Example sentences of "[subord] [art] little [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver . |
| 2 | ‘ Do not judge these industrial towns by their faces ; they are the most alive places in England ; they are more interesting than the little dead country towns which we so like to look at : think of Manchester , Birmingham with their concerts , theatres , parks and art galleries … |
| 3 | Icing for covering cakes can be quite stiff , although a little liquid glucose ( about 1 teaspoon to 450g/1lb icing sugar ) could be added for some softness . |
| 4 | More than a little private problem : On the eve of Nigel Lawson 's key address to the Conservative conference , Roger Bootle says the Chancellor must take the balance of payments deficit more seriously , and Nicholas Faith argues that the Tories have failed the entrepreneur |
| 5 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 6 | None of this suggests that the NUAAW is going to sanction any widespread militant activity other than a little judicious sabre-rattling by its left-wing faction during negotiations on the AWB . |
| 7 | What reality lay behind this piece of youthful bombast — written when Joyce was still only sixteen — proved no more than a little amateur gathering of information by a schoolboy in association with other schoolboys . |
| 8 | Everyone went hungry that day , because the little polar bear scoffed every pack lunch we had . |
| 9 | They arrived early enough to consume a vast spaghetti carbonara and a litre of house wine before the little Italian place became crowded . |
| 10 | After a little tense silence that made it seem as though the very air were holding it breath , he said very evenly , and with dangerous softness . |
| 11 | After a little light refreshment the soldiers managed to swap notes with MP 's and ministers . |
| 12 | When the Little Gidding community was set up , Nicholas Ferrar declared , ‘ Since the great things of the earth vanish and come to nought , let us set our desires and designs where they can not fail . ’ |
| 13 | A heavy wooden desk with a large-scale ordnance survey map of the area pinned out across it , and some papers which Donaldson was trying to read upside-down when the little fat man walked in . |
| 14 | Or , he added privately , when the little Indian gentleman who was the only one who could access the records on the computer returned from sick leave . |
| 15 | The audience went immediately silent as the little tiny diva stood centre-stage and ‘ belted out , in a voice much older than her years : |
| 16 | She remembered Abdu as the little Nubian boy sent out to fetch the morning editions of the European newspapers . |
| 17 | She put him down as the little grey man had foretold on a huge grey granite stone , pitted and scarred and bald . |
| 18 | He watched warily as the little fat chap with bits of paper in his hat leapt to his feet . |
| 19 | When a little brown bat detects an insect and starts to move in on an interception course , its click rate goes up . |
| 20 | Not more than half an hour had passed when a little grey tractor chugged into the car park . |
| 21 | ‘ Why do n't you go to sleep ? ’ she suggested with exasperation , though a little tiny part of her was rising to the verbal sparring with him , taking a perverse pleasure in the challenge of matching wits with him . |