Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anxiety created by the boredom of being locked all night and most of the day in a stable or very small yard with little to look at , forces the horse to create some activity for itself which will help relieve the boredom . |
| 2 | As a result of these cases it is clear that relatively small differences in the drafting of a rent review clause may have great practical consequences . |
| 3 | There were two separate issues for the research : ( i ) which pupils would be included in the testing ; and , ( ii ) if a wide range of tests was to be developed , each of them would be taken by different and fairly small samples from among the target pupils , how could the comparability of the samples be checked ? |
| 4 | Data sent by residential and very small businesses will normally be sent on the usual voice line . |
| 5 | Dr Dan Wright , research officer , says : ‘ Our findings contrast very much with a similar but much smaller study in the US which showed that almost 100 per cent of the study remembered exactly what they were doing when Kennedy was killed . ’ |
| 6 | It seems likely that as small children they stayed in the relative security of England while Henry spent most of his time abroad , immersed in what was always to be the central concern of his life , governing his continental dominions . |
| 7 | The very name of this comely and quite small village which is situated to the east of Kingston upon Hull attracts attention . |
| 8 | Again the Monkey-boy together with a rather fragile-looking , unusually pretty and even smaller friend , ‘ 'Artley ’ , proudly led away the horse . |
| 9 | erm but it 's the program , yes , it 's the application of complex programs to thee very sophisticated but very small computers , I think , which is of interest in this particular case . |
| 10 | The pattern , which continued into the last quarter of 1991 , was one of large periodic issues by tender or by auction and frequent and usually small issues of tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 11 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 12 | Trade union membership has fallen partly due to higher unemployment and partly through changes in economic structure with more self-employed and more small employers . |
| 13 | Analysed corpora are rare and only small examples of this genre are currently found . |
| 14 | In the autumn of 1986 , when Saxton and Bampfylde abandoned their previous employers , they had already prepared their future strategy : to work with only a selected and comparatively small number of clients in certain market sectors only , with an emphasis on finding the people needed to satisfy a client 's strategic needs rather than on the level of appointment . |
| 15 | Apart , Inkatha and the Afrikaner right-wing parties represent significant but relatively small groups . |