Example sentences of "[be] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concerns have been the small number of inter-disciplinary and student-led projects put up for funding . |
| 2 | Until I arrived , he had always been the smallest person in the country ( he was about ten metres tall ) . |
| 3 | Barton saluted ( he had been the smallest soldier in the army ) , and took a cab back to the conference , closely followed by Amaranth . |
| 4 | Lino and block cutting tools , are the smallest style of carving chisels , V-tools and gouges , developed for cutting printing blocks . |
| 5 | The report also found that the overwhelming majority of lone parents are women , most of whom are divorced or separated ; single mothers are the smallest group of lone parents . |
| 6 | Objective requirements are the small list of conditions necessary to sustain biological life in an organism . |
| 7 | But we 're a small country now : we ca n't afford big mistakes . ’ |
| 8 | And BP Coal is paying £1,000 per borehole , which is a lot of money if you 're a small farmer who is dependent upon eel fishing for economic survival . |
| 9 | I thought I had that in my introductory letter , the one that says we 're a small company making recordings , we 're currently collecting recordings of erm sort of English as used in everyday situations and we would like to record on your premises if we may . |
| 10 | They cost £2.50 a quarter , but are so rich they 're a small treat you can spread out . |
| 11 | Well , it was like waiting for Christmas when you 're a small child : every day seems to last about six months . |
| 12 | Yeah , we can always get hold of them it 's just that we do n't carry them , we 're a small branch you see |
| 13 | No I do n't mean you 're a small size . |
| 14 | and I got a greater kinship because they 're a small group . |
| 15 | The threateningly titled ‘ Live Vol 1 ’ is easier to live without unless you 're a small convert already . |
| 16 | This has been no small task , Mr Chairman , as a mass of conflicting evidence from a variety of sources has had to be sifted . |
| 17 | It 's been no small thing to be simple . |
| 18 | And the fact that I am a small blonde is probably a bonus on this occasion . |
| 19 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 20 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 21 | These civil service pension arrangements were in due course copied , with modifications , by other public and private sector employers , though up to World War I it appears to have been a small minority of mainly the more prestigious employers who developed such formal occupational pension provision . |
| 22 | There are occasional references to fullers during the 13th and 14th centuries but theirs must have been a small scale operation compared to that encountered further downstream around Cirencester . |
| 23 | It is a large church for what has always been a small village — perhaps the work of some medieval lord of the manor intent on impressing the neighbouring gentry . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fortunately , it had been a small iceberg , as icebergs go . |
| 26 | The burial had been a small affair . |
| 27 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 28 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 29 | The number of bishops attending , at least until Vatican I , has been a small proportion of the total , and membership has not always been restricted to bishops , or even to clergy . |
| 30 | 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 . |