Example sentences of "[conj] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were no more secretive or abashed than the soldier ants would have been , gnashing their way through anything that was organic , their collective mind unclouded by doubt , guilt or the smallest hint of compunction . |
| 2 | She was as innocent as the sleeping birds in the trees , or the small field animals in the hedges . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But we do question whether their service is any more worthy of recognition than that of the average hard-working nurse , policeman on patrol or the small businessman who is struggling to keep his company going in the face of the recession and determined not to make his employees redundant . |
| 5 | I do n't know which I noticed first , the slight twitch of an eyelid or the small lift of the ribs which dulled the icy Yorkshire air into his lungs . |
| 6 | The employees interviewed in the 30 banks all have the responsibility for making lending decisions to small business customers , but in only a few cases were those branch managers as such , because generally the role of dealing with the small business customer is delegated to executives such as the specialised Enterprise Manager , or the Small Business Manager , all of whom had several years ' experience . |
| 7 | Just as the slightest of doubts about him crossed my mind — perhaps during one of his endless lists of the women 's sexual problems — he would throw in a sensible remark about the funding of the National Health Service , or the small amount of time GPs can offer patients , and recovered his credibility . |
| 8 | In either case , it will be necessary to attach a small microphone somewhere below the child 's chin and to provide some arrangement for the child to carry around the radio transmitter or the small tape recorder . |
| 9 | They stand outside the shop studying the stills from the security video where the small boy can be seen walking with two other young boys . |
| 10 | " Ah , excuse me , They both turned to look at the winding-stair door , where the small attendant was peeking round the side , most of its body hidden in the twisted darkness beyond . |
| 11 | He waved inconsequentially towards the outdoor light , where the small rain was falling . |
| 12 | Before dawn , I was in the sleeping-bag , propping myself up on an elbow , Bible in one hand , torch in the other , flicking the beam periodically to the right of my legs , where the small aluminium pan and stove were struggling to boil water for tea . |
| 13 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 14 | As a private investigator , for instance , or earlier as a guide in the giant planet Worbali'n , where the smallest life form had teeth as ling as my arm . |
| 15 | He was not looking at me any more , but was staring out to sea where a small tanker , her navigation lights glowing bright in the falling darkness , nudged gingerly towards the bunkering buoys . |
| 16 | Karen looked sullenly down at the crazy paving , where a small ant was wending its way homeward with part of a dead butterfly on its back . |
| 17 | There is in any case , it is argued , less incentive for efficient production in a bureau than in a firm operating on a small profit margin where a small reduction in costs means a large increase in profits . |
| 18 | Closing the book , I went back to my cartooning stool , where a small circle of children awaited me . |
| 19 | Continue until just after it starts to take up the steep fellside again , where a small path branches off left . |
| 20 | The need for more space lead to the move to the present offices at Grosvenor Gardens House , where a small secretariat serves to administer the affairs of the Society . |
| 21 | In the case of a large community this may be less significant , but where a small community is described there can be no anonymity for anyone . |
| 22 | This does not , however , mean that high quality results can be achieved only by such methods : where a small volume of sections is involved , many of the techniques described in this chapter can easily be adapted for manual preparation of thin sections . |
| 23 | At the roadside on top of this col there is a boundary stone , the original Pierre-Saint-Martin itself , where a small ceremony takes place every 13 July . |
| 24 | She slipped her arm through her sister 's , and they went into the dining-room , where a small fire was burning . |
| 25 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 26 | The tourist will rent a small receiver for around £2 and press a button as he approaches any of the major buildings and monuments , where a small transmitter will then spout cultural , historical , artistic and commercial information at him in a choice of Italian , German , English or Spanish , at any hour of the day or night . |
| 27 | I found a niche where a small landslide had left a level lawn with a backing of turf ; and where the breeze still moved enough to allay the midges , and sat down to my picnic . |
| 28 | Athelstan stared across at the bed post where a small block of wood on which the carving had rested had no v opened outwards like a door . |
| 29 | But Richard brought up siege machines and began to bombard the walls , concentrating on the fourth side where a small town nestled at the foot of the citadel . |
| 30 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |