Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the extent that functioning markets have emerged — notably in the car parks of every big city — they do little more than recycle the small supply of consumer goods . |
| 2 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 3 | Rohmer proffered it nonchalantly and Pearce sat again , scrutinising it as if examining the small print . |
| 4 | He opens three cans deftly with a penknife and pours the lot — mushroom soup , wieners , white beans — into a pot which he places on the fire while holding a small flashlight in his mouth . |
| 5 | But he knew how to put the fear of God into producers and directors — I learned from this very quickly while playing a small role in The Caine Mutiny [ in which Bogart starred as Captain Queeg ] . ’ |
| 6 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 7 | He attempted to descend a steep staircase which had no handrail , whilst holding a small child by the hand . |
| 8 | The worst sin you can commit when designing a small car , according to Renault 's design director , Patrick Le Quement , is to make it boring . |
| 9 | This result has been interpreted as indicating a small degree of price pressure . |
| 10 | That 's because large events involve extra considerations you never dreamed of when doing a small conference . |
| 11 | The second is to look on companies as performing a small number of continuing processes , rather than as collections of people performing hundreds of distinct , though related , functions . |
| 12 | decommissioning our radioactive facilities and disposing of the waste cost-effectively , while meeting stringent safety and environmental requirements , as well as managing a small number of other government nuclear programmes which remain ; |
| 13 | Although its milling days are long over , the mill now forms a useful storage building as well as housing a small electronics workshop , a far cry from the days of steam and dust featured throughout its century of use . |
| 14 | For passengers from the Caen night crossing , a boulangerie opposite Ouistreham 's church opens early , as does a small cafe nearby . |
| 15 | The retiring doctor had advertised the practice as covering a small town of 8000 people , and that there was no other doctor in the locality . |