Example sentences of "[art] small [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smallest woodpecker of the region , the size of a Hedgesparrow ( p. 221 ) ; barred appearance is distinctive . |
| 2 | It 's the smallest type of businesses yeah . |
| 3 | I 've been there and I know , and my heart is sore all over for you , but just catch you feeling the smallest jot of sympathy for me . |
| 4 | There was only the smallest flicker of reaction on Eleanor 's beautiful face . |
| 5 | He paused before replying , then gave the smallest shake of his head . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 8 | Lino and block cutting tools , are the smallest style of carving chisels , V-tools and gouges , developed for cutting printing blocks . |
| 9 | Even if they had never contemplated the smallest act of resistance themselves , the notion of FAKINTIL in the hills with their leader had offered the possibility of freedom one day . |
| 10 | It is a neat irony that only by studying the largest structures in the Universe can we get an insight into the smallest structure of matter . |
| 11 | Similarly , as soon as he shows the smallest sign of being too cold , or too warm , his environment is manipulated to create the conditions of maximum comfort . |
| 12 | At the smallest sign of unusual activity they 'll blow the thing apart . ’ |
| 13 | The first is that a word is typically the smallest element of a sentence which has positional mobility — that is , the smallest that can be moved around without destroying the grammaticality of the sentence ( ignoring any semantic effects ) : |
| 14 | Whilst the smallest kind of town can only have served as a market point , those with populations exceeding 500 usually provided more extensive services to their localities , and some had developed specialised manufactures even if on a modest scale . |
| 15 | The smallest kind of horse is the Shetland pony . |
| 16 | The front teeth or incisors are shaped so they can cut the smallest blade of grass and are sometimes known as the chopping teeth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Across a range of questions , the pattern was consistent : the first set contained the largest proportion of students who became less honest ; next came the second set ; honourably in the rear were the astronomers , with the smallest proportion of students who became less honest . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | In all my years of experience , I would suggest that only the smallest minority of pension holders have appreciated the fact that returns on death were derisory , and that there was a relationship between the benefits on death and the benefits at the end . |
| 21 | If you are aiming almost for pure comedy , then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense . |
| 22 | The last thing she wanted was even the smallest degree of intimacy in this relationship . |
| 23 | The smallest sandgrouse of the region , looking rather dark from its close barring , and one of the shorter-tailed group . |
| 24 | One must be grateful for the smallest grain of humour from the Germans . |
| 25 | And , since he took as starting points the avoidance of waste and of idleness , he argued : let care be taken not to leave in the instance of any individual whatever the smallest fragment of ability unemployed . " |
| 26 | Moreover , no ruler had a title longer or more complex than that of the tsar ; and none was more ready to resent the omission of even the smallest part of it . |
| 27 | Much the smallest swift of the region , distinguished by short square tail , and from all except White-rumped Swift by conspicuous broad white rump ; throat whitish . |
| 28 | The smallest owl of the region . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | There never was more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything concerned with railroads or near them . |