Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [art] small " in BNC.
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1 | It 's from the Bible , actually , and it would have formed a small part of what I wanted to say to you this morning ; ‘ Do n't make friends with people who have hot , violent tempers . |
2 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
3 | The ward sister and trained staff on the other hand may have forgotten the small incidents which cause anxiety in the learner . |
4 | Had the Lebanese gunmen not been so enthusiastic in their celebrations , they might have noticed a small but symbolic incident which cast a shadow over the Syrians ' arrival . |
5 | In Brighton , the Prince Regent 's city , people do not go to bed early , and an observer would have noticed a small group of revellers making its way along the strand to the accompaniment of snatches of song and bursts of loud laughter . |
6 | A keen observer , or possibly any male over the age of twelve , might well have noticed the small hand-gun nestling in her cleavage . |
7 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
8 | Parliament , had it been required to do so by the European Court of Human Rights , could have made a small , interstitial alteration of the law by , for example , merely amending the relevant section of the Birth and Death Registration Act 1953 ; or used the opportunity to undertake a wholesale revision of the law as it affects transsexuals . |
9 | He 'll have needed a small coffin . |
10 | Coal tar condensate must have closed the small hole in the lid , and the resulting explosion put a nasty black ring on the dining room ceiling . |
11 | ‘ If she had married before she died , the sister would only have got a small legacy . |
12 | This very landscape must have played no small part in the formation of Tennyson 's poetic mind , as it is vibrantly alive with nature and natural forces . |
13 | Astute readers might also have found a small note , placed in the magazine 's gossip column , referring to the front page story and reminding readers that it was 1 April — placed there by Birbeck as a precautionary measure . |
14 | I really felt she had gone too far ; the book must have cost a small fortune . |
15 | Some of the equipment in here must have cost a small fortune — it would be dreadful , would n't it , if there should happen to be an accident ? ’ |
16 | If the scientists succeed , they will have taken a small step toward improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion devices . |
17 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
18 | Even if " organizational unity " with the ILP had been carried through , this would at best only have doubled the small membership of the Communist Party . |