a tiny war-time committee organised by a small group of friends , including the then vicar of the parish of St Mary 's … |
| 8 | The mean is an unstable statistic influenced by a small proportion of the population with large numbers of partners ; sampling strategies may under-represent minorities with multiple partners ( for example , prostitutes ) ; and sexual partnerships occur outside the sampled population through migration and travel . |
| 9 | Tea/supper Wholemeal bread spread with a small jar of anchovy paste and topped with a chopped hard-boiled egg . |
| 10 | Subsequent to the date of the surrender , according to local farmers , many Croats were machine gunned in a small valley near Poljana a few miles across the border from Bleiburg inside Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | In Central America it stands out as a model of high quality provision drawn from a small resource base . |
| 12 | Soon after the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985 outlawed surrogacy contracts , members of the British Medical Association at their annual meeting voted by a small majority , that surrogacy should be allowed as infertility ’ therapy ’ for couples who could not have a biological child any other way . |
| 13 | By contrast , the Reagan Administration justified its invasion of Grenada by pointing to the danger faced by a small group of American medical students , a rationale that was rebutted by international law bodies . |
| 14 | The probe was labelled with approximately 0.5 MBq of technetium dried onto a small square of filter paper , sealed under waterproof tape , and placed very close to the electrode tip . |
| 15 | This is a new name applied to a small sub-basin lying between the flanks of the London-Brabant Massif and the previously-identified Dowsing Fault-Zone ( Glennie and Boegner 1981 ) . |
| 16 | After passing over the top of Red Crag — an ill-defined top marked with a small cairn of stones to the left of the fence — bear to the left through the remains of a wooden gate towards a much lower peak intriguingly called Pikeawassa . |
| 17 | I do n't see the support of victims of crime as a separate service provided by a small specialist agency but as something which should be much more widely accepted like sickness or bereavement , so that people can get a more sensitive and understanding response from their employers , neighbours , doctors and so on . ’ |
| 18 | One night she had boarded a small fishing vessel moored at a small port near Yalta . |
| 19 | The most satisfactory arrangement is to have the cable connector concealed beneath a small paving slab . |
| 20 | He was very friendly and told me he was a cripple , unable to work , but he and his wife managed on a small pension ; there was no bitterness in his voice . |
| 21 | The party 's general secretary , Achille Occhetto , acknowledged the failure of communist policies in 1989 , and said that the new name represented " the two great ideas that define the fundamental alliance of the forces of renovation in the world " , while its new emblem , an oak tree with the hammer and sickle reduced to a small detail beneath it , combined a representation of the history of the workers ' movement with " our duty to live in a relationship with nature " . |
| 22 | She had n't expected him to be simply standing there , watching her , and her breath caught in a small gasp as she almost collided with him . |
| 23 | The full board arrangement offered at a small supplement represents very good value . |
| 24 | Rugs covered the floor and a lap dog played before a small log fire . |
| 25 | The receptionist presided over a small office on the twenty-second floor of the United Nations Building , its unmarked door locked at all times and only accessible to authorized personnel . |
| 26 | In any case , the decision to create the polytechnics emanated from a policy devised by a small group of senior officials at the DES who , among other things , were concerned to create a top tier of institutions within the public sector to replace the CATs which were in the process of becoming universities . |
| 27 | The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter . |
| 28 | The pilot study is a trial run on a small number of ‘ guinea pigs ’ who should be as like the true respondents as possible in age , intelligence , social class , etc . |
| 29 | Perhaps always an alarming noise for a man trapped in a small space . |
| 30 | There was a ragged hole just above the knee on his left leg caused by a small piece of shrapnel . |