Example sentences of "[subord] a small [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is in any case , it is argued , less incentive for efficient production in a bureau than in a firm operating on a small profit margin where a small reduction in costs means a large increase in profits . |
| 2 | Closing the book , I went back to my cartooning stool , where a small circle of children awaited me . |
| 3 | This does not , however , mean that high quality results can be achieved only by such methods : where a small volume of sections is involved , many of the techniques described in this chapter can easily be adapted for manual preparation of thin sections . |
| 4 | Athelstan stared across at the bed post where a small block of wood on which the carving had rested had no v opened outwards like a door . |
| 5 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 6 | Chef Robert Kranenborg has a Chef 's Table in the kitchen , where a small number of guests are invited to dine on special occasions to watch the brigade at work . |
| 7 | He had , he said , received little of ‘ Africans ’ , except a small parcel from Petrus Hotton of Leyden , who had in turn received them from Denmark , ‘ one of their ships touching last year at the Cape ’ . |
| 8 | There was little else , except a small bookshelf from which he took one of several charts . |
| 9 | The real problem of inter-war British politics was that no major political party , except a small section of a much diminished and effete Liberal Party , was willing to take the political risk of expanding the economy out of the slump by the use of government intervention to stimulate and regulate the economy . |
| 10 | The central charged domain was not sufficient for either heteromeric interaction with RAP30 or transcription activity by our assays although a small portion of the N-terminal sequence of this domain stimulated association with RAP30 ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 11 | Although a small proportion of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis develop colitis only after the biliary presentation — follow up of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis patients ( particularly those with pathogen negative diarrhoea ) has not yet yielded any patients with non-infective colitis . |
| 12 | The fruit machines were proving fruitful and the Club improved the changing rooms , bought new dining room furniture and tarmacadamed the car park , although a small part of it was sold to the S.E.B. for £75 for use as a sub-station . |
| 13 | Leaving our Teutonic heroines behind , we carried happily on along the grassy ridge to Meall Corranaich , although a small matter of some concern was that Ben Lawers had started to cloud over . |
| 14 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 15 | Although a small number of inter-denominational schools have been built in the UK , they are normally the result of neighbouring schools coming together from weakness and threat of closure . |
| 16 | Furthermore , nutritional treatment with enteral feeds in which nitrogen is provided as a hydrolysate of whole protein has been shown to be inferior to drug treatment in two large studies involving adults , although a small study in children showed equal efficacy to corticosteroids . |
| 17 | Although a small engagement by later standards , this battle at Gumbinnen , and the fact that Samsonov 's encircling movement to the south had been detected , induced Prittwitz to call off the action . |
| 18 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 19 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 20 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 21 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 22 | Both Friends of the Earth and former CFC manufacturers , ICI , have acknowledged that the scheme has failed to collect more than a small proportion of CFCs from old appliances . |
| 23 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 24 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 25 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
| 26 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
| 27 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
| 28 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 29 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |