Example sentences of "small [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ See that small bit of sticks there , ’ the Master asked Nora ‘ In the hollow , two fields away ? ’ |
| 2 | But on the face of it , Borg is preeminent within that small category of sportsmen — they are almost invariably men , because women are at least offered an alternative role by Nature — whose existence seems entirely bound up with their success . |
| 3 | While there may be problems of productivity for a small category of workers , there is a substantial body of research which suggests that there is little foundation in reality for such views for the majority of occupations . |
| 4 | There is a small category of books where incompleteness , for one reason or another , is almost the rule , so that it is accepted as the norm . |
| 5 | A young girl skips down the steep path with a small sack of potatoes . |
| 6 | She tackles Peter Pan in a small suite of 12″ etchings and aquatints , turning her restless eye and surreal imaginings to the stories of Peter Pan , Wendy and the Lost Boys . |
| 7 | She went into the house and made her way to the small suite of rooms that Bonard and his staff of two used as offices . |
| 8 | At the end , to the north side , the policeman led Duncan into a small suite of offices . |
| 9 | Chancellor Norman Lamont has bowed to pressure and will impose only a small rise on drinkers and smokers . |
| 10 | BOWTHORPE , one of Britain 's few remaining home-grown electronics groups , yesterday unveiled a small rise in profits for 1992 but warned that the incipient German recession was already hitting current trading . |
| 11 | Additionally , management functions attracting a small field of candidates and/or subject to supply volatility , such as financial , marketing and trading positions , were most likely to be recruited by search . |
| 12 | She was standing by a small chest of drawers on which were littered various pieces of domestic junk and a pile of old magazines — True Story , Confessions , Tit-Bits and the like . |
| 13 | All we took from our own home was a dressing table and a small chest of drawers . |
| 14 | There was my bed with a wooden chair beside it and there was a small chest of drawers on top of which were a pile of Arabian newspapers , a few snapshots and two or three bottles of cologne . |
| 15 | This small chest of drawers is an ideal container . |
| 16 | They intended to link their project with Documenta 9 in Kassel on the other side of Germany by requesting work from women worldwide to ‘ point out the problem of the infinitely small presence of women at this year 's Documenta , and help to shed light on the increasing number of well received approaches and concepts originated by women artists in a different way . ’ |
| 17 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 18 | They could , for example , have easily concentrated skills into the hands of a very small elite of technicians , and transformed the operators into unskilled , cheaper , and replaceable labour , but they did not . |
| 19 | Jacob Brailey and his small gang of navvies were also there . |
| 20 | In Europe the only small owl with ear-tufts , though these are not always very conspicuous , and unfeathered toes . |
| 21 | The second factor , the intra-organizational control problem , may differ between regimes because many publicly owned and regulated firms are not easily divisionally organized since the firm essentially operates in only one area , with others a rather small part of activities . " |
| 22 | The allocations of SDRs by the IMF have been very limited , ( no new issues since 1981 ) and consequently SDRs are only a small part of countries ' reserves . |
| 23 | Sexually exiled trom the repressiveness of the home culture ( to which psychoanalytic theory has contributed in no small part with theories like the one just mentioned ) , homosexuals have searched instead for fulfilment in the realm of the foreign . |
| 24 | In particular , the image carried two main implications : that women played small part in relations between men ; and that men acted in groups . |
| 25 | The British economy has been sustained in no small part by migrants from the former dominions — India , Pakistan , Bangladesh and the West Indies . |
| 26 | In October 1974 Labour won only a small majority of seats but that majority had disappeared by 1976 , because a number of minor nationalist parties were able to maximize their effect on the electoral system by virtue of their votes being concentrated into a limited number of constituencies , and because by-elections were lost . |
| 27 | Edmund Gornall helped to found and which we have had an appeal to support is a small pharmacy in Andahuaylas which provides free medicine to those who have no money to pay . |
| 28 | Guests have free access to the nearby lake-side swimming area and there 's a small squadron of bikes for hire . |
| 29 | Although there is a small case of sketches juxtaposed with finished products ( a Richard Meier key ring and a Hans Hollein wristwatch ) , it is frustrating that larger objects in the Met 's collection ( from an 1879 Tiffany mixed-metal salver and a Woodstock cabinet made at Byrdcliffe Colony around 1904 , to 1988 chairs by Emilio Ambasz and George Ranalli and a Morison Cousins prototype ‘ Soup to Nuts ’ bowl for Tupperware ) could not have also been included beside their preparatory drawings . |
| 30 | There was a small case of books . |