Example sentences of "[conj] a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not looking at me any more , but was staring out to sea where a small tanker , her navigation lights glowing bright in the falling darkness , nudged gingerly towards the bunkering buoys . |
| 2 | Karen looked sullenly down at the crazy paving , where a small ant was wending its way homeward with part of a dead butterfly on its back . |
| 3 | There is in any case , it is argued , less incentive for efficient production in a bureau than in a firm operating on a small profit margin where a small reduction in costs means a large increase in profits . |
| 4 | Closing the book , I went back to my cartooning stool , where a small circle of children awaited me . |
| 5 | Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left . |
| 6 | The need for more space lead to the move to the present offices at Grosvenor Gardens House , where a small secretariat serves to administer the affairs of the Society . |
| 7 | In the case of a large community this may be less significant , but where a small community is described there can be no anonymity for anyone . |
| 8 | This does not , however , mean that high quality results can be achieved only by such methods : where a small volume of sections is involved , many of the techniques described in this chapter can easily be adapted for manual preparation of thin sections . |
| 9 | At the roadside on top of this col there is a boundary stone , the original Pierre-Saint-Martin itself , where a small ceremony takes place every 13 July . |
| 10 | She slipped her arm through her sister 's , and they went into the dining-room , where a small fire was burning . |
| 11 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 12 | The tourist will rent a small receiver for around £2 and press a button as he approaches any of the major buildings and monuments , where a small transmitter will then spout cultural , historical , artistic and commercial information at him in a choice of Italian , German , English or Spanish , at any hour of the day or night . |
| 13 | I found a niche where a small landslide had left a level lawn with a backing of turf ; and where the breeze still moved enough to allay the midges , and sat down to my picnic . |
| 14 | Athelstan stared across at the bed post where a small block of wood on which the carving had rested had no v opened outwards like a door . |
| 15 | But Richard brought up siege machines and began to bombard the walls , concentrating on the fourth side where a small town nestled at the foot of the citadel . |
| 16 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 17 | Chef Robert Kranenborg has a Chef 's Table in the kitchen , where a small number of guests are invited to dine on special occasions to watch the brigade at work . |
| 18 | Its past is most apparent in the bar and hall , which have vaulted ceilings and antique-style furniture , and in the restaurant , where a small well is a delightful reminder of days gone by . |
| 19 | Where a small hill or depression had to be crossed in the course of building a canal , a cutting or an embankment was often the engineering solution . |
| 20 | Extending from the individual partnerships there are wide varieties of helpful relationships between groups or classes of children and a department of a business or a small company going on to whole business/school schemes . |
| 21 | Advertisements in newspapers or magazines usually offer only one product , or a small range of goods . |
| 22 | But do not judge the size of a shoal by the number of fish you see rolling , for it could be a big shoal with just a few fish rolling , or a small shoal with all the fish rolling . |
| 23 | Then smudge downwards towards the lashes , using a cotton bud or a small brush . |
| 24 | In 1730 Miller makes a specific request for ‘ cuttings or a small part of your sort of Cistus 's , which is a tribe of plants that we have very few of ’ . |
| 25 | A small change in pronunciation by the user , or a small error in earlier processing will have a large effect on the description at the lexical level . |
| 26 | Pick off the animals which float to the surface with a paint-brush or a small spoon , and rinse them in clean water before examining them . |
| 27 | T. D. People were scared of you — did n't matter whether you were a big man or a small man . |
| 28 | One smoke alarm may be enough if you live in a mobile home or a small bungalow . |
| 29 | They gather together in a dense fleet a thousand or more strong , and paddle steadily towards an inlet or a small bay , splashing vigorously with their wings and feet . |
| 30 | We believe that the diagnosis of hiatal hernia has been over exagerated and only manometric studies combined with precise endoscopic evaluation can say whether we are dealing with a true hiatal hernia or a small initial Barrett 's oesophagus . |