Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the increased vigilance of our officers at seaports and airports and the need to import large consignments of drugs to feed the growing habit of users the obvious answer was to charter or buy a small craft capable of long sea voyages . |
| 2 | It has to be recognised that LDCs face a difficult choice on how to spend educational funds — whether to erase illiteracy or train a small number of scientific and technical specialists . |
| 3 | It is also important to determine which activities and functions should be housed in the new and old locations especially if the organisation plans to carry out either a phased move or to keep a small presence in the old site after the main move has taken place . |
| 4 | I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it . |
| 5 | It is always advisable to try a small area first with the finish that is to be used , or damp a small area with water , as this will give some indication of the change in shade that will occur . |
| 6 | To re-heat or cook a small load is a sure way of wasting energy . |
| 7 | Those calves which are only coughing and/or tachypnoeic are usually in the prepatent stage of the disease or have a small adult worm burden and treatment of these animals should result in rapid recovery . |
| 8 | Second , there is a different sense in which private individuals may not want to conserve soil or have a small family other than the most obvious that it may not benefit them . |
| 9 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 10 | And behold , he shrivelled and withered under their eyes , and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder . |
| 11 | SIR — A 37-year-old man , who had been on total parenteral nutrition for 2½ years after excision of his small bowel for a mesenteric desmoid tumour , found this regimen unacceptable and sought a small bowel allograft . |
| 12 | The same Yorkstone paving slabs in both the conservatory and the garden provide continuity and make the small area look bigger . |
| 13 | If you take that home and read the small print , you 'll find you 're probably not covered for the very things that are going to go wrong . |
| 14 | Filmer looked back towards Xanthe and the investigator and made a small gesture of impatience , and it seemed to trigger a response from the investigator because he said that if anyone remembered any helpful detail , however small , would they please tell him or one of his colleagues , but meanwhile everyone was free to go . |
| 15 | The black horse sniffed the air , and made a small bowing movement of its head , as if in greeting to the other horse . |
| 16 | For a moment Ben seemed about to say something , then he dropped his eyes and made a small movement of his head . |
| 17 | As soon as she thought we were out of sight she reached under her apron and produced a small bottle from which , tipping back her head , she took a swig . |
| 18 | The Liability account showed substantial improvement and produced a small profit for the quarter of $0.7m against a loss last time of $4.1m . |
| 19 | Vanessa gave him a long look , then delved into her handbag and produced a small object . |
| 20 | Tom sat with his shirt-sleeves rolled up , the beads of sweat trickling down the sides of his ruddy face while Willie continued to shiver , managing only to drink half a cup of tea and eat a small piece of bread . |
| 21 | The authorities felt that small gasifiers might provide part of the solution to these problems and New Zealand was persuaded to fund and deliver a small downdraught gasifier for Vanuata . |
| 22 | I did a drugs awareness sketch and got a small part in the school play which was Twelfth Night . |
| 23 | When the group got closer , they broke into a gallop and charged the small party . |
| 24 | He is a forestry expert and has a small stud as a hobby , so now the stables are being used again and I wake up to the clop-clop of horses ' hooves on the cobbles in the morning . |
| 25 | It is built on Greek cross plan and has a small dome on an octagonal drum . |
| 26 | Later he became a director of the club and built the small chapel behind the groundsman 's hut where visiting supporters could find ‘ quiet contemplation and a cup of Bovril ( 58p ) ’ . |
| 27 | I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull . |
| 28 | On a clear spring day in May 1936 he visited Little Gidding , once the home of Nicholas Ferrar , and entered the small chapel there . |
| 29 | I found the Rue des Moines and entered the small apothecary 's shop , but I was disappointed . |
| 30 | At officer level there was to be a chief executive ( in place of the former town clerk ) whose role was to advise the Policy and Resources Committee and head a small management team ( consisting mainly of chief departmental officers ) which would prepare plans and programmes as well as co-ordinate policy implementation . |