Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] [adv] a small " in BNC.

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1 When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words .
2 You 've got the situation where you 've got remote gears , and you 've got a situation where you , sorry , remote valves , and you 've got a situation when you 've got standard valves and also a small
3 Most daysacks have a simple padded back , padded slings and possibly a small waist strap .
4 It should not be a series of coded sign-posts that only a small élite can decode and which lead us round and round in circles .
5 The most important consideration is that a high torque should be available at low speeds and therefore a small switching angle is chosen .
6 At the end of the last Ice Age , some eleven thousand years ago , glaciers stretched across the middle of Europe and African birds had little difficulty in visiting their southern edges where , during the summer , there were rich flushes of insects and other foods but only a small resident population cropping them .
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