Example sentences of "[art] little [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis on cell lineage in the worm is a little misleading since the implication is that the behaviour of the cells is entirely determined only by the lineage and not by cell signals . |
| 2 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 3 | In any case the normal cost of equipping a good boat with an efficient crew would certainly not be higher , and probably be a little lower after the trade had settled down to its now increased dimensions than before . |
| 4 | These two reasons — the public sector 's ability to spread risk more thinly and the lower after-tax interest rate relevant to resources displaced from private consumption — justify the use of a public sector discount rate that is a little lower than the interest rate inclusive of tax and risk at which private firms must borrow . |
| 5 | Perhaps there are Leicester citizens who will feel just a little sorry if the bird we all love to hate were ever banished ; no longer to amaze us with squabbling antics in the garden , purposeful flight lines at the end of day , noisy pre-roost assemblies — and starling spectaculars at dusk . |
| 6 | Now let's assume that the grass is a little thicker and the putter looks an unsuitable club . |
| 7 | This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent . |
| 8 | The process is one of iteration with a submatrix of p vectors , where p is a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought , and involves the solution at each step of an eigenproblem of order p only . |
| 9 | It is for this reason that we choose p to be a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought . |
| 10 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 11 | On the negative side , the graphics are a little simplistic and the animation is sparse ( so why the multiload ? ) , but that does n't prevent Sly Spy from being a very good game . |
| 12 | At this point I was a little drowsy and the weakness in my joints had increased . |
| 13 | Make the loop just a little bigger than the outline of the web , place it behind the web , and then bring it towards you slowly so that the main radial threads all touch the wire at the same time . |
| 14 | Place the pool in position , check the edges are level and make any necessary adjustments to the hole , which should be a little wider than the shape |
| 15 | With IBM UK Ltd now outsourcing that sort of ancillary operation , it is a little surprising that the company bid for the contract to run the UK government 's Citizen 's Charter national help-line , a phone service intended to provide advice on how to go about complaining about the performance of 1,400 government services — but it did bid , and it has won the contract . |
| 16 | And my hair was gingery , more or less the colour of the map you know , or a little darker than the colour of the map . |
| 17 | Diderot was a provincial , from Langres in Champagne , where his father was a master cutler , who would eventually leave him a comfortable inheritance , a little less than the salary of a professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 18 | He stayed in the overtaking lane , averaging only a little less than the car 's maximum speed , the quadruple headlights sweeping a path for the commanding prow of the Jaguar . |
| 19 | Is not my hon. Friend a little surprised that the Opposition seek to raise that point , given that the 1990 Act and other measures demonstrate that every major environmental initiative this century has been implemented by a Conservative Government ? |
| 20 | I am a little surprised that the Planning Committee decided to go to look at the hockey club but not eighty seven houses in . |
| 21 | Hoplosternum thoracatum reaches a length of about 18cm — the female is a little smaller than the male at 16cm . |
| 22 | Cut a little smaller than the area of the runner , and sandwich the netting between floor and carpet . |
| 23 | The male is a little larger than the female and has very bright orange ventral fins when in breeding colouration . |
| 24 | The photograph shows a typical IDC type connector , this is a SCSI connector ( 50 way ) which is a little larger than the IDE type ( 40 way ) but the fitting instructions are identical . |
| 25 | Roll out the remaining red fondant to a circle a little larger than the cake and use to cover the top of the postbox , overlapping the fondant ‘ collar ’ slightly all the way round . |
| 26 | The two year deal took nine months to negotiate , according to Neuron Data chairman and chief executive officer Patrick Perez , and is worth a little more than the company 's entire turnover for the month of December last year — see below . |
| 27 | Eighty billion dollars was a little more than the mind of Colt could cope with . |
| 28 | Mercury 's perihelion advanced a little more than the theory said it ought to . |
| 29 | So I , I would n't to be drawn on that Royal Doulton was late into this cycle and it 's a little later than the publishing companies coming out . |
| 30 | This is that we should , as scientists , be even a little worried if the origin of life did not seem miraculous to our own human consciousness . |