Example sentences of "[verb] to a small [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having regard to the requirements of the county as a whole , he wrote , and having the advantage of consultation with members of the Ministry of Health , he had decided to recommend the addition of two wings each of three storeys , providing a further 81 beds and a two-bedded ward to be added to a small existing building . |
| 2 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 3 | They came to a small green gate half-buried in the hedge on the right and almost hidden by the overhanging hazel branches . |
| 4 | A little farther on she came to a small white cottage , in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor . |
| 5 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 6 | Willie 's attention was drawn to a small brown bird in one of the hedgerows . |
| 7 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 8 | Ted was declaiming to a small hushed group . |
| 9 | Separated from the lake only by a large terrace and garden , a tree-lined stepway leads to a small stony beach . |
| 10 | In the drawing-room we meet some ancestors : ‘ That delightful man , ’ Olivia says , pointing to a small eighteenth-century portrait , ‘ is my favourite relation . |
| 11 | The men were standing now and Charlie , pointing to a small middle-aged man , said , ‘ This is Joe , violin and much more . ’ |
| 12 | The defendants , some of them very young , belonged to a small left-wing group known as Everyone for the Motherland Movement ( Movimiento Todos por la Patria — MTP ) ; at the time 13 of them were arrested inside the barracks and five nearby , while two , including a priest , surrendered later . |
| 13 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 14 | The model to this point has assumed fixed factor prices , an assumption that might apply to a small open economy ( although even then constancy over time is unlikely ) , but that in a closed economy leaves out of account the general equilibrium effects discussed in earlier Lectures . |
| 15 | Aspects of the Course to be evaluated by employers and students for contribution to employability were selected on the basis of preliminary interviews with staff and students , but supplemented and refined after a pilot questionnaire administered to a small random sample of students ( n=20 ) had been analysed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By sticking to a small basic unit ( 100 or 120 hours of student effort ) delivered across terms ( three per year , and with the development of a summer school , potentially four ) Oxford has established a pattern of regular assessment , and regular award-making examinations boards , that depends upon an intensity of academic staff commitment that other institutions would find difficult if not impossible to implement within the current framework of practice and conditions of service . |
| 18 | When it was first recognised that the atom could be likened to a small solar system in which the electron planets orbited a nuclear sun , theorists were Puzzled as to why the electrons in their tightly curved orbits did not radiate their energy away and spiral into the nucleus as predicted by classical , that is pre-quantum , theory . |
| 19 | The design and development of many of these products was undertaken by large groups of workers and not limited to a small technocratic elite . |
| 20 | Harry had adjourned to a small low-ceilinged pub in Broad Street to pass the interval , installed himself by the window , supped beer and watched the customers come and go : down-at-heel old soaks somewhat beyond his own position on the scale of decline ; and garrulous little knots of students with faces as downily naïve as their opinions were falsely wise . |
| 21 | He crossed to a small occasional table , picking up a silver-framed studio portrait . |
| 22 | He was talking to a small wizened man with long hair and a curved bone through his cheeks which made him appear tusked . |
| 23 | Mushroom anemones or stones , belong to a small taxonomic group known as the Corallimorpharia . |
| 24 | Rice says : ‘ It 's unfair to say to a small black voluntary group with little finance that it should have a certain number of staff ; many are new to developing management committees and constitutions . |
| 25 | Nodular argyrophil cell hyperplasia and morphometric density of argyrophil cells were not stable phenomena : nodular hyperplasias regressed in five patients , remained similar in six , and progressed to a small carcinoid tumour in one . |
| 26 | To be able to move to a small terraced house in a more desirable area could result in winning a job when the opportunity arose . |
| 27 | Then without another word he pointed to a small metal-bound box and a canvas bag standing side by side , and climbed from the brig down the plank to the quay below . |