Example sentences of "small [noun] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.

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1 Can the Minister point to any country apart from South Africa where such large sums are spent on a small elite group at the expense of the majority ?
2 There was a small activator stud at the other .
3 Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan .
4 Borrow a small edging sander at the same time to finish close to walls .
5 Now he stands in the small parking lot at the back of the hospital , bargaining with God .
6 Ventilation : a small mesh net at the rear of the inner .
7 I arrived on Saturday night , and the next day attended a small Sunday lunch at the home of Mildred Fender .
8 Although the significance of the inserted sequence for MHC function remains to be determined , the location of the small peptide sequence at the 25kDa/50kDa junction indicates that it may be important for folding of the MH molecule and/or activity in the Mg-ATPase domain .
9 Choosing the former , I climbed up to his small attic room at the top of the servants ' wing early one morning and knocked gently .
10 The small grass lawn at the front was overgrown , the wooden verandah running from the porch along the front of the house had several posts missing , and the catch on the outer porch door was broken , so that it swung open and shut with a groan and a bang in the ever freshening wind .
11 If there is not quite an embarrassment of riches , there is enough to make the small investor blush at the choice .
12 They responded by founding a small cryptology school at the University of Poznan .
13 To collect the takings , er from the vending machine you have to go through the adjacent community room into a small box room at the far end .
14 When the procession , which had now picked up a large following , reached Grassgill End the effigy was placed on a small stone area at the roadside , its clothes were drenched with paraffin and it was set alight .
15 a small cross stroke at the end of the main stroke of the letter .
16 Haslam recalls a time when Sir Peter Allen , then the ICI main board director responsible for plastics , predicted at a small dinner party at the ICI guest house at Welwyn Garden City that the market price for polythene would drop from the current 4s a pound to 1s 6d a pound within six months .
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