Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 2 | Morning light squeezes through a small split in the curtain . |
| 3 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 4 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or maintenance agreement . |
| 5 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or any maintenance agreement , and may not be sold . |
| 6 | This pipe is continued round the carriage between the flooring ; and the water becoming hot , the heat is communicated through a small brass grating in the floor , the temperature of the carriage being regulated by the ventilator above alluded to — |
| 7 | The UN Environmental Programme , UNEP , has , since 1972 , developed as a small and well-respected research and information organization with headquarters in Nairobi , Kenya . |
| 8 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 9 | The road goes through a small hamlet where there is a pond , a few square metres of tired water with a few pieces of rusty iron breaking its surface . |
| 10 | Widowed lone mothers account for a small and declining number of lone parent families . |
| 11 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 12 | Critics ascribed the rise in currency to the current trade surplus and high domestic interest rates rather than the impact of foreign investment funds , which account for a small proportion of equity investment . |
| 13 | They passed through a small station and she caught a glimpse of a couple of people standing on the windswept platform , but other than that there was nothing to see . |
| 14 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 15 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |
| 16 | A minority of the Commission argued for a small number of super-selective schools , for the most able 2 per cent of each age group . |
| 17 | As the plains became higher and colder , so another memorable Andean beast appeared — the guanaco , country cousin to the llama , brother to the vicuña and the alpaca , and properly regarded as a small and humpless camel . |
| 18 | Estimates of the numbers of people who turned out to greet her ranged from 1,500 to 30,000 , but even this higher figure was regarded as a small crowd by Manila standards . |
| 19 | While Bayfield said he was disappointed with the results , he was pleased to see the London W company returning to profit after a small loss in the first half . |
| 20 | Think too about drainage from paved areas at the bottom flight ; in wet weather the steps can act as a small waterfall . |
| 21 | Rubbing away a thin film of ice , he peered through a small frame of snow — and saw Tom Hanks entering the farmyard , plodding doggedly behind a horse that was struggling to pull an improvised wooden snow-plough ! |
| 22 | Shama meanwhile had begun to sift through a small sheaf of numbered pages . |
| 23 | The initial lesion starts as a small papule or vesicle , which ulcerates and spreads leaving a raised , velvety reddened area , which bleeds easily . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) Oesophageal sensitivity to acid was preserved in patients with impaired peristalsis and oesophagitis. ( 4 ) Reflux symptoms lasted longer in patients with prolonged oesophageal acid exposure but were still reported for a small fraction of the total acid exposure time . |
| 25 | In August 1942 a violent clash occurred between a small group of armed Falangists and a crowd of Carlists attending a memorial mass for the latter 's war-dead . |
| 26 | With the hood or hard-top in place , accessing the tiny rear compartment requires an undignified clamber through a small gap , which is hardly in keeping with the car 's suave image . |
| 27 | The increase in net flows to developing countries occurred despite a small drop ( from US48,100 million in 1988 to US$46,700 million in 1989 ) in official development assistance by members of the OECD 's development assistance committee ( which included all OECD countries except Iceland , Luxembourg , Portugal and Spain ) . |
| 28 | Wiwaxia looks like a small Belgian chocolate covered in scales , with some bigger spikes pointing out here and there . |
| 29 | It looks like a small cottage whose thatch has forgotten to stop , running down all four walls to ground level . |
| 30 | Looks like a small boy , sometimes a little lost . |