Example sentences of "in a small [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be no alternative to working in a small firm for those excluded or transferred from regular employment status in large companies and their primary subcontractors . |
| 2 | For a modern example , see Smith v Gale [ 1974 ] 1 All ER 401 , an unfortunate dispute in a small firm of solicitors . |
| 3 | We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy , which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it . |
| 4 | His evidence for fusion neutrons consisted of what to the eye looked to be only a moderate increase of neutrons in a small range of energy , though admittedly in the right region to be from fusion . |
| 5 | At the same time , a specific geometric model of the equations in a small range of parameter values was developed . |
| 6 | Originally it stood in a small church in Via San Pietrò which has long since disappeared , and was christened the ‘ Man of Stone ’ when it was repositioned . |
| 7 | At once Colby makes plans to become an organist in a small church in the strikingly named district of " Joshua Park " outside London . |
| 8 | If kept in a small cul-de-sac by itself , it will be utterly benign . |
| 9 | Both eyes opened and her breath rushed out in a small burst of relief as she rolled over on to her back — and her heart slammed to a stop . |
| 10 | ‘ If we can sneak in a small bottle of strong acid to the Bookman , ’ Mr Litmus explained , ‘ he can use it to burn through the bars at night . |
| 11 | Occasionally they contrived to smuggle in a small bottle of crème-de-menthe in response to Utrillo 's pathetic pleas . |
| 12 | Harvesting of clean white worm simply involves picking up the pebbles and dipping them in a small container of cold water . |
| 13 | Put enough eggs to cover a piece in a small container of salt solution . |
| 14 | At 16 he emigrated to Canada and began work in a small shipyard in Quebec , owned by his uncle , John Black , who had gone there from Irvine a few years earlier . |
| 15 | In a small minority of cases it may be that an employer and 1 future employee find each other through Work Experience . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I believe that most men have an inborn desire to hunt and kill and that even today this primitive urge has only been eradicated in a small minority of the human race . |
| 18 | The left is in a small minority in every bit of the party that matters — the executive , the Shadow Cabinet , the party conference . |
| 19 | Inevitably , there is concern among the institutions that their representatives have been excluded from the upper tier and are in a small minority in the lower tier . |
| 20 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 21 | You can breed Daphnia and Cyclops , in a small tub of water in the garden . |
| 22 | In a small pub by a bridge he had a drink and a salad . |
| 23 | They took that into account when building their third house , in a small development off a country lane on the Highgate side of Kenwood , but stuck to their usual system of Geoffrey working out the designs with a lot of input from Elaine . |
| 24 | It was during this period that a young buyer for Adidas based in Liverpool ( but originally from Yorkshire ) set up shop in a small back-street in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 25 | Travelling by train I landed in the centre of Los Angeles and found a room in a small hotel off Pershing Square . |
| 26 | For the last weeks of his curacy he left the lodgings and hired a room in a small hotel up Mount Pleasant . |
| 27 | Yet her mind had been so parched by convention that had her full complement of guests not interacted in the manner of characters in a well-made play , set in a small hotel in Scandinavia , she would not have been able to cope . |
| 28 | Several of the men always stayed in a small hotel in Cairo in Suleiman Pasha Street run by a character they called the ‘ Honest Greek ’ . |
| 29 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 30 | Lise is not a trained cook , but has a wealth of valuable experience which began with helping her mother in a small hotel in Copenhagen . |