Example sentences of "small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timing of when to do the turn is particularly important in anything other than in dead flat water , since the slope of even the smallest wave can be used to bank off , thereby helping to maintain speed . |
| 2 | She had to be one of the fastest production boats in the islands ; her twin big-block engines could hurl the three-ton wedge-shaped hull at over eighty miles an hour , and it worried neither McIllvanney nor Bellybutton that at such a speed a man could not hear himself scream and that even the smallest wave shook the bones right out of their flesh . |
| 3 | The advent of small sample systems , in particular accelerator mass spectrometry ( AMS , see p. 122 ) has placed all but the very smallest objects within reach of radiocarbon : AMS only requires about 1 milligram of carbon . |
| 4 | In addition , Kapok tends to mould well , even into the smallest objects , without the problems of lumpiness . |
| 5 | At the smallest noise she held nervously to Moore 's arm . |
| 6 | When the kth record is encountered , a random value , u k , in the range 0 to 1 is generated ; the final sample is to consist of those records associated with the n smallest values of u produced . |
| 7 | The most populous state , California , has nearly fifty representatives while the smallest states have only one . |
| 8 | ‘ Well ? ’ said Calatin who was , truth to tell , becoming just the smallest bit afraid of this strange , golden-eyed creature , but who would not have dreamed of showing it , because you did not show discourtesy to guests , not if you wanted business from them . |
| 9 | ‘ When — when I feel — I feel even the smallest bit like her , when I feel in sympathy . ’ |
| 10 | But she did n't respond — at least she did n't do that ! — or only a little bit , only the very smallest bit , because it was so very sweet , so very exciting , so very much what she had always hoped a kiss might be , and if he believed it was what she wanted , why not let him think so ? |
| 11 | From this piece , cut out a small round for the smallest parcel . |
| 12 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 13 | For the moment , the smallest PC in the world is the Olivetti Quaderno ; around the size and weight of a hefty paperback . |
| 14 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , yesterday defended the testing of birds even in the smallest laying flocks . |
| 15 | The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus . |
| 16 | At Cannock , for once , they are on record , and here many of the smallest subtenants were entered as ‘ landless ’ in a survey of the manor . |
| 17 | Moreover , there can be many bats and small-to medium-sized mammals ( arboreal ) from the smallest marsupials to the smaller monkeys , in contrast to the larger mammals confined to the forest floor where food is always scarce , and therefore there are fewer species of them . |
| 18 | The smallest user estimated an average use of two to three hours a month . |
| 19 | The energy spectrum of atmospheric turbulence persists down to the smallest scales , and to trap the maximum amount of energy the valves must be as small and numerous as possible , The payload of Daedalus 's new craft will be conventionally suspended from cords around its rim . |
| 20 | The smallest category comprises those that have actually become minor classics . |
| 21 | The unification of two categories is the smallest category that extends both of them , if such a category exists , otherwise the unification is undefined . |
| 22 | The radius at which the outer orbits develop loops and become self-intersecting is called the ‘ outer Lindblad resonance ’ ( OLR ) , and the mean radius of the smallest orbit of the middle family to be self-intersecting is called the ‘ inner Lindblad resonance ’ ( ILR ) . |
| 23 | The lady prioress glowered at me , shrugged , and with ill grace took me back to her own chamber across the cloister garden where she poured me the smallest goblet of wine I had ever seen . |
| 24 | Now daddy 's got the smallest caterpillar . |
| 25 | Consider , insists Wade , the office of Secretary of State with the smallest budget of the Cabinet Departments yet arguably the greatest status in the system ( Wade 1979 , p. 354 ) . |
| 26 | One of his specialities is minimal invasive surgery ; executing the maximum work through the smallest incision . |
| 27 | Even the smallest kittens , they noticed , were acting out attacks either on other members of their own species or on prey animals . |
| 28 | The Shetland pony is one of the smallest ponies in the world and it can be ridden by very small and light people . |
| 29 | Incorporating the above terms into equation ( 1 ) for A-U on U-A stacking , corresponding to the smallest base pair stacking exothermicity ( -23 kJ mol -1 ) of all the nearest-neighbour interactions reported by Freier et al. |
| 30 | The smallest owl of the region . |