Example sentences of "have [verb] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women 's Design Service has received a small grant to carry out research into housing design for older women . |
| 2 | And the committee has undertaken a small survey of non-BASW members to gauge how many non-qualified social workers would be interested in joining . |
| 3 | If the GP has asked for a drug to be dispensed in a special calendar pack , or has prescribed a small quantity of an unusual medicine that is only available from wholesalers in large quantities , the pharmacist will want to make sure that the pricing authority is aware of the extra costs . |
| 4 | Otherwise , Mr Kaifu has won a small but notable victory . |
| 5 | The editor Ian Barker ( formerly of the British Council , now a director of Annely Juda , Caro 's principal dealer ) has selected a small cross-section of works , and grouped them around various themes , such as ‘ vessels ’ , ‘ drawing in space ’ , ‘ openings ’ , and so on , designations which enforce the formally innovative , but at the same time ‘ formalist ’ character of Caro 's achievement . |
| 6 | She works fast , adding one strip to the rim of the hardening strip below until she has built a small bottle , complete with an elegant out-turned lip to its mouth . |
| 7 | So far , such encouragement has seen a small but significant increase in the numbers of acrylic courts being laid . |
| 8 | Beryl Chapman , the author , has written a small workbook based on many years of experience for a variety of people to use , not as a large reference book . |
| 9 | It is now accepted as his masterpiece and has spawned a small industry in northern Italy . |
| 10 | One group of pirates has made a small add-on circuit board which makes it easier to copy ROM cartridges . |
| 11 | Did you know that Hoggatt 's has got a small Wren chapel in the Lab grounds ? |
| 12 | Erm well she has got a small policy she took out with |
| 13 | A winter stream runs past and to enter the house , one has to cross a small wooden bridge . |
| 14 | The children are allowed to sit up and watch the programme when it finally goes out ( Howard has bought a small portable television set for the occasion ) . |
| 15 | But to end our book on jet-lag and shift-work would be too negative , and so we will end by describing an area in which the knowledge of daily rhythms has enabled a small but important contribution to medicine to be made — the diagnosis and treatment of illness and disease . |
| 16 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 17 | Verhoeven 's movie has lit a small bonfire under the gay community in America . |
| 18 | Merchiston Publishing has become a small but not insignificant niche publisher . |
| 19 | Yet even DEC , which has spent a small fortune debugging and porting it , has loosened its bear hug . |
| 20 | In the meantime , he has taunted a small army of investigative journalists with his Ferraris , Italian suits and youthful girlfriends . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Taylor has discovered a small colony of orchids in the woodlands beyond the rectory garden . ’ |
| 22 | The British government has established a small fund for bringing the ‘ know-how of pluralism ’ to Poland : in management , accountancy , banking , local government , tourism and even ( God help us ) journalism . |
| 23 | With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective . |
| 24 | The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe . |
| 25 | S. O. Letterman has rented a small apartment in the rue de Beaune . |
| 26 | The Department of the Environment has circulated a small leaflet : ‘ How to help prevent it ’ dealing with the winter-time pollution which is such a threat to road usage . |
| 27 | Mr Goldin has assembled a small redesign team in NASA . |
| 28 | During that time BP has held a small interest in offshore block 8 and has been designated operator for onshore Cabinda Central block , where operations have been suspended for security reasons . |
| 29 | She strained away , but saw that her breasts were thrust out further , and now she had a new sensation to worry about — the liquid feeling in her loins as if he 'd built a small fire there . |
| 30 | He 'd got a small garden fork and he started taking out rough bits of grass from the edge of the drive . |