Example sentences of "has [been] [verb] [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 .
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