Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go left to reach the small square of Piazza Sant' Eufemia , where across a small lawn that is longer than it is wide and bordered by tall conifers , you will see the church that gives the piazza its name . |
| 2 | Cardiovascular mortality was not related to the duration of gestation except for a small increase in death rates in men born prematurely . |
| 3 | Apart from the fact that I think most people were able to afford a far bigger range of furnishings , for instance , the number of homes that actually had a carpet in the living room , there was very small percentage of people who could afford to have any sort of carpeting except for a small square of something in their living room . |
| 4 | The organisation is a community of scientists — it has no physical centre except for a small secretariat at UNESCO 's headquarters in Paris . |
| 5 | There was no significant increase in concentration of either peptide after intracolonic infusion of any of these test substances , either given as isotonic or hypertonic solutions , except for a small effect of glucose on enteroglucagon concentrations . |
| 6 | Never stash money in the house — either in little tins , jars or under the mattress except for a small amount for use in emergencies . |
| 7 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
| 8 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 9 | They had reached the landing when the first door in the corridor opened and out stepped a man who seemed to have no connection with the boy Andrew Jones , for here was a handsome , well-built and tall man , and he was naked except for a small towel tucked round his waist . |
| 10 | She too was naked except for a small towel around her shoulders . |
| 11 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 12 | Even torches had to be covered with paper and car headlights painted over , except for a small cross of light at their centres . |
| 13 | As there is no possible overlap with H-atom orbitals , the MO has the same energy as the oxygen AO except for a small charge effect . |
| 14 | Rodney James Chapman , a director of the company , asked an industrial tribunal to lift the prohibition notice , but the tribunal upheld it except for a small area where the quarry might be worked but only under a safety system agreed by and worked out with the Inspectorate . |
| 15 | The French had to give up New France , surrendering the St. Lawrence valley and the east side of the Mississippi ( except for a small area around New Orleans ) to the British , and transfer to the Spanish what was left , so the Spanish empire in North America took a long step forward to the north-east from its base in Texas and New Mexico . |
| 16 | Once it had had a lawn and trees and borders but except for a small area , testament to one chap 's enthusiasm for vegetables , it was , says Mrs Hewer , ‘ quite ungardened ’ . |
| 17 | In the eighth century the Moors moved rapidly over Spain from their base in North Africa and occupied the whole country except for a small area in the north-west , between the Cantabrian Mountains and the sea . |
| 18 | The shelf was full , except for a small gap , where it looked as if a book had been taken out . |
| 19 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 20 | It represented an attempt by the EC , albeit in a small way , to address the problem of additionality , to take the initiative in regional matters and to introduce " programme " financing into its regional policy — a mechanism which was to become more important subsequently . |
| 21 | There is ample evidence that tied cottages have been used oppressively by farmers in the past in order , for example , to strangle incipient trade unionism in the countryside , bit except in a small minority of cases it is no longer used as an oppressive weapon of petty political domination : rather it is the carrot which will tempt the farm worker to accept a low wage . |
| 22 | Both American Express and Diners Club have lost ground to Mastercard Gold , which increased its share of the market by about 38 per cent in 1990 ( although from a small base ) and now has 19 per cent of the cards in issue by volume , compared with American Express ' 57 per cent and Diners Club 's 13 per cent , says Market Assessment . |
| 23 | In anything other than in a small space , the acoustic guitar needs electric amplification to be heard . |
| 24 | The provision of water may well be easier and shelter in foul weather more readily available somewhere in a large area than in a small paddock or strip . |
| 25 | In practice , this is unlikely to happen except on a small scale in the present political climate . |
| 26 | During Anglo-Saxon and monastic times , lead continued to be mined throughout Swaledale , although on a small scale and a fairly unorganised basis . |
| 27 | Even sweet jar lids can be used for undergravel filter plates where space is tight , like in a small tank . |
| 28 | He says he can do nothing , and we must go back to Hull , because of a small storm ! |
| 29 | Contraindications to the procedure included stones greater than 3 cm in diameter or limited working space within the gall bladder , either because of a small volume ( <8 ml ) or a large stone load ( >75% of gall bladder volume ) . |
| 30 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |