Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was searched and a small bag of the drug was found . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This Teddy , so the tale went , had had one paw removed and a small flail with leather tails sewn on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The face was weatherbeaten and a small cigarette hung in the corner of the mouth . |
| 10 | 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 . |