Example sentences of "be [adv] a little " in BNC.

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1 Others which are perhaps a little bit of er a change from what we 've been used to doing ,
2 This is usually after the winter when fish are naturally a little run down , but in most cases it is quickly cleared up with a standard fungus cure preparation .
3 You are only a little player in a game in which there are big players .
4 the bypass that end of town would have been perhaps a little bit clearer .
5 I am just a little girl , I have n't even started my periods yet and little girls can tantrum louder and then can sulk deeper than anything else in the universe .
6 ‘ I am just a little ship , ’ Aunt Emily said , ‘ drifting farther and farther out to sea . ’
7 Could it be that you are just a little bit jealous of The Great White North — a society , after all , rather less divisive and certainly more prosperous than decaying , decadent Britain ?
8 they used to be cheap , there was a lot of one pound seventy , they 're only a little slab , drive me boring doing the little ones , so you might as well get two of the big ones once you 've done
9 ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets .
10 ‘ You 're just a little tart ! ’ she spat out viciously .
11 You 're just a little bit more awkward than the other two .
12 Erm no you 're just a little bit out there actually , it 's fifty six pounds and ten pence .
13 I think they 're probably a little bit more expensive but he is much cheaper than in
14 Well like we , so we can try and e , with regards to the teams we 're probably a little bit more high profile than a lot of the other teams .
15 And they may not be able to cope with that , which is why I am always a little bit anxious if marriages break up very quickly , because it might indicate that what they 're really doing is just going into that second phase .
16 The CAN' T-get-away-with-anything ( darn it ! ) calorie counter : If you belong to this category you are probably a little person .
17 ‘ She 's going to Horsfall Woods and it will be only a little out of her way . ’
18 So it 'd be perhaps a little bit bigger than this big one cos the small one would n't make a lot of difference so perhaps it would be that , that big , or something .
19 Yet we can not help but feel that perhaps the establishment should be just a little bit less obdurate when confronted by new ideas .
20 If you can be just a little bit clued-up and not be Rastafarian with dreadlocks , you can not fail .
21 Certainly that one is totally overpowered by the background and these ones are tending to be just a little bit .
22 He wo n't be on the stage all the time , he said , his will be just a little spot .
23 It felt good to be just a little bit crazy for once in her life .
24 I 'm just a little tense about the party , and it 's been so hot ! ’
25 I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the
26 I 'm just a little bit concerned that if we do delay it while discussions are going on about the unitary authorities and such like , we 'll put restrictions on Mr running it as a commercial enterprise , and I think we have got to make sure that any long term deferral on this , we do n't inhibit him rationalising selling off the odd cottage and this sort of thing , and the farmhouse as we go along , and amalgamating ones because I think it 's , he 's got to be able to run it as a commercial proposition during the course of deliberations .
27 I 'm still a little bit in the dark .
28 I I 'm still a little bit puzzled about the thirteen hectares , is that footloose depending on where the settlement is placed if it 's placed within Greater York ?
29 ‘ I intended to find out about your involvement with that man , and now I have , although I must admit I 'm still a little bit hazy as to the details .
30 I 'm always a little bit worried about them because it seems to me that they almost define the syllabus in terms of what you can ask four reasonable questions in terms of alternatives about .
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