Example sentences of "and [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Afterwards , they sat around the deck , and the smallest order was received with an angry look . |
2 | Within Inner London , Lewisham experienced the largest increase in GRE per head in the first period , an intermediate change in the next period , and the smallest increase in the third period . |
3 | In contrast Lambeth had one of the smaller changes in the first period , the second largest in the next , and the smallest increase in the third year . |
4 | They went for the throat or the genitals , and the smallest scratch from their long black claws could poison a man to death . |
5 | The largest capacity box of 1.2cu ft holds the equivalent of 48 × 12oz cans and the smallest capacity model holds nine 12oz cans . |
6 | The STM can give an accurate one ; and the smallest circuit features are still several hundred atoms in size — easy for the STM to resolve . |
7 | A few evenings on this field , which had previously seemed barren , produced : crotal and rumbler bones ; medieval and Georgian buckles ; fifty copper coins ( 17th to 19th century ) ; buttons , a 17th century spoon ; a piece of 18th century watch fob ; and the smallest barrel lock that I have ever seen . |
8 | Bewildered , she followed him upstairs , then listened in a daze while he outlined his plan for converting the master bedroom into a lounge , and the smallest bedroom into a kitchenette . |
9 | They derive from both the operation of large units ( often highly mechanised and characterised by monoculture and high energy demands sometimes supplied from local sources ) ; and the small peasantry itself which has to work for part of its income on larger enterprises . |
10 | But the sun had shone , and the small church , massed with early daffodils , narcissi , hothouse lilies , was full to overflowing with guests in spite of the heavily whittled down list . |
11 | My eyes , however , were continuously drawn to the great Tor which loomed high above the abbey and the small church of St Michael on its summit . |
12 | Now the interior lighting is not adequate and comes mainly from the west and transept windows and the small apse and aisle windows . |
13 | The house lights went down and the small posse of hack musicians who slouched in the orchestra pit began to saw indifferently at their instruments . |
14 | The remainder and promotional floor has only two stands left , and the small press area is full . |
15 | It was a good decade for the rentier and the small investor . |
16 | We were reluctant to submit patients with very poor prognosis to a two week course of radiotherapy and the small proportion entered reflects the extent of disease and poor general condition in this elderly group who are referred for laser treatment . |
17 | When the famous peacock screen folded its tail and disappeared into the floor of the stage and the small orchestra began to play she was ready and waiting , standing on the slight rise looking directly at a stage which appeared suspended in the air against the night sky . |
18 | Once again it boils down to confidence , and the small test I recommend on page 14 for finding out the colours that make you feel secure , can apply just as well to style . |
19 | The signalbox that controlled the junction is shown as a small building marked S B. Signals are shown by dots identified by the initials S P , and a milepost on the joint line is marked M P. The BCR 's single track curves away to the left from the junction points , and the small platform of the halt lies on the right of the line . |
20 | From it , she could see the narrow street and the small square where the traders were dismantling their stalls . |
21 | The rural sociological literature of the 1960s of the diffusionist school has demonstrated to the point of overkill the problem of the laggard and the small farmer ( Rogers & Shoemaker 1971 ) . |
22 | Hunger depends more on the access rural peasants have to land and the small farmer 's control of the land rather than the density of population . |
23 | The allele frequencies of the large ( 3.6 kilobase EcoRI fragment ) and the small fragment ( 3.5 kilobase EcoRI fragment ) were 80.6% and 19.4% respectively in controls , 55.4% and 44.6% in patients with gastric body ulcer , 79.4% and 20.6% in patients with gastro angular ulcer , 71.4% and 28.6% in patients with gastric antral ulcer , and 75.4% and 24.6% in patients with duodenal ulcer . |
24 | So you said here to replace the two pipes , the sort of medium pipe and the small pipe you 'll have one that 's a bit bigger than the big pipe . |
25 | From then on , Matilda was a welcome visitor to The Red House every single evening after school , and a very close friendship began to develop between the teacher and the small child . |
26 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
27 | On Sunday 10 May 1719 three warships subjected Castle Eilean Donan to a fierce bombardment which left gaping holes in its walls and the small garrison , in their alien white and yellow uniforms , surrendered , in the most gratifying fashion , to a few boatloads of English sailors , who seized the rebels ' stores and blew up the old fortress . |
28 | In the last week of October Moldavia faced the prospect of violence between the Moldavian ( Romanian ) majority and the small Gagauz minority living in the south of the republic . |
29 | Running a teashop in a small town may seem fun but it can be agonisingly hard work , as can the village shop , the country pub and the small hotel . |
30 | Ahusquy is , in its minuscule way , a spa , because on the hillside above it , a healthy kilometre 's walk from the road and the small hotel , is a source you can drink from — it is held to be good for kidney and bladder sufferers . |