Example sentences of "small [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French are pragmatic to the point of openness over their illegal activities but in the end it is the smallest and most immoral of them all , Mossad , which is the most efficient . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When anyone is running a factory they map out every tiny detail , saying when the smallest and most important things shall be done , and by whom . |
| 4 | They still guard the interests of the smallest and most protectionist of the country 's auctioneers who would be bankrupted by an open market . |
| 5 | Austria 's smallest and most westerly province , bordering on the Tryol , Lichtenstein , Switzerland and Germany , Vorarlberg has been dubbed The Children 's Wonderland . |
| 6 | The smallest and most strikingly coloured of the true geese , with a very small bill , chestnut throat , breast and face patch , and rest of plumage black with white lines , including broad one on flanks conspicuous at a distance . |
| 7 | LITTLE GULL Larus minutus The smallest and most tern-like gull of the region . |
| 8 | from the smallest and also |
| 9 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 10 | Smallest and least distinctive small European bird of prey , most easily told by its flight , habitat and general habits . |
| 11 | Formentera is the smallest and least developed of all the Balearic Islands . |
| 12 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 13 | Similarly , if the gravitational mass of the proton were significantly different , one would not have had stars in which these nucleides could have been built up , and if the initial expansion of the universe had been slightly smaller or slightly greater , the universe would either have collapsed before such stars could have evolved or would have expanded so rapidly that stars would never have been formed by gravitational condensation . |
| 14 | Unless the original is crisp and clear the copies will lose definition , the smaller or more delicate the typeface , the worse the problem . |
| 15 | It also has a very large appetite , as you have found to your cost , and may attack smaller or less aggressive species ( and fishkeepers ' fingers ) . |
| 16 | This is also composed of hydrocarbons and is similar to oil except that the hydrocarbon molecules are smaller and thus more volatile . |
| 17 | Women consuming one unit of alcohol per day at the time of conception and during pregnancy have babies that are smaller and thus at greater risk of illness . |
| 18 | He always spoke slightly disparagingly of Knockglen , even though the place he came from himself was smaller and even less like a metropolis . |
| 19 | Er I 'm also concerned that the services in er even a village that size would be erm overwhelmed by the demands of erm large scale development , but that 's the largest , there are a range of other settlements which are mostly much smaller and even much less able to accommodate , or act as a nucleus for large scale development . |
| 20 | Over the years , though , it 's been made smaller and also shallower . |
| 21 | The Stoddard Golf Club — for those employed in the company — organised five events and the Glenpatrick Golf Club which is smaller and also has membership from outside the Company , organised four . |
| 22 | But as the generations ran their course , each one interbreeding with the local village dogs , the successive progeny became smaller and relentlessly unimpressive . |
| 23 | Her voice changed , became smaller and yet harder than before . |
| 24 | But Hawley says : ‘ Jason is more like Hanley in his general play — even though he is much smaller and basically a scrum-half . |
| 25 | Students of Russia who hail from much smaller and less heterogeneous countries might pause to ask themselves whether democratic rule under any kind of government is possible in a country as awesome in its administrative complexity as this one . |
| 26 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 27 | Walls of ancient stone with the hillside at their backs pressed in on his right ; smaller and less sheer but still impossible for him to climb . |
| 28 | However , having made the above comment , it must be stated that in the early 1980s the external debt situation of some LDCs made banks more cautious in their dealings with smaller and less well known banks and financial centres . |
| 29 | He seems to have largely ceased to make these large sketches by 1814 although smaller and less interesting ones exist until 1820 . |
| 30 | Particular difficulties arise , perhaps , in establishing relationships with those who are smaller and less powerful and , possibly , to some extent dependent . |