Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With lower taxes and a smaller distortion there would be a lower dead-weight burden . |
| 2 | Finally , the politically important and influential newspapers were not the newspapers with the greatest circulation but the small circulation , élite ( political ) newspapers as exemplified by The Times . |
| 3 | Small businesses are considered risky investments and a small organisation 's borrowing capability might be limited . |
| 4 | Jan Alexander Taylor and Patrick Thomas Hayes were arrested on Tuesday , hours after police released film of two men caught on security cameras five weeks ago walking along the street near the Knightsbridge store about 30 minutes before a small bomb exploded . |
| 5 | Willie held an empty bucket and a small bag , while Zach carried a basket and satchel . |
| 6 | The older boy , leaner and more muscular , has shorter hair and a small skull-cap which may conceal a tonsure . |
| 7 | Apart from an influx of long-awaited sliding-door stock for inner suburban units and a small batch of unpopular Weymouth-Waterloo stocks , the headlines for the Southern Region 's vast DC electric fleet were disappointingly dull . |
| 8 | Plans have been drawn up for commercial offices and a smaller centre for church events . |
| 9 | Get Ready ! teaches pupils to say and understand a basic English vocabulary and a small number of useful expressions . |
| 10 | There are more roads , there 's even a Kentucky Fried Chicken and a small supermarket by the beach . |
| 11 | It should be noted at this point that the small number of boys who become anorexic ( 14 per cent as compared to 86 per cent girls of the patients studied by Bruch ) do so before they reach puberty and do not develop sexually until after they have recovered . |
| 12 | Eventually this ‘ top down ’ approach can lead to the level of a few simple English statements or a small amount of programming code . |
| 13 | To vary the casserole , add 3–4 prepared scallops or a small jar of drained mussels . |
| 14 | It also has three heated public glasshouses and a small propagation unit which concentrates mainly but not exclusively on bringing on plants for amenity planting . |
| 15 | Apparently , he was to be interred in the clothes he died in , wrapped in some canvas sheet and either buried in the cemetery of a nearby church or the small graveyard on the other side of the Tower church . |
| 16 | These people , one of whom was a whiskered old man , carried guns which they let off frequently , rode horses at terrifying speeds across an arid landscape similar to the one I played in each day , while breathless crashing music and a small dog pursued everyone everywhere they went . |
| 17 | Every Sunday in the country a different village had what was called a balera , a large marquee with a highly polished wooden floor and a small orchestra which played all afternoon and evening , with an interval for supper . |
| 18 | I put an old eiderdown and a small pillow in the coffin and waited . |
| 19 | Clipped onto his harness were a couple of screw-gate crabs , some RPs and a small camming-device — just the rack required for an overhanging fist jam crack . |
| 20 | At a synapse , transmitter released from the presynaptic side binds to a receptor on the postsynaptic side , resulting in a change in the electrical properties of the postsynaptic membrane and a small flow of current around it . |
| 21 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 22 | However , Jenny explained that there were few feminists and a small number of women teachers who were involved in equal opportunities work , with the result that they were rarely treated seriously ( cf Joyce , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | A large proportion of public expenditure and a smaller proportion of public revenue arises from the making by the government of contracts for the purchase and sale of goods and services . |
| 24 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 25 | One smoke alarm may be enough if you live in a mobile home or a small bungalow . |
| 26 | Two hours before sunrise on the ninth of March 1620 , twelve forty-foot-long pirogues slipped out of the mangroves where they had been concealed ; each craft was carrying around ten men , each man an axe with a blade of sharpened rock and a small gouge of oystershell in the cloth tied around his waist ; three in each had quivers full of arrows and a pouch of manchineel sap , also at their waists ; one man in each was armed with a gun . |
| 27 | It was the monsoon settlement of some other village — five or six huts and a small area of once-ploughed land , enclosed by a tumbledown stone wall . |
| 28 | A friend with a Spitfire has bought a similar machine and a small group will no doubt emerge to enjoy this new game . |
| 29 | Perhaps you will have a part-time job and a small capital reserve to tide you over the lean years until the farm is pulling its weight . |
| 30 | So you said here to replace the two pipes , the sort of medium pipe and the small pipe you 'll have one that 's a bit bigger than the big pipe . |