Example sentences of "because [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the small Brigadier they call The Ciskei Kid is little more than a puppet on a string . |
| 2 | I sobbed again , not because it hurt , which it did , but because I was so helpless against what was happening , and because the small voice was saying blandly , " Well ? |
| 3 | The view of the Pleiades is much more breathtaking with my 7 × 50 binoculars than with the lowest power I can use on my large reflector , because the small field of view with the telescope means that only a small part of the cluster can be seen at any one time . |
| 4 | Pellet formation takes place in the stomach , and it comes about because the small size of the pyloric opening connecting the stomach to the rest of the digestive tract and its high placement prevent the passage of larger particles into the intestines ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) . |
| 5 | In the 1960s , for example , it was often argued that the prospects of developing a car industry in Latin America were poor because the small size of the local market meant that small local plants could never compete on cost with imported cars . |
| 6 | After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light . |
| 7 | Difficult , delicate work , because the small stream is heavily wooded ; but the trout are of excellent quality and , although rarely very large , fight surprisingly well . |
| 8 | This can be a bit annoying , because the small area of the current box with the number 2 displayed is often not enough to allow you to see enough of this shade to make a really good colour match with a yarn held next to the screen . |
| 9 | Digital watches work because a small sliver of quartz inside them pulses at a rhythmic and unchanging frequency , which is stimulated by energy from the battery . |
| 10 | The system is in stable equilibrium because a small increase in the load torque retards the rotor , so the excitation changes occur at slightly smaller rotor positions . |
| 11 | However there is no need for the motor to travel a complete step in this first interval , because a small lag behind the phase equilibrium position can be recovered over subsequent steps . |
| 12 | These can be an effective way of getting through the work because a small group can afford to take more time to consider different aspects of a topic and can call in others to help — members of staff , parents and people from the local community with special expertise . |
| 13 | And there may be much truth in this — all professions in the US face the same problem , because a small group of lawyers are using the tort system to benefit not only their client but themselves , often operating on a contingency fee basis with no cost to the client . |