Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 2 | As a result of these cases it is clear that relatively small differences in the drafting of a rent review clause may have great practical consequences . |
| 3 | In other words , the West has an interest in the maintenance of nationalism , but only in its most backward form : the sovereign nation-state , so long as it is powerless , dependent and relatively small . |
| 4 | Mrs Clamp is very old and extremely small . |
| 5 | Next came Mrs. Sutton 's shop — very old and very small — a two storey building with a roof of lovely weathered tiles . |
| 6 | It was pretty old and too small now , making me look skinnier than I was , but it would be all right for the trip . |
| 7 | There were two separate issues for the research : ( i ) which pupils would be included in the testing ; and , ( ii ) if a wide range of tests was to be developed , each of them would be taken by different and fairly small samples from among the target pupils , how could the comparability of the samples be checked ? |
| 8 | Data sent by residential and very small businesses will normally be sent on the usual voice line . |
| 9 | The narrow leaves are more grass-like and slightly smaller than those of B. echinosperma . |
| 10 | Dr Dan Wright , research officer , says : ‘ Our findings contrast very much with a similar but much smaller study in the US which showed that almost 100 per cent of the study remembered exactly what they were doing when Kennedy was killed . ’ |
| 11 | It can be as large or as small as you want it — a stately-home herb garden with grand borders , " knotted " beds , paving , pergolas and a pool with goldfish ( or carp , to be in keeping with the true tradition of the old monastery herb garden ) . |
| 12 | In most educational institutions teams are imbalanced ; if they are too large or too small they will be dysfunctional . |
| 13 | The caddis chooses its stones carefully , rejecting those that are too large or too small for the current gap in the wall , even rotating each stone until it achieves the snuggest fit . |
| 14 | Where adjoining houses were used , the halls and staircases were a waste of space , and in separate houses the accommodation was either too large or too small . |
| 15 | For example , in practice it is extremely difficult to make a brain lesion that entirely removes one part of the brain while leaving the rest intact ; they are either too large or too small . |
| 16 | We define the two conditions of ( exponent ) overflow and underflow , when the exponent becomes respectively too large or too small to be represented in floating-point format . |
| 17 | Despite visits to dozens of toy shops , all they could find were tricycles that were either too large or too small for their requirements . |
| 18 | The rate of weight increase is lower if the territory is too large or too small , relative to an intermediate optimum . |
| 19 | Are they too large or too small ? |
| 20 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |
| 21 | The very name of this comely and quite small village which is situated to the east of Kingston upon Hull attracts attention . |
| 22 | Again the Monkey-boy together with a rather fragile-looking , unusually pretty and even smaller friend , ‘ 'Artley ’ , proudly led away the horse . |
| 23 | erm but it 's the program , yes , it 's the application of complex programs to thee very sophisticated but very small computers , I think , which is of interest in this particular case . |
| 24 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 25 | His eyes are black and somewhat small , and he does peep so queerly with them ! |
| 26 | Monetarists argue that variations in the velocity of circulation ( V ) are predictable and moderately small , especially over the longer run . |
| 27 | The pattern , which continued into the last quarter of 1991 , was one of large periodic issues by tender or by auction and frequent and usually small issues of tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 28 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 29 | It feels compact and rather smaller than it actually is . |
| 30 | It was semi-automatic and very small . |