Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [art] small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in fact anticipated that the establishment of the Library Instruction Materials Bank ( LIMB ) in 1977 would remove some of the duplication in production , but there has been only a small measure of success here . |
| 2 | Tamar sat and talked quietly , telling her Uncle about her life and about Victoria , who had been only a small child when he had last seen her . |
| 3 | But there had been only a small decrease in mental hospital beds and little sign of a significant shift to different forms of care . |
| 4 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 5 | There have been only a small number of studies which have applied these techniques to bilingual data , for example : Auer 1981 , 1984a , 1984b ; Auer and Di Luzio 1983a , 1983b ; Tate 1984 ; Sebba and Wootton 1984 ; Milroy and Li Wei ( forthcoming ) . |
| 6 | ‘ As you may have noticed , Cornelius , I am only a small person . |
| 7 | One may quibble with some of Jakobson 's distinctions and classifications , but it must be stressed that these are only a small selection of the multitude of relationships that he identifies in the space of this short poem . |
| 8 | The subject of English stress has received a large amount of attention , and the references given here are only a small selection from an enormous number . |
| 9 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 10 | Within that constituency too , the Unionists are only a small minority . |
| 11 | The rich are not normally inhibited in the defence of their own interests by the knowledge that they are only a small minority of the population . |
| 12 | So again , although Girobank loans do add to the consumer 's potential credit armoury , they are only a small addition . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , as we know all too often , the players in the game of musical chairs are only a small part of the total group . |
| 14 | The allocations of SDRs by the IMF have been very limited , ( no new issues since 1981 ) and consequently SDRs are only a small part of countries ' reserves . |
| 15 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 16 | This means that the total household cash contributions to every form of charity , of which social services are only a small part , was not more than about 5,000 million , or one fifth of the cost of the NHS . |
| 17 | These injuries , severe and painful though they were , are only a small part of the story when compared to the effects of the severe closed head injury . |
| 18 | It 's important not to over exaggerate the significance of this , the Maestro and Montego are only a small part of Rover 's output . |
| 19 | We are only a small organisation and there are many conflicting demands on our time . |
| 20 | But while large companies are only a small percentage of total businesses , they dominate the economy , such that ‘ a large proportion of economic activity in present-day capitalist economies is concentrated in a relatively small number of absolutely large firms ’ . |
| 21 | The existence of these different anatomical plans , without intermediates , again raises the question of whether there are only a small number of possible body plans , represented by the existing phyla , or whether we are looking at the end results of a series of historical accidents . |
| 22 | Since there are only a small number , it is economic to make the accumulators faster than the store elements , so that operations are performed at greater speed while all operands are held in accumulators . |
| 23 | This is because there are only a small number of directly relevant empirical studies , and it is hoped that the results from studies of other futures contracts will shed light on the nature of these relationships for index futures . |
| 24 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
| 25 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 26 | I am not a small man , nor am I a weakling , yet the thin Sweetman seemed unconcerned as I jumped down into the cockpit . |
| 27 | I will argue later in Chapter 6 that powerless groups are not a small minority especially when we realize that the cherished pattern of lifetime employment applies to barely 30 per cent of labour , within which there are only a tiny percentage of women . |
| 28 | Listen house I says , you are not a small house , the cottage never was suitable . |
| 29 | We are not a small nation , but a great nation . |
| 30 | You can be one of the best players in Britain but over here you are just a small fish . ’ |