Example sentences of "[vb -s] a small [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anya surreptitiously scratches a small reddish patch on her wrist . |
| 2 | On the top of the hill stands a small ruined church . |
| 3 | The west end of the south aisle is separated off , opening by a small pointed door to the west of the aisle , and contains a small single window , trefoiled , with iron bars . |
| 4 | Weather the central heating is on or not , dry towels are possible all the year round with Bisque 's Arbonia towel radiator , which contains a small electric heating cartridge . |
| 5 | Overall responsibility to the Academic Board and the Director for the health of the Course lies with the appointed Dean , who heads a small central team consisting of the Assistant Dean , Modular Course Co-ordinator and eleven senior tutors . |
| 6 | Apple Computer Inc 's second batch of Newtons will be notebook-sized versions of the device which it expects to ship at about the same time as the small first model , according to MacWeek : the notebook will have a landscape-mode screen with a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels ; the notepad , in contrast , has a small portrait-mode screen ; Apple will also deliver its first PCMCIA slot in the Newton this summer , but a slot for the PowerBook laptops may be further away . |
| 7 | South America also has a small tree-climbing anteater , which is a close cousin of Myrmecophaga and looks like a miniature and less extreme version of it , and a third , intermediate form . |
| 8 | Their motel has a small kidney-shaped swimming pool , a pay phone and a Coke machine . |
| 9 | Thus , if the Moon today has a small liquid iron core then either its small size or the lack of a solid inner core or the slow axial spin of the Moon ( sidereal period 27.32 days ) has prevented it generating an appreciable magnetic field . |
| 10 | The L1 , which may be present in faeces and sputum , has a small cephalic button , and a wavy tail with a subterminal notch , and its presence in association with respiratory and circulatory signs is accepted as confirmatory . |
| 11 | Each of the six bedrooms has a small panelled closet . |
| 12 | Sometimes a comparatively-small apparent amount of media has a large surface area ( foam , sintered glass ) ; in other cases an apparently large amount of media has a small effective surface area ( under-maintained clogged gravel is the best example ) . |
| 13 | This species has a small central disc , and long , slender arms . |
| 14 | The hotel has a small pleasant lounge and bar , two terraces one on the roof , a solarium ( payable locally ) and a sauna ( free ) . |
| 15 | The male , like that of T. canis , has a small finger-like process at the tip of the tail . |
| 16 | The present day building has a small western tower and 12th century nave standing away from the road on the edge of a wood . |
| 17 | You will find that each sheet then has a small black mark in the centre of the long side , and this can be set against the centralising mark that your punch must have ( if it does n't , do n't buy it ) . |
| 18 | This indivisibility problem will tend to be smaller if each futures contract has a small nominal value , and the total value of the arbitrage transaction is very large . |
| 19 | Thee are two genera present in the North Atlantic abyssal : Asteroschema Orsted & Lütken , 1856 , which is densely covered with granules and has a small ill-defined disk , and Ophiocreas Lyman , 1879 , which is covered mainly by skin although the disk has a light covering of small granules and the disk is slightly larger and more distinct . |
| 20 | The village has a small delightful church in an attractive setting . |
| 21 | A very predictable word has a smaller context-produced cohort than a moderately predictable word , so less of the word itself will need to be analysed to reduce the cohort to a single candidate . |
| 22 | Finally , Denis Lanzenberg is an artist who frames his own richly coloured paintings , then , instead of a title or caption , appends a small black-and-white photograph , which attracts the eye and complements the viewer 's appreciation of the composition . |
| 23 | If the assertion relating to uniqueness is incorrect then there exists a smallest positive integer unc c , say , such that c is expressible in two essentially distinct ways . |
| 24 | In addition , there exists a small private sector where coal companies operate their own small mines under a licencing arrangement with state industry . |
| 25 | Instead , it represents a small forgotten corner of Czech territory . |
| 26 | It only takes a small criminal minority to cause these problems and the message must be that the residents of this estate will pull together to stop it happening again . |
| 27 | Such a situation arises when the supply only delivers a small direct load current . |
| 28 | For example , much publicity has been given to the patch or neighbourhood system of social work which entails a small integrated team of social workers dealing ideally with small communities of between 5,000 and 10,000 people . |
| 29 | She draws a small rectangular mirror from her shoulder-bag and watches as the pus begins to consume the left-hand side of her face . |
| 30 | Her father was a postmaster her mother owns a small dry-cleaning business . |