Example sentences of "have be a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 2 | There are occasional references to fullers during the 13th and 14th centuries but theirs must have been a small scale operation compared to that encountered further downstream around Cirencester . |
| 3 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 4 | Triton , the largest satellite of Neptune , goes round the planet in the opposite direction to Neptune 's other moons , and may originally have been a small planet in its own right which was captured by Neptune 's gravity . |
| 5 | Pleading poverty , he sought charity from local shopkeepers , and a butcher gave him an enormous turkey , which might actually have been a small emu . |
| 6 | George 's grandfather must have been a smaller man than George , for the brown livery was stretched across the shoulders and the boy 's long wrists showed below the sleeve . |
| 7 | But what they will have is a small pension that will be preventing them getting State Benefits and they will be in the poverty trap . |