Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 3 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 4 | This area contains some of the best designed and well-kept Georgian houses in the town , as well as a 19th. century blanket warehouse which has been converted into flats , all grouped round a small green . |
| 5 | For the rest of the decade the working classes were only depicted in a small number of undistinguished films which celebrated or exploited the skills of particular groups of workers . |
| 6 | ( This exchange system enabled some universities to establish very large collections of theses , but it was very costly , since it depended on the production of multiple copies of theses , and the practise was only operating in a small number of American universities by the start of Worl War II . |
| 7 | The Commission and the European Parliament have conducted regular opinion polls over many years to monitor the development of such an identity , but it is still only felt by a small minority of Europeans . |
| 8 | Each litre of brine contains between 0–6 and 6.5 grams of zinc , However no one knows if the brine is concentrated enough to tap from a small area . |
| 9 | Each outer cave or vault can only entered through a small version of the iris-like Vadinamian Valve . |
| 10 | It would only call fur a small diversion from the direct route from Stanley to McMurdo Sound to give him a glimpse of the Ice Shelf and the area where Shackleton 's Endurance was beset and finally sunk . ’ |
| 11 | Three hundred thousand foxes are killed annually in this country , either through hunting , which only attributes to a small two point percent , shooting , gassing , snaring , all of which happen during the hunting season as well . |
| 12 | With a very shallow L curve ( as in Figure 18.3 ) , a rise in money supply from M to M' will only lead to a small fall in the rate of interest from r 1 to r 2 . |
| 13 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 14 | You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children |
| 15 | He had been much taken with a small low-growing Kalmia at Whitton — from Pennsylvania so the Duke of Argyll had told him — but did not specifically request it . |
| 16 | Mr Clinton is apparently thinking of a smaller force , with total manpower cut to 1.4m and troops in Europe to around 100,000 ; but little more is known of his intentions . |
| 17 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 18 | During the course of the day the Bank 's objective will be to provide enough assistance to the money market ( through outright bill operations and the other techniques discussed below ) to relieve the overall expected shortage , but purchases of bills by the Bank at the early rounds of assistance during the course of the day might only account for a small proportion of the overall assistance provided , for four main reasons . |
| 19 | An invention which is properly exploited by a small business may have a dramatic impact on the employer 's turnover ; a larger business , on the other hand , may be able to generate a far larger sales income with the same invention but ultimately produce an insignificant effect on the latter 's overall liquidity . |
| 20 | The purchase of the Trident Missiles programme by the government , for example , appears to have been effectively decided by a small group of Cabinet ministers , outside the Cabinet , in early 1981 . |
| 21 | I 'd just as soon stay in a small pub |
| 22 | This valve is generally situated under a small metal cover — in towns , it is possible to see a whole row of these stretching down the pavement ; in rural areas , it may be more difficult to find . |
| 23 | The design and development of many of these products was undertaken by large groups of workers and not limited to a small technocratic elite . |
| 24 | They walked down towards the town , and Julius finally stopped outside a small restaurant . |
| 25 | Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles . |
| 26 | The royal standard of England no longer fluttered on its pole , a sign that Henry and Wolsey had already departed with a small advance party though Doctor Agrippa had remained , waiting for us in our chamber . |
| 27 | Although simultaneous oesophageal pH measurements were not done , the bursts of non-deglutitive contractions were not preceded by a small pressure plateau or other signs of a common cavity phenomenon . |
| 28 | All these responses are based on a seriously inadequate concept of God as being literally like a man , best denoted by a small g : a god who is visible ; a god who has physical properties like anything else in the world ; a god who inhabits certain places and not others ; a god who acts and behaves just like another person . |
| 29 | Repairing cut-out lath-and-plaster is more difficult , but is generally best done with a small piece of plasterboard . |
| 30 | Similarly , the gradual introduction of more challenging activities intended to facilitate language development is likely to be more easily accomplished in a small class with specialist teachers . |