Example sentences of "[verb] and [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at Graham , not smiling , then her lips trembled and a small smile did appear . |
| 2 | He was searched and a small bag of the drug was found . |
| 3 | In the year to the end of June there was an eleven per cent increase in the number of outpatients seen and a smaller rise in the number of patients treated in hospital wards . |
| 4 | Much work was needed to bring them up to scratch and the small band worked hard to ready everything for an opening to the public in June . |
| 5 | The responses are completed and a small sub-committee of the policy-making group , including the INSET coordinator , begins to collate the points for consideration . |
| 6 | The research will be conducted in cooperation with the project ‘ Subcontracting and the small business ’ also ESRC financed , which relates to the UK and is being carried out by other economists in the University of East Anglia 's Economics Research Centre . |
| 7 | A human population of about sixty people make their living from crofting , knitting and a small amount of lobster-fishing . |
| 8 | In addition , a study of documents , which included registers , brochures and forms of communication to parents , was undertaken and a small number of special classes for truants observed . |
| 9 | I have a Toshiba 1000XE portable ( 8086 processor ) which I mainly use for wordprocessing and a small database . |
| 10 | So the camera 's view is steadily narrowing and the smaller screen image still fills the whole frame size of the camera filmstock . |
| 11 | Sometimes , when activity is particularly intense , the wall of the crater is breached and a small lava flow emerges and flows away downhill , and if this happens , the activity tends to quieten down for a while . |
| 12 | ‘ Two rashers of bacon a week was all you could have and a small amount of sugar , ’ said Mr King , who with his wife , Agnes , ran the shop for the next 35 years . |
| 13 | Hunger depends more on the access rural peasants have to land and the small farmer 's control of the land rather than the density of population . |
| 14 | Someone screamed and the small queue scattered , but Jenna was already by the shop as the skidding car hit the plate-glass window . |
| 15 | This Teddy , so the tale went , had had one paw removed and a small flail with leather tails sewn on . |
| 16 | Staxigoe used to be far more important than Wick ; a busy fishing port , where Scandinavian timber was imported and the small harbour bustled with boats long before Wick gained pre-eminence as the most notable herring fishing station in Europe during the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 18 | Surplus junior posts were to be converted to consultant posts , with additional service work being met by the new staff grade and a small increase in the number of senior house officers . |
| 19 | The face was weatherbeaten and a small cigarette hung in the corner of the mouth . |
| 20 | The Maggot , who refused to wear a seat belt , shoved his throttles forward , and I felt the sweat trickling down my belly as the brakes were released and the small plane thundered down the rough surface . |