Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these early aquatints by Green the skies are produced by various bitings and stopping-out of the aquatint , the varnish has been applied with a small brush . |
| 2 | It has been argued on a small amount of evidence from Britain and a greater quantity from Gaul , that most civitates were divided into constituent pagi , or rural areas , and that small towns acted as pagus centres . |
| 3 | If they then go out and collect signatures no-one can say that the petition has been organized by a small group who have twisted arms in the street . |
| 4 | Their indirect effects can nonetheless be measured , and their existence has been confirmed by a small shift ( the ‘ Lamb shift ’ ) they produce in the spectrum of light from excited hydrogen atoms . |
| 5 | EAP has been evaluated in a small series of patients with locally advanced unresectable tumours . |
| 6 | STAGGERINGLY , an unknown Shakespeare play has been unearthed in a small computer in The Independent . |
| 7 | Since its foundation , AMES has been transformed from a small mainly middle-class group to a large popular-based organization , with an increasingly clear and more elaborate analysis of women 's specific oppression . |
| 8 | In the centre of the lawn , a large decorative tub has been planted with a small leaved variegated ivy with clipped lavender around it . |
| 9 | These results are important for plate tectonic theory because they show that the Earth is not currently expanding as has been suggested by a small minority of earth scientists , at least not at a rate which is significant compared with rates of plate motion . |
| 10 | Disappearance of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies after treatment with corticosteroids has been reported in a small number of patients . |
| 11 | Chief coach Rod Carr could hardly have expected such a position at this stage of the Olympic run-up and it is a justification of the Richard Ellis elite squad system under which financial and training assistance has been concentrated on a small number of the best sailors in each class . |
| 12 | To date , it has been co-ordinated through a small Rome-based unit which assists tropical countries in drawing up national plans preventing forest loss . |
| 13 | Moreover , cytochrome P450 1A1 associated mon-oxygenase activity ( ethoxyresorufin 0-deethylase ) has been found in a small group of colon carcinomas . |
| 14 | Some club members say that problems have arisen because power at Rugby has been restricted to a small executive committee , and major constitutional changes at the club now seem likely at the annual meeting in June . |
| 15 | Membership has always been voluntary , remaining at less than 10 per cent of the possible total and the considerable workload has been carried by a small , enthusiastic group . |
| 16 | The indications are that the site may have been started as a small unpre-tentious building . |
| 17 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 18 | Mink had been seen in a small culvert created by a spring on a long grassy bank . |
| 19 | Rod Richards , the Tory MP for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 20 | Rod Richards , the Tory Member for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 21 | The Doctor and Blake had been escorted to a small workman 's shed . |
| 22 | The former kitchen had been made into a small dining room almost entirely filled with an early Victorian table and set of six chairs which were undeniably the real thing . |
| 23 | Two litre bottles of mineral water had been placed on a small wooden table with a hard-backed chair . |
| 24 | Six chairs had been placed around a small antique card table and in front of each chair were papers topped by a sheet of figures . |
| 25 | The bandage round her head had been replaced by a small dressing above one eyebrow . |
| 26 | Katya had been moved into a small room near the kitchens , which she shared with Esmereldi , and she was told to cook for the soldiers . |
| 27 | Anne managed to discover that Kathleen O'Neill had been moved to a small hospital near St Helens in Lancashire and she travelled there to visit her on Sunday . |
| 28 | Several ornaments from a displayed collection of unpleasant little figurines had been swept off a small table . |
| 29 | Moz was a four-year old stallion who for most of his life , the three and a half years following weaning , had been kept in a small yard measuring no more than 20 x 20ft ( 6 X 6m ) . |
| 30 | Two months earlier , the agent had discovered , the place had been rented by a small group of supposed ‘ rustic freaks ’ who claimed they wanted to return to nature , live simply and create artefacts in pottery and basket-weaving . |