Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a small [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was convinced that a small company with sound quality credentials and low overhead expenses , and with a team of highly skilled and capable engineers , could get a good portion of these smaller contracts . ’ |
| 2 | In England it provided sails and cables for the fleet ; and for this reason , legislation going back to the reign of Henry VIII required that a small proportion of land be set aside for its production . |
| 3 | BA in-flight catering serves all long-haul and a small number of short-haul services from the UK , producing about 25,000 meals a day from Catering Centre South , where 1,200 people are employed . |
| 4 | Moreover , this possibility is strengthened by the neglect of surface repositories , because regardless of how the various volatiles were acquired it is likely that a smaller fraction of the inert gases are retained in such reservoirs than are carbon and nitrogen . |
| 5 | 3/Paint in the blue/green colour of the water using a mixture of ultramarine blue , white and a small amount of yellow . |
| 6 | In the larger of the two rooms here , there is a whole sequence of a dozen , undated , mostly oil on cotton duck paintings that end with both a large and a small version of Birch Trees . |
| 7 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 8 | The SSI is concerned that a small number of authorities could not show they had abided by this ruling and would require some further investigation by the SSI and the Audit Commission . |
| 9 | No spare parts were available but a small bus-load of Indian servants from our diocesan girls ’ school in Rangoon picked me up and took me on with them . |
| 10 | His eyes grew bulbous and a small trickle of spittle crept from the corner of his mouth . |
| 11 | In 1967 an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease decimated the herds of Cheshire in particular and a small group of local farmers restocked with imported Holsteins , because they were cheaper than British Friesians , and continued to import from North America in larger numbers . |
| 12 | This can be done successfully , but requires a tank large enough to provide open habitat for the other fish ( as well as the rocks for the Mbuna ) and that the Mbuna do not outnumber the others — Mbuna are far more boisterous and a small number of Aulonacaras in a predominantly Mbuna tank tend to be scared all the time , even though rarely actually attacked . |
| 13 | His eyes were unreadable but a small pulse at the edge of his lips was preparing for a dismissive smile . |
| 14 | An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers . |
| 15 | It would appear that the only Shetlanders who have reason to go into the estates at all , other than a small number of professional Shetlanders who have incomer friends who live there , are young Shetlander girls who are willing to babysit when most of the women in a social circle are attending the same function , or Shetlanders supplying some domestic service to individual households on the estates . |
| 16 | Hugh was aware that a small crowd of fishwives , shellfish diggers and freelance gawpers were watching them with interest . |
| 17 | It is not sufficient that a small class of the public has access . |