Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved .
2 Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced .
3 But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold .
4 In the 1960s , for example , it was often argued that the prospects of developing a car industry in Latin America were poor because the small size of the local market meant that small local plants could never compete on cost with imported cars .
5 IF it 's more than a small amount that you 're drinking and also a regular thing then booze may not be quite as harmless as you think .
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