Example sentences of "[adv] [art] small [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Only the small Staffordshire field is in this category . ) |
| 2 | What was built in eighteen forty seven , and opened in eighteen forty seven , was merely a small branch line , of two and a half , three miles , from this town , to , where it say er er made a er a connection and and a small junction there . |
| 3 | Managers are required to put down a small security deposit , but all equipment is provided by the company , which also pays staff wages and overhead expenses , together with a small additional honorarium ( currently 5 per cent of husband 's salary ) to the manager 's wife for looking after the domestic accommodation . |
| 4 | His mind a careful blank , he reached to the shelf over it and took down a small plastic bag . |
| 5 | So a small neighbourhood system often works best if service users know that they can , if they wish , choose to be treated in a neighbouring locality by another consultant . |
| 6 | The next problem was to bring in a small phone box . |
| 7 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 8 | Oh we left and oh we were all excited about going on what a great big boat and it was in fact only a small water boat . |
| 9 | Shurston was only a small country town — or large village . |
| 10 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 11 | For example , studies have shown that 90 per cent of boys in the Inner London area admit to having travelled on public transport without a ticket , or to deliberately under-paying ; 82 per cent admit breaking windows of empty houses ; and only a small percentage claim to have committed no offences . |
| 12 | With only a small admission fee , the large layout is mainly directed towards youngsters of all age groups but adults will definitely find much of interest . |
| 13 | After purification treatment , the process water can be stored in elevated tanks and fed by gravity to the machine , or it can be pumped directly with only a small balancing tank overhead . |
| 14 | She wore a light travelling raincoat , and was carrying only a small leather bag . |
| 15 | Thus , the population as a whole should require only a small risk premium , much smaller than that required by executives in an individual company who may face personal disaster if the project turns sour . |
| 16 | Yeah , it 's only a small estate agent |
| 17 | Taking into consideration the circumstances in which many of these deaths occurred , we believe that there will be only a small health gain from reducing mortality . |
| 18 | It 's only a small body kind of thing . |
| 19 | Very often one individual with only a small time commitment can carry out the initial investigation and appraisal aspects of a project , but once the scheme is under way the resource level may have to be increased in order to cater for the client 's time-scale . |
| 20 | Journalists must be told that this is a speculative lunch with only a small information content and that the general intent is to discuss the subject in broad terms with the injection of a few ideas from the PROs . |
| 21 | They even took over the small police station in the El Calvario district , the nearest to the main market , and executed a number of the constables who had taken part in the massacre . |
| 22 | Many large bags ( not the small plastic things they gave us to put change in ) of old 5ps have been returned by banks for disposal . |
| 23 | PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut . |
| 24 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 25 | There was just a small village inn — it was over there , where the administration block is now . |
| 26 | My practice setup at home is basically just a small Marshall combo and a wah pedal for certain sounds . |
| 27 | Cranes , ware-houses , offices — all had been stripped away , leaving just a small site office and an abandoned bulldozer outlined against the damp glow on the far bank . |
| 28 | You will be listening to many of these as the election approaches as they are a wonderful invention of the broadcasting industry : a reporter stands alone with just a small tape recorder to protect him and leaps out in front of unsuspecting members of the public asking them an inane question . |
| 29 | She strolled around the perimeter of the room as he poured the pale amber liquid , her fingers skimming over a small marble figure of a faun , then across a tiny enamelled box , and finally she paused before an oil-painting of a man . |
| 30 | She handed over a small metal cylinder . |