Example sentences of "[verb] be a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Maclean replied : ‘ The fact that we do have a full investigation of what has been a small emission does show how rigorous the inspectorate systems are in this country . ’ |
| 5 | There has been a small input from RTE . |
| 6 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 7 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 8 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 9 | Considered objectively , they were an instrument of torture ; but the discomfort they caused was a small price to pay for the knowledge that Kate had persuaded him to buy them . |
| 10 | Lofoten is a small group of islands sticking out off Arctic Norway rather like the Outer Hebrides do off Scotland . |
| 11 | ‘ Racing 's a small world . ’ |
| 12 | What was needed was a small bomb capable of blowing a hole through the wing of an aircraft and igniting the fuel in the tanks inside . |
| 13 | What I now faced was a small town with a strongly macho bias and an inbuilt resistance to change . |
| 14 | When I used to ask him where he was going he would tell me ‘ To Phucke ’ , which he claimed was a small town to the north of Inverness . |
| 15 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Triton , the largest satellite of Neptune , goes round the planet in the opposite direction to Neptune 's other moons , and may originally have been a small planet in its own right which was captured by Neptune 's gravity . |
| 19 | Pleading poverty , he sought charity from local shopkeepers , and a butcher gave him an enormous turkey , which might actually have been a small emu . |
| 20 | George 's grandfather must have been a smaller man than George , for the brown livery was stretched across the shoulders and the boy 's long wrists showed below the sleeve . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But what they will have is a small pension that will be preventing them getting State Benefits and they will be in the poverty trap . |
| 23 | And the words we use are a small part of the process . |
| 24 | This would have triggered their detectors dramatically , yet all they saw was a small increase in the background level of radiation . |
| 25 | All it contained was a small jar of capers . |
| 26 | ‘ The snow 's very loose on the Wildhorn at this time of year and all it took was a small charge to start the ball rolling , if you 'll excuse the pun . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Buxtehude is a small commuter town in the Elbe floodplain near Hamburg . |
| 29 | In the part in which she was standing was a small table and two chairs and an iron contraption that looked as if it might be used for some form of heating . |
| 30 | Edmund Gornall helped to found and which we have had an appeal to support is a small pharmacy in Andahuaylas which provides free medicine to those who have no money to pay . |