Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adv] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In economic studies , similar weight is given to the state as guide or guardian within a liberal democratic Japan where the relatively small size of the public sector is seen as an important indicator of the limits to state economic control . |
| 2 | A normal-sized portion should be eaten , except in children who have asthma or urticaria , where a very small amount should be tried first , in case there is a severe reaction . |
| 3 | ( d ) All the cost information for a project is retained in one or a very small number of files . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the margin scheme applies only to goods sold by taxable dealers who have acquired them from a private individual or a very small dealer or a body exempt from VAT . |
| 5 | One snack should constitute , at most , half a bar of chocolate , or two biscuits or a very small cake ( or anything sweet of around 100–150 calories ) . |
| 6 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 7 | Dr before we pass to other business , I would like to thank you very much indeed for all the work that the very small size panel on doctrine has carried out for the good of the assembly and the work of the church . |
| 8 | Overall , however , I think that the comparatively small increase in premiums demonstrates a pragmatic response , given the huge losses incurred over past years . |
| 9 | The long-term significance of CCT may be greater , therefore , than the relatively small proportion of contracts won by private enterprise would suggest , and certainly more important than the limited financial savings at first achieved . |
| 10 | Although a comparatively small group , the Salvation Army or Galavima Hamudava in Sinhalese and Ratchaniya Senai in Tamil , had an influence far beyond their numbers because of their social work . |
| 11 | The major reason for this is that a rather small proportion of the population makes a will-only about 20 per cent on the most authoritative figures available ( Todd and Jones , 1972 ; Manners and Rauta , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Nonetheless it said that a relatively small licence ( for the code to be implemented for a single architecture , for example ) will still come to a six-figure dollar sum . |
| 13 | It appears that a relatively small proportion of cattle stolen in the Southern Band ended up as beef , for there were ready markets for agricultural and draught purposes , especially in the Western Province . |
| 14 | It is evident that a relatively small proportion of schools had either chosen or felt able to implement the ISS recommended curriculum and that most schools were not following a broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils . |
| 15 | It is seen that a very small change in logical rigour at this point in its range , perhaps a slight deficiency of knowledge in a subject , can have a disproportionate effect on the outcome . |
| 16 | On the first count , it is significant that a very small proportion of RB programmes is concerned with developing work with the unemployed ; moreover , much of this work is concerned not with the working-class unemployed ( who , of course , form the large bulk of unemployed people in Britain ) , but with the unemployed middle-class or professional people . |
| 17 | Both Bruch and Minuchin show that a very small minority of anorexics commit suicide , but at the same time Bruch resists , as I do , the description of anorexia nervosa as ‘ suicide in refracted doses ’ . |
| 18 | I mean , I think a lot of national organisations that are giving , I trust that are giving money to people actually do want to know that sort of detail about where the money is going , because , if I go through this , I mean , I would have to say that I should imagine that a very small percentage of the money that has been collected on these flag days will actually get back into Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | Indeed , he believes that a very small section of the population , which he calls the business class , now forms a tightly integrated group which dominates British business . |
| 20 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 21 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 22 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 23 | Because of this and the consequently small aisle windows which provide the limited nave lighting , the interior is darker than is usual in churches of the kind . |
| 24 | As a result of recent reorganisation of the YTS scheme , there was a large increase among 16- and 17-year-olds , and the very small percentage of 18-year-olds on YOPS courses continued on YTS courses . |
| 25 | However , given government commitments on green belts ( which increased from 1,475,000 hectares in the old development plans to 1,800,000 hectares in 1983 structure plans ) , and the very small amount of land needed ( estimated at one per cent of the total land area of England ) , no national problem exists . |
| 26 | Because of the ambiguity in interpreting data of this type and the relatively small amount of it encountered the analysis will concentrate solely on descriptions which were scored as correct recalls . |
| 27 | In a while we 'll be taking a look around the show , and finding out about a traditional breed of sheep and a very small breed of cattle . |
| 28 | the average age of lone parents in accommodation for the homeless is in the mid-to-late twenties and a very small percentage are unmarried teenage girls . |
| 29 | He stressed the deformed nature of Latin American capitalism , with its bourgeoisie of foreigners , the enduring alliance between imperialist bourgeoisie and native landowners , a weak , impoverished petite bourgeoisie threatened by foreign competition , and a very small proletariat . |
| 30 | We are , after all , a large chemical company , and a very small oil company . |