Example sentences of "small and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They still guard the interests of the smallest and most protectionist of the country 's auctioneers who would be bankrupted by an open market . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The French are pragmatic to the point of openness over their illegal activities but in the end it is the smallest and most immoral of them all , Mossad , which is the most efficient . |
| 4 | Austria 's smallest and most westerly province , bordering on the Tryol , Lichtenstein , Switzerland and Germany , Vorarlberg has been dubbed The Children 's Wonderland . |
| 5 | When anyone is running a factory they map out every tiny detail , saying when the smallest and most important things shall be done , and by whom . |
| 6 | LITTLE GULL Larus minutus The smallest and most tern-like gull of the region . |
| 7 | Smallest and least distinctive small European bird of prey , most easily told by its flight , habitat and general habits . |
| 8 | Over the years , though , it 's been made smaller and also shallower . |
| 9 | But as the generations ran their course , each one interbreeding with the local village dogs , the successive progeny became smaller and relentlessly unimpressive . |
| 10 | In response to criticism that SCS would be damaged by amalgamation with the smaller and less successful Edmonton Society , he argued that the SCS |
| 11 | The showrooms of the House of Oliver were smaller and less grand than those at the House of Mattli but the décor was newer and fresher , pale grey drapes , ultra modern black furniture and a great deal of gleaming stainless steel . |
| 12 | Our ‘ Shoestring ’ properties tend to be smaller and less grand than most of the larger resort hotels , and are an excellent choice if you 're looking for a more ‘ ethnic ’ type of holiday . |
| 13 | This is much smaller and less pretentious , but it has good geometrical window tracery above a ground floor arcade . |
| 14 | The theory behind Sir Bryan 's thinking is that the more efficient tied agents — such as the building societies — will offer the products to consumers at lower prices than smaller and less efficient tied agents . |
| 15 | Smaller and less variable than Desert Lark , from which readily distinguished by dark bar at tip of shorter tail . |
| 16 | Without adducing any real evidence ( he refers sometimes to the dialogue given to women characters in novels or plays by men ) , Jespersen tells us women speak more softly and politely than men , have smaller and less varied vocabularies , use diminutives like teeny weeny , construct their sentences ‘ loosely , and leave them unfinished , all the while jumping from topic to topic . |
| 17 | Walls of ancient stone with the hillside at their backs pressed in on his right ; smaller and less sheer but still impossible for him to climb . |
| 18 | Particular difficulties arise , perhaps , in establishing relationships with those who are smaller and less powerful and , possibly , to some extent dependent . |
| 19 | It is unencumbered in any way and therefore females are generally used , being smaller and less powerful than the males . |
| 20 | She is smaller and less intimidating than I had imagined her . |
| 21 | Within this area , several males — smaller and less gaudy than the females — establish much smaller territories . |
| 22 | The Australian Republican Movement , formed in 1991 , had campaigned against the Queen 's visit , which drew a much smaller and less enthusiastic public response than on previous occasions . |
| 23 | Students of Russia who hail from much smaller and less heterogeneous countries might pause to ask themselves whether democratic rule under any kind of government is possible in a country as awesome in its administrative complexity as this one . |
| 24 | The latter is smaller and less well-known than Exmoor or Dartmoor but is still very beautiful in a bleak windswept way , and , like the others , has its fair share of ancient sites and wildlife . |
| 25 | He seems to have largely ceased to make these large sketches by 1814 although smaller and less interesting ones exist until 1820 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 28 | Smaller and less costly items such as pens , beauty products and food are much more obvious candidates for a more general distribution . |
| 29 | More compact shires usually focused on a single centre of the order of two or three thousand inhabitants with wealth to match : Leicester had a good 2,000 or more , including a leading burgess worth £600 ; in a smaller , poorer county , Nottingham was both smaller and less prosperous . |
| 30 | It 's nice just to see it once , that er really that nine should be written smaller and then that two should be even smaller still , and that three should almost be unreadable because those things are smaller and smaller are n't they , as you go along there , these are getting tinier and tinier . |