Example sentences of "[adv] to a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 2 | All unpleasant , especially to a small child , but usually of brief duration and causing no lasting damage . |
| 3 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 4 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 5 | Still under heavy fire from artillery and mortars , and themselves down to a small amount of ammunition , the remnants of the 1 st Bucks stood fast until dark . |
| 6 | To reach the sea below guests can take the lift , footpath and flight of 177 steps down to a small private beach . |
| 7 | A qualitative examination can be made by the evaporation of a specimen down to a small bulk and immersion in this residue at the boil of a small swatch of cotton , nylon , and polyester-fibre yarns . |
| 8 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |
| 9 | We finally tracked it down to a small covered trailer behind a parked car . |
| 10 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 11 | However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants . |
| 12 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 13 | Behind the wall was part of Moorlake 's garden , but most of the latter lay behind the house itself , and ran down to a small stream , with a view beyond of fields and woods , some forty acres of which had been owned by Alicia Lockwood , the remains of her father 's more extensive holding . |
| 14 | He wants to move down to a smaller house in Weybridge . |
| 15 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 16 | When John Howard died , ‘ Texas ’ was known only to a small number of Mexicans , American Indians and the occasional settler who had been thrown out of , or wandered away from , the established ‘ colonies ’ to the north and east . |
| 17 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 18 | Jakobson 's poetic analyses are mostly concerned with establishing the mere presence of relationships of equivalence , and only to a small degree with discussing their significance . |
| 19 | When either the supply or the demand curve for a good or service is very inelastic , the imposition of a tax will lead only to a small change in quantity . |
| 20 | It related , moreover , only to a small and atypical part of the empire . |
| 21 | ‘ The contents were known only to a small team of journalists who worked off-site on the project . |
| 22 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 23 | The back garden ended at a short steep scarp falling away to a small stream crossed only by a footbridge . |
| 24 | Newman walked over to a small wall cupboard . |
| 25 | Karelius nodded and took his drink over to a small table by the window . |
| 26 | He walked over to a small table at one side of the room , and started to fiddle with what Folly guessed must be an answering machine . |
| 27 | ‘ Should I start by saying all the usual , very appropriate things ? ’ he asked lightly as he took their drinks over to a small table near the cavernous fireplace . |
| 28 | While Ben went to get their luggage she led her guests over to a small building , separated from the main house by a large garage complex . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Can you identify this item found in a ploughed field close to a small stream near the ruins of Inch Abbey ? |