Example sentences of "a small [noun sg] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One result of UDCF 's restructuring was its decision to withdraw financing for GT Invoice Factors , a smaller company and a member of the Association of Invoice Factors . |
| 2 | Far ahead of Sharpe was the crossroads itself where the dark mass of fugitives was milling in confusion , while to the right , and acting somewhat as another bastion , was a smaller wood and a handful of cottages . |
| 3 | Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell . |
| 4 | On it you will find some packets of chemical powders , a small bottle and a book . |
| 5 | At the entrance a small boy and a youth were waiting . |
| 6 | It is to welcome its one hundred thousandth member to the fold with a small celebration and a presentation in honour of the occasion . |
| 7 | There was a small explosion and a flash from the flare as it curved into the air . |
| 8 | At the bottom of our garden there was a small river and a caravan site on the patch of waste ground beside it . |
| 9 | He crossed the road , thumped across a pasture , then dropped into a small valley where a tangle of thorns grew either side of a trickling brook . |
| 10 | He pushed across a small phial and a bottle of tablets . |
| 11 | Within , the hotel is simple and friendly with a small lounge and a breakfast room . |
| 12 | The sound throughout more closely resembles that of a small hall than a church . |
| 13 | She rented rooms from a woman whose husband died in Suez and had left her a small income and a house in Whitcher Place . |
| 14 | Armed only with a false beard , a small knife and a lot of cheek , Mr Vendu would cut the paintings out of their frames and walk off with them ; he even took a Renoir from the Louvre . |
| 15 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
| 16 | It had ivy-clad buildings that looked old even if they were not , rolling lawns , elm trees , a small lake and a chapel with a portico . |
| 17 | We passed a small park where a row of conscript soldiers slept beneath the trees . |
| 18 | There is a considerable number of evaluations of pilot or small projects involving a small catchment and a handful of farmers ( such as those undertaken routinely by FAO , IBRD , or other bilateral aid agencies ) . |
| 19 | The road to the fell leaves the A65 at Cowan Bridge , a small village where a tablet on the gable of a former school proudly proclaims that the Brontë sisters were educated there in 1824–25 before the transfer of the school to Casterton . |
| 20 | A few shillings might represent a messuage or cottage with , perhaps , a little land attached ; alternatively it could be a small close or a croft . |
| 21 | Place a small towel or a piece of lint or soft fabric on top of the water . |
| 22 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 23 | The pockets held the usual impedimenta : two sets of house keys , a wallet , a handkerchief , a small penknife and a driving licence . |
| 24 | He thrust her through the archway and into a small ante-room where a fire blazed in an ancient fireplace , then swung around and faced her , his eyes glittering coldly like chunks of a harsh autumn sky . |
| 25 | It may seem a small point when a man is dead , but all other records have always given 17 June as the presumed date of death . |
| 26 | At the time of Domesday the manor was not unlike a small kingdom or a dominion within which the lord was a superior over subjects of different ranks , his power though being not absolute but according to custom and law . |
| 27 | What 's the difference between a small businessman and a pigeon ? |
| 28 | ( g ) Visitor centre for St Abb 's has a small exhibition and a café . |
| 29 | Some banks ' machines , particularly in Spain , may levy a small charge but a warning should always appear on screen before this is deducted . |
| 30 | It 's more like a small farm than a vicarage , but it 's the closest some of these city schoolchildren get to ducks , swans , chickens and geese . |