Sentences with phrase «in a smaller room rather»

Start her off in a smaller room rather than giving her the run of the house to get her used to new surroundings and people.

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I was thinking that with this kind of set up, rather than asking the small child to adjust to both sleeping in a different room & bed, and to sleeping alone, we'd only be asking the child to adjust to sleeping alone in an already familiar environment.

The idea being that rather than take a cut in housing benefit for having a spare room, people would move out of their properties and into smaller accommodation, thereby freeing it up for larger families.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

Rather than teaching all the students the same subjects, in the same way, at the same pace — like in today's schools — the teacher rotated around the room and worked individually with small groups of students.

If you've done the work of preparing a good WebQuest ahead of time (or selecting one made by someone else), you have a more gratifying day, by working with individuals and small groups as a coach rather than having to keep all those eyes on you as the only source of data in the room.

Granted the trunk is rather small and there probably isn't much leg room in the back seat, but I rarely have a rear seat passenger, so that is fine.

Would you rather spend the day in a small concrete room with twenty other people or in the fresh air with a few of your best buddies?

Rather than just a small handful of curious veterinarians in the audience, the room was more jam packed than any other lecture room at the meeting, and continues to be as popular today as it was then.

With 60 rooms, La Siesta is one of the larger hotels in Old Quarter, but with a focus on small parties rather than tour groups, and highly professional and helpful staff, it still has a cosy and personal feel to it.

During that time I traveled on a rather tight backpacker's budget, staying in hostels, private rooms at small guest houses and in tents.

Sometimes it is small things, like how lighting a candelabra doesn't illuminate the room with flames but rather a child's drawing of flames upon the wall, or how touching a piano sends everything in the room floating up into the air.

I guess that's one of the things that makes them different from photographs, in that a photograph might be a record, a snap, one moment — a painting I think is about creating a small world around that photo... I really like that idea of something that you can enter like a box or an exhibition space, and enter these little rooms which for me are memories, but it's not about nostalgia — it's more about setting up something that's still living — so it's almost they're all in the present, rather than in the past.»

If your regional commercial practice in property, regulatory or litigation is similar to a City firm, but with national clients who generate smaller numbers, rather than international clients, then there is also room for you.

[email protected] — nor am I; I have a rather delightful Victorian former vicarage in a village in the Yorkshire wolds with 5 beds, 4 reception rooms, a small orchard and around an acre of gardens... all within a 30 minute drive to the office which has free parking... but it came in at at a shade under # 400k an I am willing to bet both my nuts I couldn't get that in London... So 9 - 6 and I am home to enjoy the fruits (in all senses) of my labour.

Team Player: I am sure you wouldn't tell a potential employer that you abhor interpersonal communication and would rather be locked in a small room to do your own work.

I didn't want to the «big fish» in the small pond; I'd rather be a little fish and still have room to grow and achieve.

I am really a small house lover, in my heart, so I feel safest and happiest with places that nestle me in rather than swallowing me up in a huge room.

(We ditched our old coffee table because it looked too small sitting floating in all that floor space, and we figured Sweet P would rather have room to roll around there anyway.)

Two trees is a bit of a competition for me, I found out that I rather have one good tree in one room and smaller decorations in the other rooms of the house.

Go group larger pieces together to make an even more bold punch in a room rather than several smaller pieces spread throughout the room.

Rather than investing in a built - in for this room, I've been on the hunt for a cabinet that would be long and tall enough to not only make a statement on the wall below the small windows, but something that wasn't too deep.

Seven nights from now, a gaggle of school mums and (hopefully) dads (bloody Bledisloe Cup) will be dancing like loons to»80s music in my rather small lounge room.

«In small rooms, I think it's better to scale up rather than down,» he says.

Small living rooms can be overwhelmed by sofas, so choose a space efficient corner design rather than trying to squeeze in a cpouple of two - seaters for a layout that's easier to walk around.