Example sentences of "[art] small and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 2 | LITTLE GULL Larus minutus The smallest and most tern-like gull of the region . |
| 3 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 4 | The adolescent is emerging from the small and comparatively cushioned world to which he has belonged and is having to face a great deal of pressure from many different relationships . |
| 5 | Magritte 's career has not been examined in such detail in Britain since Sylvester curated a smaller and more exclusive exhibition for the Tate Gallery in 1969 . |
| 6 | Here , in the valley , the world seems to be constructed on a smaller and more delicate scale ; the fields are mere paddocks , so reduced that from this height their hedgerows appear a network of dark-green threads overspreading the paler green of the grass … such is the vale of Blackmoor . ’ |
| 7 | It has always happened , of course , but in the old days , when the stock market was a smaller and more human place , the intimacy of dealing lent some protection . |
| 8 | The little border town of Ludlow may well be a twelfth-century example of planning on a smaller and more rudimentary scale , but the most notable examples come from the thirteenth century — Salisbury , New Winchelsea , the five bastide towns laid out by Edward I in North Wales , and part of Kingston-upon-Hull , laid out by Edward from 1293 onwards . |
| 9 | A new national organisation he believed should be on a smaller and more economical scale than required by the struggle up to 1833 ; functioning as a watchdog over legislation and supplying information to ministers and public its style had to be ‘ very prudent and discreet ’ . |
| 10 | The command hierarchy in such an enterprise may be more clearly structured , and responsibilities better delimited , than in a smaller and more informal partnership . |
| 11 | ‘ To Lawrence , the world is intrinsically a beautiful place , yet we will turn it into filth to get a smaller and less beautiful object out of it . ’ |
| 12 | It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game . |
| 13 | Claiming that he is not ‘ presenting any idyllic picture of the rural parish ’ , Eliot takes as his ‘ norm , the ideal of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil … with a kind of unity which may be designed , but which also has to grow through generations ’ . |
| 14 | This can only be the web of Textrix denticulata , a small and prettily marked relative of the large house spider , which makes sheet webs in houses and outhouses . |
| 15 | More significantly , perhaps , I was annoyed because I expect this financial services organisation to recognise the totality of its relationship to me when making decisions in respect of specific transactions ; in this case to realise that its interest in my house should be adequate collateral for a small and presumably temporary overdraft . |
| 16 | Whether this burning interest came from a transmigration from a previous existence I do not know , but it may have been sparked off by a small and relatively insignificant incident which occurred in the spring of 1929 . |
| 17 | Sardonic and chilling by turns , Joyce harangued a small and often antagonistic group of bystanders , protected himself by one or two stalwarts of the League . |
| 18 | It was becoming clear , at any rate to Griffith if to nobody else , that in a world where practical materials only reached a small and highly irregular fraction of the strength of their chemical bonds , the weakening mechanism , rather than the bond . |
| 19 | Compulsory treatment powers in the community are aimed at a small and highly selected group of people who , because of their illness , might pose a significant risk to their own health or safety or the safety of other people were they to remain without treatment , but who do not require to stay in hospital . |
| 20 | A feature of the jazz chord is that it is often conceived as a small and highly mobile unit . |
| 21 | Then later in that year a composer already associated with the Barberini , the great monodist Luigi Rossi , was invited to Paris ; the best Italian singers were engaged , Torelli prepared expensive spectacles , and Rossi 's L'Orfeo was given before a small and highly select audience on 2 March 1647 . |
| 22 | The Fellowship represents an exciting opportunity for a high-profile research career and will appeal to those wishing to join a small and highly motivated research team . |
| 23 | Restored and repainted in RAF workshops it was being formally handed over — together with glasses of champagne Bourbon or Scotch — by the Ambassador 's wife in front of a small and mainly military audience . |
| 24 | Skinner 's notes to the final disc in the Christchurch recordings of the Byrd masses skate over the exact reasons for this change of pitch and , although I would agree that the brighter sound of trebles has the greater immediate impact than men 's voices alone , it could be argued that if this Mass was ever used , it would most likely have been performed by solo voices or a small and musically skinned ensemble gathered to celebrate a recusant Roman service , probably without the participation of boys . |
| 25 | And Kraemer and Ossenkopp ( 1986 ) , in an experiment formally equivalent to that reported by Kraemer and Roberts , were able to find only a small and statistically unreliable effect using milk as the flavour ( see Fig. 4.3 ) . |
| 26 | In practise these tidal waves can not quite maintain the alignment , resulting in the tides making a small and roughly constant angle with respect to the line joining the two bodies . |
| 27 | Only a small and fairly random subset of voters disagreed . |