Example sentences of "[be] that a small [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Other bores can also be used but the obvious point must be that a small charge in the right place is a lot better than a heavier charge badly directed .
2 The reason they were picked ( aside from those who are here by right of birth ) is that a small portion of their total brain power was visibly alight at the right time and in the right place .
3 Thus the new reality is that a small group of people substitute themselves for the class as a whole and decide what is best for all .
4 The problem with recruitment is that a small amount of initial effort produces a great deal of work , and this work proceeds in waves which produce severe fluctuations in activity for the personnel staff involved .
5 The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds .
6 What it means , eventually , is that a smaller base of committed players will have to shoulder the burdens and , in a country that remains strictly amateur , a coterie of liberal employers will be required to grace the scene .
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