Example sentences of "[adj] than a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold . |
| 2 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |
| 3 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 4 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 5 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 6 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
| 7 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
| 8 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
| 9 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 10 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 11 | Broom-Parker had played no more than a small part in the plot to make sure Pendero was beaten , she was certain of that . |
| 12 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 13 | Scorning more than a small peppermint humbug , I went into the little church of St. Nicholas . |
| 14 | Even the most significant unions could recruit no more than a small fraction of the workers in their industry . |
| 15 | Nurse practitioners in most of the participating major departments managed no more than a small fraction of the patients each day . |
| 16 | But although we are entitled , in our theory of the origin of life , to spend a maximum ration of luck amounting , perhaps , to odds of 100 billion billion to one against , my hunch is that we are n't going to need more than a small fraction of that ration . |
| 17 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
| 18 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 19 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 20 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Both Friends of the Earth and former CFC manufacturers , ICI , have acknowledged that the scheme has failed to collect more than a small proportion of CFCs from old appliances . |
| 23 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 24 | But there are further grounds for doubting that — even given full disclosure — more than a small minority of this one in five will be able to make practical use of their alertness to APR and credit cost information . |
| 25 | The UBC was never more than a small minority of the parliamentary party , with a general attendance of about forty , and its influence was more a result of its being first in the field of opposition , than of its numbers or its members " economic power . |
| 26 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 27 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |
| 28 | One thing you must not do , however , is add more than a small amount of paint to control surfaces . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This will be the case where negotiations or discussions are extended to embrace more than a small group of people or where they are at such an advanced stage that the target is reasonably confident that an offer will be made for its shares ; where secrecy can not be maintained ; or if security is breached . |