Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 2 | Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity . |
| 3 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 4 | And Jung 's phrase ‘ something in us ’ implies that the wish constitutes only a small element in the psyche — one that is not difficult for a sensible , mature person to reject , once she/he has recognised how unrealistic it is . |
| 5 | We have discussed how the requirement for external confidentiality will limit the approach to potential purchasers and the consequential sale strategy which will involve contacting only a small number of potential purchasers , most of which are likely to be foreign companies . |
| 6 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |
| 7 | Diana had gathered together a small staff who were learning the ropes as fast as she was . |
| 8 | I know that I shall make only a small start before Christmas , so perhaps I can take the opportunity afforded by this Newsletter to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a good New Year . |
| 9 | Paid-in capital by member countries amounts to about 10 per cent of subscribed capital and represents only a small part of the total funds obtained by the EIB . |
| 10 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 11 | This represents only a small proportion of the structure . |
| 12 | They are bogging down ; and even if some formula is reached which both sides can sign , Joshua represents only a small minority of Africans . |
| 13 | The new ground that had to be broken in terms of the aerodynamics , structure , passenger handling facilities and runway bearing strength of these weighty monsters represents only a small fraction of the problems that beset the regulating authorities not only in the USA , where most of them are built , but throughout the world in all the places where they operate . |
| 14 | But this sum — under 4% of the Block — represents only a small fraction of spending from the Block on education in Scotland . |
| 15 | All mountain rescue medical equipment is paid for by government funding , but this represents only a small percentage of our total costs . |
| 16 | It represents only a small percentage of total production . |
| 17 | Even excluding these the following represents only a small sample . |
| 18 | But Henry II took into his own hands the county of Cornwall and all the Earl 's estates in England , Wales and Normandy and kept them to provide for his youngest son John , allowing only a small portion to go to Reginald 's daughters . |
| 19 | Using a stricter definition of a case of depression produced only a small difference in depression prevalence between these two age groups ( 4.5 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively ) . |
| 20 | Using only a small sample of children , we ( Denvir and Brown , 1986 ) developed an oral and practical diagnostic assessment to assess ‘ low attaining ’ 7–9 year olds ' understanding of number . |
| 21 | The private sector service industries make only a small contribution while the public services make none . |
| 22 | Organizations can absorb only a small number of people with these work goals . |
| 23 | Because of this difference in numbers we had to exclude altogether a small area of Newham from our study , in order to achieve a sample size manageable for our purposes . |
| 24 | The detailed changes to the boundary layer structure during this development are complicated , although they occupy only a small fraction of the total distance over which transition occurs . |
| 25 | Under Edward VI the war cost a further £1,387,000 , to which parliamentary taxes contributed only a small fraction . |
| 26 | Currently some 28,000 co-operative farms and 2,600,000 ejidatarios accounted for half of all arable land but contributed only a small percentage of gross national income , and much of the country 's food was imported . |
| 27 | It accepts only a small number of students onto its course ( nine last year ) which was established in 1985 as a joint venture with the Getty Conservation Institute . |
| 28 | At later stages a few problems did develop , but they involved only a small minority of the cases . |
| 29 | The NACAB report involved only a small number of students who approached only one of about 60 bureaux . |
| 30 | The herring gull has only a small chance of grabbing a nestling in the face of such opposition , and no chance whatever of sneaking up on an unguarded chick unnoticed by adults . |