Example sentences of "set [adv] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the last few years , the RMCs have also been used extensively by outside clients , most notably by the MSC 's Training Services Division which has commissioned programmes for unemployed managers , especially those intending to set up small businesses . |
| 2 | In Lesotho , a project to set up small plantations for fuelwood failed to consult local villagers , and the plantations are now underused and uneconomic . |
| 3 | Some miners used these payments to try and set up small businesses or farms . |
| 4 | Rich Athenians set up small factories in which the chief , but not the sole , source of labour was slaves . |
| 5 | In the Old City men set up small roadside stalls around big red earthenware pots containing jal jeera , a dark , spicy , green liquid which burns the mouth but cools the body : a more primitive yet more effective coolant than anything on offer in the new town . |
| 6 | Most restaurants and cafes have set aside small no-smoking areas but wo n't be enforcing the rule . |
| 7 | But in such a variation on the theme , the influence of carbon dioxide has to be set very small , only one tenth of the strength most climate modellers currently accept , otherwise it would have overwhelmed the volcanic influence and caused the Earth to continue warming through the 1940s , 1950s and 1960s . |
| 8 | On the other hand it is the larger farms who can more easily ‘ afford ’ conservation , especially on small scale , both in terms of setting aside small land areas for less intensive agricultural management and in economic terms . |
| 9 | Even the CYL became involved with the tide , setting up small businesses to help raise money ( ZGQN 16. 7. 1988 : 15 ) . |
| 10 | Other specific provision includes an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) initiative which seeks to help unwaged individuals from ethnic minorities to look at the skills involved in setting up small businesses or entering self-employment . |
| 11 | Some firms in the US and France have tackled the problems of isolation by setting up small centres which are a meeting point for homeworkers as well as a focus for organization . |
| 12 | True to a tradition dating back to World War II underwater demolition and beach reconnaissance teams , they had not only a high standard of swimming and small boat skills , but also patrolled ashore , and set up small but deadly ambushes . |