Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 32 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |
| 33 | One thing you must not do , however , is add more than a small amount of paint to control surfaces . |
| 34 | IF it 's more than a small amount that you 're drinking and also a regular thing then booze may not be quite as harmless as you think . |
| 35 | This will be the case where negotiations or discussions are extended to embrace more than a small group of people or where they are at such an advanced stage that the target is reasonably confident that an offer will be made for its shares ; where secrecy can not be maintained ; or if security is breached . |
| 36 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
| 37 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
| 38 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 39 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 40 | No more than a small bullet that would make her bleed . |
| 41 | This meant that not only did the boots weigh more than a small car , but I was obliged to wear four pairs of socks to stop my feet moving about in them and turning my heels into chilli con carne . |
| 42 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 43 | Erm you could n't put erm anything that was you know more than a small pedal bin size . |
| 44 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 45 | It is also common to say that there will be no liability in respect of a single claim of less than a small sum and then only when the aggregate of all such small claims exceeds a certain sum . |
| 46 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 47 | It then follows that unc is an element of S smaller than the smallest element r of S. This absurdity leads us to conclude that |
| 48 | Whiskas Kitten Food is highly digestible , important when a small stomach has to meet a large energy need . |
| 49 | If there is enough snow to make a really big snowman , he may be as tall as Mr A. on the first day , but as he melts , he will shrink to be as tall as Miss B. and then as small as the smallest child , until he finally disappears . |
| 50 | For a time briefer than the smallest period measurable by today 's clocks , the universe grew ever faster , as energy stored up in some hitherto unsuspected field of force was released . |
| 51 | It proved unworkable because the smaller number of enquiries in rural districts meant that experience was never gained and the lack of anonymity within small communities meant that the enquiry rate was unlikely to increase . |
| 52 | This raises a lump which may become as big as a small orange . |
| 53 | The whole setup weighs about the same as a small combo , but is easier to carry because there 's less bulk . |
| 54 | His outbursts of bilious misogyny are about as shocking as a small boy shouting ‘ Bum ! ’ |
| 55 | An important reason for this is that it is an entirely partial approach as explained in the section discussing qualifications to the theoretical results , and also because such a case by case approach is never capable of examining anything other than a small minority of all mergers . |
| 56 | Supporters insist nothing would be lost other than a small car park and the steps leading up to the Prado 's ‘ Goya ’ entrance . |
| 57 | It would appear that the only Shetlanders who have reason to go into the estates at all , other than a small number of professional Shetlanders who have incomer friends who live there , are young Shetlander girls who are willing to babysit when most of the women in a social circle are attending the same function , or Shetlanders supplying some domestic service to individual households on the estates . |
| 58 | It was as wide as a small room , but there were bulky pieces of old furniture against the walls between the doors , and Anne was forced to squeeze through a narrow and irregular middle path . |
| 59 | This is especially true if a small area only has been tessellated . |