Example sentences of "[adj] [art] small [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1971 the small group of regular journalists at the Old Bailey received £150 damages each for the intolerable insult of being collectively described in " The Spectator " as " beer-sodden hacks " . |
| 2 | She also found half a small loaf of brown bread . |
| 3 | Early on June 30 a small group of Army officers led by Lt. Mwamba Luchembe succeeded in broadcasting at regular intervals over 90 minutes a message on national radio saying that the Army had taken over in response to the food price rises . |
| 4 | The Alliance wanted television yet feared that it would be damaging to them , as Alliance MPs are allowed such a small share of parliamentary time . |
| 5 | It is not surprising that the Science and Engineering Research Council 's review committee found evidence for a low level of activity when they chose to compare such a small part of physics with the whole of chemistry or biology . |
| 6 | ‘ We think it 's pretty special ourselves — the land of beech trees , storks and marguerites — and you 've only seen such a small part of it . |
| 7 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 8 | Similarly , we will look at female crime and the reasons why this makes up such a small proportion of known criminality . |
| 9 | Teachers and parents have come to realise that the education of children is a joint responsibility , particularly as children are at school for such a small proportion of their waking lives . |
| 10 | In fact , if deposits and notes and coin fall by an equal amount , then notes and coin will shrink as a proportion of total assets because notes and coin formed such a small proportion of assets to begin with . |
| 11 | With such a small proportion of employed industrial workers in its ranks , the Party had great difficulty in carrying out its work in factory cells and trade-union groups . |
| 12 | Out of a total response of 1,397 , the following pattern of submissions emerged with regard to category of respondent : Employed solicitors were included in the ‘ other ’ category as they constituted such a small percentage of the total number of respondents . |
| 13 | Such a small amount of gaseous water would be in equilibrium with clouds of condensed water ice crystals only if the cloud tops were extremely cold . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 15 | Jesus had so much to communicate to people in such a small amount of time as we 've realised yes you can look upon the miracle of the cure of the blind man 's sight . |
| 16 | With such a small amount of cash recovered the chances of any of his former clients getting much of their money back is slim . |
| 17 | Since mallards do not dive there was presumably no great competition between the two species for food but with over 100 birds on such a small stretch of water it was difficult to see how there could be enough to go round . |
| 18 | Detectives say they 're horrified at the level of violence for such a small sum of money . |
| 19 | He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would . |
| 20 | Any conclusions based on data collected in such a small number of schools , from just three LEAs , are bound to have limited application and , clearly , there are dangers in making sweeping statements based on this research . |
| 21 | Even with such a small number of observations and an inherently biased sample such as the FT 30 , the results are quite plain to see ( Fig.5.6 ) . |
| 22 | So , as you can see for such a small number of people , we cover a large area , also some very diverse subjects . |
| 23 | The clinical and biological profiles of Zollinger-Ellison sydrome patients who develop fundic ECL cell tumours can not be determined from the study of such a small number of cases . |
| 24 | On the evening of September 7 a small army of security agents , including Wally and Valenzuela , began converging on the house . |
| 25 | Long before the appearance of Circular 10/65 a small number of primary school teachers had argued that secondary school selection should not determine the primary school curriculum . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All the small band of volunteers found were trees now reaching 30 feet in height and ballast that was impossible to follow on foot . |
| 28 | In the 1970s a small number of feminist critics accused most of these influential and widely cited texts of sexism , ( targets included A. Campbell et al , The American Voter ; G. Almond and S. Verba , The Civic Culture ; R. Lane , Political Life ; R. A. Dahl , Who Governs ? ) . |
| 29 | In 1997 a small number of experimental ‘ bail information schemes ’ successfully demonstrated that the provision of verified information enabled the Crown Prosecution Service to be more selective when opposing bail , as a result of which bail was granted more generously in those areas operating the scheme , without any increase in the failure rate ( Stone , 1989 ; Mair , 1999 ) . |
| 30 | He opened the door to the garden , and from Classes 2 and 3 a small group of boys in white running-shorts and T-shirts ran silently for the open air . |