Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has thus fared better than a small party could expect , maintaining a PS almost equal to its PV and even on occasion slightly in excess of it . |
| 2 | Small may be beautiful — but probably only if the small farm is run as a part-time unit or as a leisure interest . |
| 3 | " Another little Eva " they teased long before the small child knew what they were talking about . |
| 4 | If expense must be curtailed , then it is probably better to have a plentiful supply ( at least 100 ) of two or three sorts rather than a small quantity of many ; it can be exasperating to have insufficient blocks of a kind to complete a construction . |
| 5 | The letter bomb attacks have been linked to last Wednesday 's elaborate bomb hoaxes at the offices of leading oil companies in Aberdeen and police believe that a rogue loner , rather than a small terrorist group , is responsible . |
| 6 | At the age of eleven I became an errand boy for a working tailor , and every Saturday , and perhaps on an evening in the week , delivered the suits and costumes that he had made , though often the finished article was well behind the promised date , so the errand boy received critical comments rather than a small tip . |
| 7 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 8 | ‘ If we have to cut , we will make a large number of small cuts , rather than a small number of large cuts . |
| 9 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 10 | Many of the share purchasers now were large institutional buyers rather than the small saver or investor , the ‘ little man ’ or aged widow beloved of government propaganda . |
| 11 | They were to be very ‘ diplomatic ’ with recalcitrant poor peasants , and on no account were they to take to court more than a small minority in any one area , even if a majority were guilty . |
| 12 | After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light . |
| 13 | The crisis arose from an extraordinarily parochial subject , namely whether the small Westland group of helicopter manufacturers , situated in Yeovil in the West Country , should be purchased by a European consortium or by the US-dominated Sikorsky — Fiat group . |
| 14 | She set off with only a little food and she had n't gone far when a small boy appeared right in the middle of the road . |
| 15 | One of the difficulties of proceeding with the single currency , particularly if a small number of member states within the Community were to proceed on their own , is that it would become increasingly difficult for others to join them at a later stage . |
| 16 | In the 1830s , for example , every newspaper publisher was required to pay a duty on each newspaper published , a duty on each advertisement , as well as a small paper duty . |
| 17 | It was divided into three compounds , as well as a small section for high security prisoners ( there were only three of the latter at the time I visited ) . |
| 18 | As well as a small population ( 4. 1 million ) and this embarrassment of hydrocarbon reserves ( 715 tonnes of oil equivalent , for every inhabitant of Norway ) , Norway also has an abundance of hydro-electric power . |
| 19 | It is designed for use with the company 's 3050 Creative Workstation business workstation series , as well as the small desktop engineering workstation series the 2050G/FS , the latter for computer-aided design and other engineering applications . |
| 20 | The problem which arose when Richard 's army arrived was caused by Tancred 's withholding of a dowry promised to Richard 's sister Joan — as well as the small matter of a legacy left by William II to Henry , who had been his father-in-law . |
| 21 | This may be related to the maintenance of hepatopetal portal blood flow as well as the small diameter of the shunt . |
| 22 | Even when a small boy I had said to my mother : ‘ How can Mary be my auntie ? |
| 23 | Even when a small office was given almost as an act of charity , there would usually be a political motive in the background . |
| 24 | The Kunsthalle , a space ( usually municipally funded ) in which artists can exhibit their works outside academic and museum constraints , is largely unknown in the United States , even though every small city in the country seems to have built a ‘ contemporary art space ’ over the last ten years . |
| 25 | Pellet formation takes place in the stomach , and it comes about because the small size of the pyloric opening connecting the stomach to the rest of the digestive tract and its high placement prevent the passage of larger particles into the intestines ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) . |
| 26 | The same madness is spreading everywhere as the small business crisis deepens . |
| 27 | They had first met fifteen years earlier when a small cadre of SAS men , led by D'Arcy , had visited the Mont Louis Commando Training School close to Andorra for an exchange visit . |
| 28 | Carefully reposition the bridge and press firmly until a small bead of glue appears around the edge . |
| 29 | ( ii ) Expose the body wall by grasping the skin of the abdomen immediately above and below the midline with fingers and thumb and pulling simultaneously towards the head and feet ( this procedure can be made easier if a small midline knick is first made in the skin with a pair of scissors ) . |
| 30 | The General tucked the baton under his armpit and clapped his hands softly as the small orchestra walked through his study . |