Example sentences of "be a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we 're a small country now : we ca n't afford big mistakes . ’ |
| 2 | And BP Coal is paying £1,000 per borehole , which is a lot of money if you 're a small farmer who is dependent upon eel fishing for economic survival . |
| 3 | I thought I had that in my introductory letter , the one that says we 're a small company making recordings , we 're currently collecting recordings of erm sort of English as used in everyday situations and we would like to record on your premises if we may . |
| 4 | They cost £2.50 a quarter , but are so rich they 're a small treat you can spread out . |
| 5 | Well , it was like waiting for Christmas when you 're a small child : every day seems to last about six months . |
| 6 | Yeah , we can always get hold of them it 's just that we do n't carry them , we 're a small branch you see |
| 7 | No I do n't mean you 're a small size . |
| 8 | and I got a greater kinship because they 're a small group . |
| 9 | The threateningly titled ‘ Live Vol 1 ’ is easier to live without unless you 're a small convert already . |
| 10 | And the fact that I am a small blonde is probably a bonus on this occasion . |
| 11 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These civil service pension arrangements were in due course copied , with modifications , by other public and private sector employers , though up to World War I it appears to have been a small minority of mainly the more prestigious employers who developed such formal occupational pension provision . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is a large church for what has always been a small village — perhaps the work of some medieval lord of the manor intent on impressing the neighbouring gentry . |
| 16 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 17 | Fortunately , it had been a small iceberg , as icebergs go . |
| 18 | The burial had been a small affair . |
| 19 | I never thought it would work like this : having been a small child in the 50s when women dressed more or less identically and according to their age and class ( gymslip , good suit , housecoat , then cardigan and pinny ) , I used to think that it was beautifully liberating in the 60s and 70s when convention began to permit a woman of any age to dress in virtually any style , from hooker to schoolmarm . |
| 20 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 21 | The number of bishops attending , at least until Vatican I , has been a small proportion of the total , and membership has not always been restricted to bishops , or even to clergy . |
| 22 | There have been a small number of fairly successful conservation projects , notably Chang Mei , and at Ma Sae ( UNEP 1979 : 83 ) , but they do not materially detract from the view that Thai conservation policy is not succeeding in reversing national trends of rapid forest clearance and increasing erosion hazards . |
| 23 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 24 | Mr Maclean replied : ‘ The fact that we do have a full investigation of what has been a small emission does show how rigorous the inspectorate systems are in this country . ’ |
| 25 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 28 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 29 | Her window looked out of the back of the house , onto what had once been a small garden . |
| 30 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |