Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of British governments had , for a century , been to possess a small , highly professional army of volunteers , with a second-line volunteer citizen army intended for home defence . |
| 2 | The best it could do would be to permit a small degree of enclave development , which only reproduced First World-Third World exploitation within the Third World . |
| 3 | The quickest way to improve rural wages would be to locate a small engineering factory in every village — a utopian thought , no doubt . |
| 4 | The aims of the project are to develop a small quarterly model of the United Kingdom economy and to use this model to investigate the way in which dynamic specification — the way in which lags in economic behaviour are allowed for — is related to forecasting and simulation properties . |
| 5 | The Government could play a part in advocating the recycling of plastics if it were to levy a small charge on each recyclable bottle . |
| 6 | One of his ideas had been to take a small naval party with him who would attempt to scuttle a ship in the harbour mouth . |
| 7 | A development is to include a small piece of cloth in an adapted end loop of a brush . |
| 8 | It may be that the only way for a new supplier to break through this impasse is to secure a small order which , in effect , permits the demonstration of his company 's capability to provide consistently high-quality products promptly . |
| 9 | Another approach is to fit a small length of old cycle inner tube over the end of each open pipe . |
| 10 | The right action at this stage is to play a small Club from both hands on the King of Clubs . |
| 11 | A cheap alternative to a radio microphone that produces acceptable recordings of one speaker is to use a small tape recorder attached to a tie-clip microphone . |
| 12 | Probably the most important rule is to use a small faeces sample . |
| 13 | Another way of approaching the attack on the ball is to put a small obstacle in the way of the downswing . |
| 14 | A sensible way for her to prepare for such an eventuality is to keep a small case already packed and labelled with her name and address in her wardrobe or in a corner of her bedroom where it can be got at easily ( see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 15 | Another plan is to have a small set of advisory groups that would act as ‘ think tanks ’ in certain areas . |
| 16 | The way in which community care projects get off the ground quickly is to have a small project team of three or four people with the task of steering it through from start to finish , working under the guidance of a strong chairman . |
| 17 | In fact , this is to elevate a small group of officials or ‘ caucus ’ , as Ostrogorski called them , into a prominence they do not deserve . |
| 18 | His technique is to microinject a small amount of bicuculline methiodine into the engram area . |
| 19 | The simplest is to link a small hole in the wall , similar to the ones in a Pitot tube , to a manometer . |
| 20 | The technique employed is to attach a small trout , or even herring , to a bare hook . |
| 21 | On other occasions the product to be launched is considered to be over the limit of what can be given away and one creative idea which has now been taken up by quite a number of manufacturers is to raffle a small number of the items or to organise an amusing competition which journalists attending the launch are invited to enter . |
| 22 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
| 23 | Oddly enough , in the next murder case I found myself investigating , Geoffrey was to play a small , terminal part , the effects of which were slightly to take the gilt from my findings . |
| 24 | The policy of the French was to form a small native élite , known as évolués , who learned their language and culture . |
| 25 | It was to the credit of Philip IV that he laid the foundations for a dockyard at Rouen , while only a few years later in England , Edward II , whose father had built some galleys , was to possess a small squadron of ‘ royal ’ ships . |
| 26 | It was to have a small park , with a stand where a German band could play , a church and dissenting chapels , a hospital and dispensary , a school , an evening institute and library , a gasworks , waterworks , and a sewage outfall works . |