Example sentences of "have be a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that there has been a small electoral earthquake in Europe , but not many people have been hurt , and those that were thoroughly deserved it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There has been a small input from RTE . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 8 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that the Bredcroft site might have been a small sub-Roman settlement in the period between the decline of Great Casterton and the growth of Stamford . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 13 | Pleading poverty , he sought charity from local shopkeepers , and a butcher gave him an enormous turkey , which might actually have been a small emu . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 21 | What had been a small dark circle was a larger dark circle , with just a suspicion of smoke or steam around its edges . |
| 22 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 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 | Fortunately , it had been a small iceberg , as icebergs go . |
| 25 | The burial had been a small affair . |
| 26 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 27 | Britain 's initial strategy had been a smaller version of the comprehensive US and USSR space programmes . |
| 28 | I did n't have a protective big brother : all I had was a small sister . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 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 . |