Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't have a protective big brother : all I had was a small sister . |
| 2 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 3 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 4 | For this trick all you need is a small coin such as a fifty-pence piece or a half dollar . |
| 5 | All we got was a small discount because we bought such a huge quantity . |
| 6 | And the words we use are a small part of the process . |
| 7 | so what we need is a small unit in there and , and , I mean , it 's only two or three hundred quid er , and a few erm |
| 8 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 9 | There has been a small input from RTE . |
| 10 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 11 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 12 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 13 | There have been a small number of fairly successful conservation projects , notably Chang Mei , and at Ma Sae ( UNEP 1979 : 83 ) , but they do not materially detract from the view that Thai conservation policy is not succeeding in reversing national trends of rapid forest clearance and increasing erosion hazards . |
| 14 | Considered objectively , they were an instrument of torture ; but the discomfort they caused was a small price to pay for the knowledge that Kate had persuaded him to buy them . |
| 15 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 16 | This would have triggered their detectors dramatically , yet all they saw was a small increase in the background level of radiation . |
| 17 | The buyers in this particular market were very clear that what they wanted was a small loan , for a fixed amount , over a short period , paid weekly to a collector . |
| 18 | Because where he goes is a smaller school where they go and erm I think something like that is nice for them to actually |
| 19 | When I used to ask him where he was going he would tell me ‘ To Phucke ’ , which he claimed was a small town to the north of Inverness . |
| 20 | All it contained was a small jar of capers . |
| 21 | ‘ The snow 's very loose on the Wildhorn at this time of year and all it took was a small charge to start the ball rolling , if you 'll excuse the pun . |
| 22 | Fortunately , it had been a small iceberg , as icebergs go . |
| 23 | Mr Maclean replied : ‘ The fact that we do have a full investigation of what has been a small emission does show how rigorous the inspectorate systems are in this country . ’ |