Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [verb] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 2 | Certainly verticality can be used to transform a small and uninteresting garden . |
| 3 | The scale of the problems will be different , but a chap who can run ICI , if he can be bothered to help a small business , will do it very well from his experience . |
| 4 | Each member of a committee assigned a specific area of work should be encouraged to recruit a small Working Group from outside the committee to help them . |
| 5 | The major fear now for the prison 's governor is that a warder could be forced to smuggle a small gun into the prison to carry out an attack against republican remand prisoners in revenge for the deaths of two loyalist prisoners . |
| 6 | Since you had owned the farm , you would be allowed to keep a small plot , perhaps a quarter of an acre , to grow whatever you wished . |