Example sentences of "small [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened the small freezer at the top , and four different types of ice cream , some frozen cream cakes and some ready-to-bake cookie mixes promised further consolation . |
| 2 | He discovered that a glass-enclosed lamp with small openings at the top and bottom to let the air in and the smoke out made a safe lamp . |
| 3 | The wall of the colon becomes oedematous , congested and thickened with small haemorrhages at the sites of worm attachment ( fig. 34 ) . |
| 4 | This is , I admit , a rather small genre at the moment ; but I have recently noticed increasing use of the abattoir in short stories . |
| 5 | A pony will often find a ‘ fifth leg ’ when a big horse will fall flat on his nose , and although you do n't see any small ponies at the top in eventing , many riders like a bit of pony blood in their eventers ‘ to help them think more quickly ’ . |
| 6 | Paula found Archer in a small kitchen at the rear of the cottage . |
| 7 | The police had stationed their Major Incident Vehicle , a glorified caravan with radio aerials , temporary telephone lines and a flashing blue light on a small mast , in a small crescent at the end of Neptune Court . |
| 8 | In 1864 , the brothers Thomas and Andrew Kay started specialising in curling stone manufacture in a small building at The Haugh , near Mauchline . |
| 9 | He reckoned the guards were in the small building at the easterly end of the runway . |
| 10 | Majority shareholders Hamish and George Deans were faced with hostility from more than 50 small shareholders at the meeting at Brockville over their motion to remove the men . |
| 11 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 12 | A small light at the end of the tunnel |
| 13 | Through easy small talk at the beginning and by humour , giving a relaxed impression themselves . |
| 14 | THE Brazilian driver , Gil de Ferran , exploited a small gap at the start , swooped into the lead , and from then on was never headed in the second race of the British Formula Three Championship at Silverstone yesterday . |
| 15 | A TWO point win with only two tries scored in their opening game against seeded Italy , left Ireland very much thankful for small mercies at the start of the 18th annual Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank invitational here today . |
| 16 | It 's arranged that you would eat out or in small parties at the hotel , as I thought maybe you 'd want to get away from each other by then … . |
| 17 | There is a small repository at the back of the church . |
| 18 | I had composed that party political broadcast in a small bedroom at the back of the Buccleuch Arms Hotel at St Boswells , Roxburghshire , the reason being that after ten years at Piers Place , Old Amersham , we had decided to move . |
| 19 | You have created a star , in a small pond at the moment , but by the end of the Season Aschmann will be a highly commercial plum . |
| 20 | On the cylindrical AA and C types of batteries , the small terminal at the top end is positive while the whole of the base is negative . |
| 21 | In some instances , ( e.g. pls. 11 , 12b , and in the Berryfield mosaic ) , a rosette is found in the small squares at the corners of the grid . |
| 22 | And yet a small adjustment at the right place can make a significant difference . |
| 23 | The small boy at the Green demonstration in the Maldives has no doubt : his home-made banner read ‘ Down with Sea Level Rise ’ . |
| 24 | This was so successful that in May 1873 they took a lease on the Small Hall at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , and opened 26 May 1873 . |
| 25 | One set of scenarios for the engineering industry suggests that in a country such as Norway , with small communities at the heads of the many fiords , an appropriate use of the technology would be for each community to have some equipment to produce particular parts of a product or to engage in particular parts of a production process . |
| 26 | The Fresson Trust , who are unveiling a statue to Northern air pioneer Captain Ernest Fresson ( see FlyPast October issue ) , are keen to start a small museum at the Highlands capital airport and ‘ we would love to have the aircraft as our first exhibit ’ , said Trust Chairman Peter Clegg . |
| 27 | After introducing it to an 18″ x 12″ aquarium I soon found it had re-arranged the substrate to form a small barricade at the front of the tank . |
| 28 | The landing was bumpy and they skipped over a small iceberg at the end of the runway where it sloped down to meet the fiord . |
| 29 | a typeface that has no serifs ( small strokes at the end of main stroke of the character ) ; eg Helvetica . |
| 30 | Without a word Alexander Vass rose to his feet and crossed to a small desk at the far side of the room . |