Example sentences of "[conj] [art] very small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( d ) All the cost information for a project is retained in one or a very small number of files . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We are , after all , a large chemical company , and a very small oil company . |
| 21 | Only microscopic number of reproductions hand on the walls of ordinary peoples ' houses , and in terms of the national population those people who really ‘ like ’ them — as opposed to professing admiration for them — must be very much of a minority , so Bacon 's millions must have come from institutions and a very small body of very rich patrons . |
| 22 | I was told that they receive three meals a day and a very small amount of payment , although this did not appear to be directly related to the amount of work they did . |
| 23 | Almost all coroners are either solicitors ( a few are barristers ) or doctors and a very small number have both legal and medical training and qualifications . |
| 24 | The minimum suggested fall is 1:40 , however , if a very small fall such as this is used it is important to take great care to seal all side and end laps with Rockwell sealing strip using two strips per joint . |
| 25 | The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment . |
| 26 | On the other hand , those might turn out to be right who think that man is responsible for but a very small part of the destruction of fish that is constantly going on ; and in that case a boat starting with equally good appliances and an equally efficient crew would be likely to get nearly as good a haul after the increase in the total volume of the fishing trade as before . |
| 27 | The collection continues to expand , mostly by donation but a very small purchase grant enables Mr Rosoman to pick up the occasional piece at auction : he recently purchased some papier mache moulds at the Christie 's Crowther sale . |
| 28 | It is always done in a running stream … the rivers contain in ordinary weather but a very small stream of water , trickling through an immense mass of rocks of all sizes . |
| 29 | But a very small Reform , or none at all , would — or , at least , might — have involved the aristocrats in far larger losses and concessions than any which they incurred through the Reform Act . |
| 30 | Oil is always particularly alarming since a very small quantity will quickly cover a large area of water with an unmistakable iridescence . |