Example sentences of "[det] the small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than half the small peasant farms are squeezed onto just 16 per cent of the land . |
| 2 | Queueing or having to wait in shops is disliked ; so are certain kinds of shops — in some the large supermarket , and in some the small corner shop . |
| 3 | And now then , all the small stuff was going as well do you see , for firewood , for the the stuff . |
| 4 | So I said There 's no way that what you 've just told me will go in an hour , I said It 'll take at least a couple of hours and what about all the small stuff he 'll have in the house ? |
| 5 | After more anxious discussion , the woman who had come down with the leaves , bony and greyish of skin with her hair wrapped in a yellow turban , poured half , then all the small bottle of gin into the steaming mixture and ceremoniously put it in the centre of the floor . |
| 6 | All the small band of volunteers found were trees now reaching 30 feet in height and ballast that was impossible to follow on foot . |
| 7 | I 've never been particularly good at chatting up women although I 've always liked women and sex , so the idea of cutting out all the small talk seemed both convenient and appealing to me . |
| 8 | Because Saturn , Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn are now challenged by the Sun in Aries , you are urged to do your sums this April , read all the small print and then take the initiative over joint financial arrangements or business affairs . |
| 9 | Whole group drama is best seen as an organisational strategy , a way of organising all the small group and individual work which takes place within a unifying fictional context . |
| 10 | We illustrate ways in which these combine with each other and with wider sets of social relations by using the examples of the development of radical forms of local politics in both the small borough of Clay Cross and in the very large Greater London Council . |