Example sentences of "small [noun sg] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work .
2 It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above .
3 Far ahead of Sharpe was the crossroads itself where the dark mass of fugitives was milling in confusion , while to the right , and acting somewhat as another bastion , was a smaller wood and a handful of cottages .
4 One result of UDCF 's restructuring was its decision to withdraw financing for GT Invoice Factors , a smaller company and a member of the Association of Invoice Factors .
5 He pushed across a small phial and a bottle of tablets .
6 In view of its relatively small budget and the size of the region , this is probably inevitable .
7 These priorities imply , on the domestic front , the attempt to maintain a continuing powerful role for the state , the economic dominance of a fairly small elite and an indifference to the welfare of rural peasant farmers , complicated as this may be by political loyalties to certain tribal groups .
8 There is a considerable number of evaluations of pilot or small projects involving a small catchment and a handful of farmers ( such as those undertaken routinely by FAO , IBRD , or other bilateral aid agencies ) .
9 She rented rooms from a woman whose husband died in Suez and had left her a small income and a house in Whitcher Place .
10 The remainder of the small intestine and the colon were removed .
11 A keen and powerful debater , he was not amused at the dreariness of the Executive 's meetings , the small talk and the administration ( never his strong point ) .
12 It brought to his notice the heap of auburn hair and , taking his time , he let his eyes stroll down a pinched but puckish face , breasts which looked firm though on the small side and the rest , as he would guess , in regular working order .
13 At the entrance a small boy and a youth were waiting .
14 In real life the playing are would be the size of a small village and every inch must be searched if you are to capture the flag .
15 A year at home with a small child and no recognition by a partner of the importance and difficulty of that role can reduce the most competent career woman to an anxious or depressed wreck .
16 I can only suggest that he considers Inductive Hearing with one small microphone and an amplifier .
17 Place a small towel or a piece of lint or soft fabric on top of the water .
18 Unfortunately the space beneath a car is much more accessible to a cat 's small body and the damage is easily done .
19 The project requires a flexible approach , demanding not only an analysis of the law but an economic and business approach to the nature of the small business and an understanding of small business computer systems .
20 Hollywood produced many films but it was a small town and the industry as we know it was controlled by a handful of men .
21 Some banks ' machines , particularly in Spain , may levy a small charge but a warning should always appear on screen before this is deducted .
22 This first sketch can be completed by adding the small eye and the hatchet shaped bill ( Figure 1 ) .
23 Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement .
24 Lowden have managed to pack a big sound into a small package and the end result is a guitar that can cope with anything from basic stage accompaniment to virtuoso-standard fingerpicking .
25 The register and index have to be open for inspection during business hours by any member without charge and by any other person on payment of a small fee and a copy of it or any part of it has to be supplied to anyone on payment of a modest charge .
26 Guardian readers are sufficiently interesting and distinctive that it is worth tolerating the statistical uncertainties caused by our small sample and the Guardian 's small readership .
27 Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell .
28 There was a small explosion and a flash from the flare as it curved into the air .
29 My first two carvings were produced from this branch : a small whale and an orangutan .
30 The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall .
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