Example sentences of "[subord] [art] small [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 2 | There is in any case , it is argued , less incentive for efficient production in a bureau than in a firm operating on a small profit margin where a small reduction in costs means a large increase in profits . |
| 3 | Closing the book , I went back to my cartooning stool , where a small circle of children awaited me . |
| 4 | This does not , however , mean that high quality results can be achieved only by such methods : where a small volume of sections is involved , many of the techniques described in this chapter can easily be adapted for manual preparation of thin sections . |
| 5 | Athelstan stared across at the bed post where a small block of wood on which the carving had rested had no v opened outwards like a door . |
| 6 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 7 | Chef Robert Kranenborg has a Chef 's Table in the kitchen , where a small number of guests are invited to dine on special occasions to watch the brigade at work . |
| 8 | This type of format can also be used where a smaller number of entrants is expected , but these competitions do offer an opportunity for getting some useful creative ideas from the public . |
| 9 | There never was more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything concerned with railroads or near them . |
| 10 | More women than men had children , although the small proportion of men with children confirms their limited involvement in family relationships . |
| 11 | The results also show that most of the effect on the perceived depth can be attributed to the presence of the vertical perspective cues although the small effect of horizontal perspective cues was present in the estimates of eight out of ten observers and was statistically significant . |
| 12 | Engines and transmissions are usually made by car firms themselves , but with larger production runs than for cars , so the small scale of overseas car output makes it still sensible to import most of these things from Japan . |
| 13 | As it drove slowly away towards the town , so the small knot of idlers and gawpers dispersed , back to the quays and the eating houses to tell about what they 'd seen , and Huy and Merymose were left alone . |
| 14 | He had , he said , received little of ‘ Africans ’ , except a small parcel from Petrus Hotton of Leyden , who had in turn received them from Denmark , ‘ one of their ships touching last year at the Cape ’ . |
| 15 | There was little else , except a small bookshelf from which he took one of several charts . |
| 16 | The real problem of inter-war British politics was that no major political party , except a small section of a much diminished and effete Liberal Party , was willing to take the political risk of expanding the economy out of the slump by the use of government intervention to stimulate and regulate the economy . |
| 17 | The central charged domain was not sufficient for either heteromeric interaction with RAP30 or transcription activity by our assays although a small portion of the N-terminal sequence of this domain stimulated association with RAP30 ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 18 | Although a small proportion of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis develop colitis only after the biliary presentation — follow up of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis patients ( particularly those with pathogen negative diarrhoea ) has not yet yielded any patients with non-infective colitis . |
| 19 | The fruit machines were proving fruitful and the Club improved the changing rooms , bought new dining room furniture and tarmacadamed the car park , although a small part of it was sold to the S.E.B. for £75 for use as a sub-station . |
| 20 | Leaving our Teutonic heroines behind , we carried happily on along the grassy ridge to Meall Corranaich , although a small matter of some concern was that Ben Lawers had started to cloud over . |
| 21 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 22 | Although a small number of inter-denominational schools have been built in the UK , they are normally the result of neighbouring schools coming together from weakness and threat of closure . |
| 23 | Furthermore , nutritional treatment with enteral feeds in which nitrogen is provided as a hydrolysate of whole protein has been shown to be inferior to drug treatment in two large studies involving adults , although a small study in children showed equal efficacy to corticosteroids . |
| 24 | Although a small engagement by later standards , this battle at Gumbinnen , and the fact that Samsonov 's encircling movement to the south had been detected , induced Prittwitz to call off the action . |
| 25 | Similarly , although a smaller percentage of cases were reported from places some distance from a court , all regions included such localities . |
| 26 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 27 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 28 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 29 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 30 | Both Friends of the Earth and former CFC manufacturers , ICI , have acknowledged that the scheme has failed to collect more than a small proportion of CFCs from old appliances . |