Example sentences of "to a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the road to Great Aunt Martha 's lay between avenues of waving rhubarb , enchanting as the Golden Road to Samarkand to a small child eager to see the big , wide world . |
| 2 | Just as you say to a small child , ‘ Keep on the path , ’ rather than ‘ Do n't go on the road , or Please can you talk more quietly , ’ not ‘ Do n't shout ! ’ so it is necessary to seek out what is good in any situation . |
| 3 | All unpleasant , especially to a small child , but usually of brief duration and causing no lasting damage . |
| 4 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 5 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 6 | In other words , the overall management of an organisation that is in many ways similar to a small hotel or guest house , where most of the guests are extremely frail elderly people . |
| 7 | But if it is due to a small proportion of an impurity it can usually be dealt with by careful purification or by exposing the sample to the laser beam for some time ( a process called photo-bleaching ) . |
| 8 | I launched it on to a small lake and , lying flat on its wooden platform , pressed my face close to the water . |
| 9 | With marked reluctance , the elderly woman led them inside to a small sitting-room , which overlooked the garden at the rear of the house . |
| 10 | ‘ Tread pattern ’ means the raised and lowered pattern which , in modern tyres , is provided around the walls of the tyre to a small degree as well as where the tyre makes contact with the road surface . |
| 11 | Jakobson 's poetic analyses are mostly concerned with establishing the mere presence of relationships of equivalence , and only to a small degree with discussing their significance . |
| 12 | Carefully , holding her temper under tight control , Caroline walked to a small parquet table and put down her glass . |
| 13 | This is a new name applied to a small sub-basin lying between the flanks of the London-Brabant Massif and the previously-identified Dowsing Fault-Zone ( Glennie and Boegner 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Does a TI-59 with its hardwired navigation module installed — a good approximation to a small part of a honey bee brain — qualify ? |
| 15 | If the resorts brought fashion and income to a small part of Sussex they were partly instrumental in the steady opening-up of the county to outside influences . |
| 16 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 17 | The offender went by motorcycle to a small branch of a national bank , and entered the branch wearing a crash helmet with a scarf wrapped round the lower part of his face . |
| 18 | Being one whole arm of the ‘ H ’ that makes the old school , to a small boy the chapel seemed massive . |
| 19 | All very frightening to a small boy wondering if he would die . |
| 20 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 21 | She went with her aunt to sell Hallowe'en masks to a small boy in diminutive jeans , with snot caked in his nostrils . |
| 22 | So when , if , if you were to come to sell your residence , they would knock off that proportion of the total er er which could in fact give rise to a small capital gain depending on how the er how you sold , because you might sell it at a loss . |
| 23 | Thinking that was a dig at female priorities , she smiled but said nothing as they chugged slowly to a small jetty . |
| 24 | Rather than ministering to a small elite , these institutions had now established their function as the " education of the upper intelligence groups of the nation " , selected according to criteria which included being " good " at English in school . |
| 25 | In the teeth of a true Kiwi southerly we hitched a ride in a four-seater Cessna airplane to a small airfield in Blenheim , at the top of the South Island . |
| 26 | When either the supply or the demand curve for a good or service is very inelastic , the imposition of a tax will lead only to a small change in quantity . |
| 27 | The thermometer was connected by a spiral of red wire to a small meter in my pocket . |
| 28 | The proposals , confirmed as viable by the newly privatised Merseyside and North West Electricity Board , involve diverting some of the water from two streams at the head of the Falls and piping it underground to a small stone and slate turbine house at the bottom of the valley . |
| 29 | Half-anhour later we turned into a gateway leading to a small cottage . |
| 30 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |