Example sentences of "[is] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the lower third of each labium minus is the small opening of Bartholin 's gland , which produces a viscid secretion to aid lubrication in sexual intercourse .
2 A little further north is the small village of Conisholme which for many years has been famous for its Appleby 's Ice Cream establishment .
3 Direct identification of benefits is difficult , but the substantial advantage to US industry is the small army of people skilled in the techniques of biomolecular manipulation that research produces .
4 Its great advantage over conventional techniques is the small sample size needed : typically 1000 times smaller .
5 Now if you look at the test statistics there there are two versions of test statistics , one is an asymptotic version , right , assuming that we 've got an incredibly large sample and one is the small sample , that 's the , that 's the L M version .
6 On the edge of Caxias , close to the Petrobras refinery — the largest in South America — is the small settlement where Iara 's mother lives .
7 The compartment of the carriage is the small camp , everything out there is the big camp .
8 ‘ This is a warning that I flagged at the Council conference two years ago : where is the small firm going to be ?
9 Just 10 minutes from Bodrum is the small resort of Bitez , a multi-activity centre offering Dinghy sailing ( p22 ) and Windsurf holidays ( p34 ) , as well as accommodation for non-sailors .
10 The final testimony to the vitality of European civilization in this period is the small concession which it made to reciprocal influences from the world outside .
11 One of my favourite festivals is the small winter ale festival in Exeter .
12 The end of innocence can be the abrupt finality of death and the most moving representation of childhood in the exhibition is the small sketch made by Allen Ramsay of his baby son ( 1743 ) , a memento mori of great emotional power without a hint of mawkishness .
13 To the left is a scaled-down replica of the Eiffel Tower and farther up the hill is the small church of St Lawrence .
14 When you do , the first notable sight along the road is the small church of Gotein , two miles below Mauléon , which has a particularly good clocher-calvaire or saw-toothed bell-wall with , at the foot of it , a porch which is actually wider than the nave of the church itself and a covered wooden staircase going up the side .
15 It is the small company which soaks up the unemployed , rather than the larger company , which of late has been shedding workers in massive numbers .
16 This trend towards the construction of lexicons using machine-readable dictionaries ( MRDs ) follows the realisation by many that a major restriction on the functionality of many NLP systems is the small size of their lexicons [ Alshawi 1988 ] .
17 Carol White was still having problems with sequencing at three-and-a-half-years : ‘ Again and again , there are … indications of how slight is the small child 's sense of continuity ’ ( White , 1954 , p.56 ) .
18 Confronted with equations like ‘ one penny saved times ’ and confounded by the producer 's sales talk , how is the small manufacturer to appreciate what makes the difference between ‘ cheap and cheerful ’ and ‘ cheap and nasty ’ ?
19 An excellent alternative popular with the fish , is the small clay saucers sold for pots to stand on .
20 concerned is the small amount of paperwork all right .
21 The advantages of a brewery lease is the small amount of capital needed to set up .
22 The bar here is also popular with the locals , as is the small cafe for light snacks .
23 Sited ten miles west of Oxford is the small market town of Witney .
24 IT IS THE small print which usually deceives the public , but rarely the players ( to whom it is second nature to bypass the spirit of any radical change of legislation ) .
25 At the head of Loch Leven is the small town of Kinlochleven , a very convenient base for their exploration .
26 Less than two and a half miles away is the small town of San Donato in Poggio , with some shops and one of the several beautiful 12th/13th century romanesque churches in this area .
27 But perhaps the most interesting extension that can be made to a Murten visit is to make the very short journey of only 8km ( 5 miles ) either by road No 1 , or by rail on the same line as from Kerzers to Murten The destination is the small town of Avenches , which stands on a hill just north of the bypassing main road No1 which runs across the Mittelland plateau from Bern to Lausanne .
28 ‘ There is the small matter of a splattered ship , ’ she reminded him .
29 Undoubtedly this is the small mine up in the head of Red Dell .
30 Ahead of you is the small house ( l/500 ) from 1761 by Matthias Hummel , adapted in 1896 for Pavel Švanda ze Semčic , the theatre director .
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