Example sentences of "small [coord] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 2 | Austria 's smallest and most westerly province , bordering on the Tryol , Lichtenstein , Switzerland and Germany , Vorarlberg has been dubbed The Children 's Wonderland . |
| 3 | LITTLE GULL Larus minutus The smallest and most tern-like gull of the region . |
| 4 | ‘ To Lawrence , the world is intrinsically a beautiful place , yet we will turn it into filth to get a smaller and less beautiful object out of it . ’ |
| 5 | Here , in the valley , the world seems to be constructed on a smaller and more delicate scale ; the fields are mere paddocks , so reduced that from this height their hedgerows appear a network of dark-green threads overspreading the paler green of the grass … such is the vale of Blackmoor . ’ |
| 6 | Magritte 's career has not been examined in such detail in Britain since Sylvester curated a smaller and more exclusive exhibition for the Tate Gallery in 1969 . |
| 7 | The Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) , the ANC 's smaller and more radical rival , suffered setbacks in April with the deaths of several prominent members in separate incidents . |
| 8 | Although a spouse may be protected if he or she stays in the home , if the partner goes into permanent residential care , the spouse may want to move into smaller and more appropriate accommodation . |
| 9 | A new national organisation he believed should be on a smaller and more economical scale than required by the struggle up to 1833 ; functioning as a watchdog over legislation and supplying information to ministers and public its style had to be ‘ very prudent and discreet ’ . |
| 10 | By about 1740 and probably earlier a definite distinction had emerged between the ‘ formal Cabinet ’ , a relatively large body which included a number of holders of great court and ceremonial offices , and the ‘ effective Cabinet ’ , a much smaller and more compact group of ministers . |
| 11 | The little border town of Ludlow may well be a twelfth-century example of planning on a smaller and more rudimentary scale , but the most notable examples come from the thirteenth century — Salisbury , New Winchelsea , the five bastide towns laid out by Edward I in North Wales , and part of Kingston-upon-Hull , laid out by Edward from 1293 onwards . |
| 12 | INTEREST in portable computers of all kinds has been stimulated by the Gulf War , when everything from tanks and armoured vehicles to airmen 's flying helmets were fitted with a range of increasingly smaller and more rugged technology . |
| 13 | The command hierarchy in such an enterprise may be more clearly structured , and responsibilities better delimited , than in a smaller and more informal partnership . |
| 14 | It has always happened , of course , but in the old days , when the stock market was a smaller and more human place , the intimacy of dealing lent some protection . |
| 15 | An instrument of smaller but yet great importance was the " talkie cinema " acquired by the School at about the same time . |
| 16 | The second , smaller but also growing band , will be teachers who are strong enough and courageous enough to stick their necks out publicly . |
| 17 | A slightly smaller but more beautiful painting from Marden 's ‘ Grove group ’ had sold in these rooms in November for $750,000 . |
| 18 | Unidentified selection mechanisms apparently favour small or even dwarfish size in Nephila males . |
| 19 | Thus the chorus — often relegated to a small or virtually non-existent role in similar Italian operas , comes to the fore as an integral part of the action , lending real drama and vitality to scenes such as the appearance of the avenging sea monster . |
| 20 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 21 | More significantly , perhaps , I was annoyed because I expect this financial services organisation to recognise the totality of its relationship to me when making decisions in respect of specific transactions ; in this case to realise that its interest in my house should be adequate collateral for a small and presumably temporary overdraft . |
| 22 | Miranda thought of M. Apéritif last night , and decided she would let him go further when she next saw him , in spite of the lizard darting of his small and oddly hard tongue in the kiss she 'd allowed him at the door of the hotel . |
| 23 | This small and seemingly harmless creature carries a hidden weapon . |
| 24 | This can only be the web of Textrix denticulata , a small and prettily marked relative of the large house spider , which makes sheet webs in houses and outhouses . |
| 25 | Claiming that he is not ‘ presenting any idyllic picture of the rural parish ’ , Eliot takes as his ‘ norm , the ideal of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil … with a kind of unity which may be designed , but which also has to grow through generations ’ . |
| 26 | It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game . |
| 27 | The hierarchy was headed by the imperial family and court nobility , but these comprised a numerically small and socially insignificant group , largely detached from the rest of society . |
| 28 | Restored and repainted in RAF workshops it was being formally handed over — together with glasses of champagne Bourbon or Scotch — by the Ambassador 's wife in front of a small and mainly military audience . |
| 29 | Instead , the Government had supported a daily press in Dar es Salaam , which catered for a relatively small and mainly urban readership . |
| 30 | And Kraemer and Ossenkopp ( 1986 ) , in an experiment formally equivalent to that reported by Kraemer and Roberts , were able to find only a small and statistically unreliable effect using milk as the flavour ( see Fig. 4.3 ) . |