Example sentences of "small [adj] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one person whose placement broke down ( WG ) moved to a large institution and then to a small private home at the last datapoint , where her level of participation shows some decrement . |
| 2 | He threw a small private party at the Turnberry Hotel and he invited me . |
| 3 | And here and there , a small private groan at the harshness of the Chancellor 's economic message could be heard clearly . |
| 4 | The male , like that of T. canis , has a small finger-like process at the tip of the tail . |
| 5 | It was a small back room at the back of the house , little more than a box , but when she pressed down the switch of the low-voltage nursery light she felt again a glow of maternal , proprietorial pride . |
| 6 | Haroun had been given a small separate room at the end of the hut , as befitted a VIP . |
| 7 | When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement . |
| 8 | In a high-backed uncomfortable chair in Lord Southdown 's small dark study at the back of the house , Charles sat stiffly to hear the formal complaints about his soldier 's misdemeanours . |
| 9 | There is a small walled garden at the front . |
| 10 | They were closed , but just beyond them he cut the engine and drew up to a short flight of steps with a small studded door at the top . |
| 11 | In fact , it covered only a small bald patch at the front of his hairline . |
| 12 | As these boxes had a small square opening at the back , glazed with opal glass , the Oyster lamps were removed . |
| 13 | He looked surprised at the scene that confronted him , with Gabriel screaming , Coffin silent in the road staring at the van with the small tense figure at the window . |
| 14 | The small untidy garden at the back of Merrill 's flat faced south , trapping the warmth between its old brick walls . |
| 15 | North Cave boasts two public houses : the White Hart on Westgate , built in 1776 , but much altered at the front , was one of the main coaching inns in the mid 19th century ; and the Black Swan on Church Street , rebuilt in 1813 , where ladies could buy bonnets and trimmings in a little shop in the small single-storied part at the far end . |
| 16 | Carson led the way into the small brick and concrete building , along the corridors to the small green-painted interview-room at the rear . |
| 17 | Each pectoral has a vertical orange band and there is a small orange spot at the end of the dorsal fin near the caudal peduncle . |
| 18 | The question to whom the omelette and the statue belong is another matter , and Salmond pointed out that the attempts of the older lawyers to transplant the Roman law of specificatio , confusio and the like to our system are of small practical use at the present day . |
| 19 | The dashed lines on the neck in fig.2 show the positions for the neck muscle blocks , but neither these nor the small triangular piece at the base of the neck are fitted until after the head has been carved and fitted to the body . |
| 20 | She still huddled in her small silent way at the top of her cage , watching the trees and sky and never looking at the Zoo , the people , or the other eagles . |
| 21 | Out of the small sitting area at the end of the corridor Gwendolen Figgis-Hewett darted like a vixen from cover . |