Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [prep] [art] 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 The British economy has been sustained in no small part by migrants from the former dominions — India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and the West Indies .
3 Favourable treatment has been given to the small shareholder , when allocating oversubscribed issues , in some of the privatisation issues .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Support for these views has been sought in the small , variable , pleural sclerites of the Apterygote insects , though recent work on these by Manton ( 1972 ) has cast serious doubt on the subcoxal theory .
7 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 .
8 EAP has been evaluated in a small series of patients with locally advanced unresectable tumours .
9 STAGGERINGLY , an unknown Shakespeare play has been unearthed in a small computer in The Independent .
10 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 .
11 In the centre of the lawn , a large decorative tub has been planted with a small leaved variegated ivy with clipped lavender around it .
12 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 .
13 Disappearance of perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies after treatment with corticosteroids has been reported in a small number of patients .
14 The use of the molten salt cycle has been proved on a smaller scale at the department 's Sandia National Laboratory at Albuquerque , New Mexico , which has already spent $39 million .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Moreover , cytochrome P450 1A1 associated mon-oxygenase activity ( ethoxyresorufin 0-deethylase ) has been found in a small group of colon carcinomas .
18 Mary Norton 's classic story about a family of miniature humans who live under the floorboards of a house has been adapted for the small screen and starts tomorrow ( BBC1 , 5.40pm ) .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The indications are that the site may have been started as a small unpre-tentious building .
22 Most of the grief appears to have been felt by the smaller shops .
23 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 .
24 Mink had been seen in a small culvert created by a spring on a long grassy bank .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 The Doctor and Blake had been escorted to a small workman 's shed .
28 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 .
29 Two litre bottles of mineral water had been placed on a small wooden table with a hard-backed chair .
30 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 .
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