Example sentences of "[be] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We 're a small happy club |
| 3 | The threateningly titled ‘ Live Vol 1 ’ is easier to live without unless you 're a small convert already . |
| 4 | Well , it was like waiting for Christmas when you 're a small child : every day seems to last about six months . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But we 're a small country now : we ca n't afford big mistakes . ’ |
| 7 | They cost £2.50 a quarter , but are so rich they 're a small treat you can spread out . |
| 8 | and I got a greater kinship because they 're a small group . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | No I do n't mean you 're a small size . |
| 11 | I am a small and thin person and being fat was great ! |
| 12 | And the fact that I am a small blonde is probably a bonus on this occasion . |
| 13 | " I am a small one-man business , but I think I am equally efficient . |
| 14 | When she had been a tiny child , and Fenna had still been a small , manageable and undemanding dragon she had , often spoken of him , to her mother who had grinned , to her grandmother who had smiled , and to her schoolteachers and friends , who had laughed indulgently . |
| 15 | Mompesson , whose wife was among those to succumb , wrote that Eyam had become ‘ a Golgotha — a place of skulls ; and had there no been a small remnant of us left , we had been as Sodom and Gomorrah . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And a mess of twisted brass bonded with what had once been a small but efficient pulse-receiver . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What had been a small dark circle was a larger dark circle , with just a suspicion of smoke or steam around its edges . |
| 27 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There has been a small input from RTE . |