Example sentences of "[coord] [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 | Extending from the individual partnerships there are wide varieties of helpful relationships between groups or classes of children and a department of a business or a small company going on to whole business/school schemes . |
| 10 | Advertisements in newspapers or magazines usually offer only one product , or a small range of goods . |
| 11 | But do not judge the size of a shoal by the number of fish you see rolling , for it could be a big shoal with just a few fish rolling , or a small shoal with all the fish rolling . |
| 12 | Then smudge downwards towards the lashes , using a cotton bud or a small brush . |
| 13 | In 1730 Miller makes a specific request for ‘ cuttings or a small part of your sort of Cistus 's , which is a tribe of plants that we have very few of ’ . |
| 14 | A small change in pronunciation by the user , or a small error in earlier processing will have a large effect on the description at the lexical level . |
| 15 | Pick off the animals which float to the surface with a paint-brush or a small spoon , and rinse them in clean water before examining them . |
| 16 | T. D. People were scared of you — did n't matter whether you were a big man or a small man . |
| 17 | One smoke alarm may be enough if you live in a mobile home or a small bungalow . |
| 18 | They gather together in a dense fleet a thousand or more strong , and paddle steadily towards an inlet or a small bay , splashing vigorously with their wings and feet . |
| 19 | We believe that the diagnosis of hiatal hernia has been over exagerated and only manometric studies combined with precise endoscopic evaluation can say whether we are dealing with a true hiatal hernia or a small initial Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 20 | The frosts and lack of plant growth will serve to make molehills stand out more , and as moles thrive in light soils , their mounds are a good source of clean local earth for potting up a floral arrangement or a small tree . |
| 21 | Whether borrowing on a large scale or a small scale , competent professional financial advice is absolutely essential . |
| 22 | Drizzle over the petits fours from a fork or a small piping bag . |
| 23 | Choose from a bunny brooch set with emeralds ( £44.95 ) , a golf club with a cultured pearl ball ( Pounds 24.95 ) , a hand-enamelled golf bag disc ( £39.95 ) , a hand-painted bone china rose ( £29.95 ) or a small golf bag ( £34.95 ) . |
| 24 | Above the mantelpiece was a series of display shelves , each niche holding a shepherdess in Dresden china , or a small bronze . |
| 25 | It is always difficult to judge whether a government is better off , in terms of parliamentary safety , with a large or a small majority . |
| 26 | Try offering a titbit , or a small quantity of nuts in your hand as the mare goes in and out at shoulder height . |
| 27 | For a cup full of tea or a small can of coke , picking up dog ends to get a cheap smoke . |
| 28 | Quite ordinary buildings — a Kirin beer hall built in the 1930s , for example — or a small stand of camphor trees , survived at a distance of only 700 metres from the epicentre . |
| 29 | Now I think of an animal or a small child depositing its excreta in the wrong place so as to annoy its owner or parent . |
| 30 | This forestalls any wrong assumptions about immature behaviour for the child 's age or a small child being older than appearance suggests . |