Example sentences of "be so small [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics of Siporax claim that the material must clog as the pores are so small but without the adhesion problem , Peter Oakes of A1 says that Siporax 's bacteria will break-down anything organic . |
| 2 | But the quantities of lead and nitrates which the EC is making a fuss about are so small that they represent a negligible — perhaps even a non-existent — hazard to health . |
| 3 | You will think of many examples , but the differences are so small that context is crucial . |
| 4 | Outside London , cities are so small that only Birmingham , Bristol , Exeter , Newcastle , York and Norwich have more than ten thousand residents . |
| 5 | They are so small that they can only be seen with a microscope . |
| 6 | These are so small that millions can fit on the tip of a pencil . |
| 7 | Snotlings are so small that they are modelled in multiples on a single large base . |
| 8 | The males of Tidarren are so small that they can not even carry their full complement of mating implements and consequently amputate one of their two pedipalps . |
| 9 | Some birds are so small that twigs are too coarse a material for them to use as the main fabric of their nest . |
| 10 | The shops are so small that the person in the shop sees every corner , though there are no cameras . |
| 11 | These baby universes are so small that one would not notice them joining on or branching off . |
| 12 | Moreover , the axial inclination and orbital eccentricity of Venus are so small that seasonal variations are negligible . |
| 13 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 14 | The reason why a cut in members ' allowances was not in our budget is I think we did n't consider it and we did n't consider it because the figures involved are so small that it was n't a matter which was , as I say , worthy of financial comment , although I accept it has a political dimension . |
| 15 | The pores between silt particles are so small and retentive of water that tightly packed silt can not be emptied by drainage . |
| 16 | Because the eggs are so small and so widespread it is easy for them to be swallowed . |
| 17 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 18 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 19 | What 's more , this would be so small that it would behave much like a neutralised proton , or ‘ neutron ’ . |
| 20 | If a family held a small amount of land and was in a village with a large number of households , its strips could be so small and scattered that too much time was spent in travelling between strips . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day . |
| 22 | The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education . |
| 23 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 24 | A survival of Second Empire technology could be so small as to be incapable of spreading its influence , or the science could have survived but not the necessary manufacturing techniques for its propagation . |
| 25 | The nett magnetic effect from contra-rotating magnetic fields can be so small as to get buried in noise . |
| 26 | Please Captain Goldsborough — I 'm so small and poor and cold . |
| 27 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 28 | And a lot of the appeal of Arthur and 10 I think was me being so small and cocky . |
| 29 | One of the moments which remained most strongly in her memory took place in the town 's most learned book shop , a charming building that dated , almost alone in the town , from a pre-industrial epoch ; it was tall , and narrow , and its windows Were so small that it could display only ten books at a time , and those ten were changed but once a month . |
| 30 | All the houses were so small that er th nearly everybody 'd take their chairs out in the evening time in the in the summer . |