Example sentences of "to [be] small [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be concluded therefore that the action project appears to make a difference in terms of the length of time people are sustained at home , but only to a certain type of dementia sufferer , and the numbers affected are likely to be small unless a wide geographical area is covered . |
| 2 | It was to start on the night of 17 November , and L Detachment 's role in this was to be small but potentially crucial . |
| 3 | In Figure 1.2 the home country is assumed to be small while the partner country and the rest of the world is large . |
| 4 | On a mixed farm , there would be a larger number of buildings for cattle , while on a pastoral farm the reduced need for waggon horses caused the stables to be small and there would be little accommodation for crops . |
| 5 | We would always like residuals from a fit to be small and patternless . |
| 6 | Single bushes present no problems since the root system is likely to be small and shallow , but a thicket — a group of bushes and brambles combined — is less easy . |
| 7 | Inefficiency in the clinics and the universities is compounded by the fact that research groups tend to be small and isolated , shunning collaborative links with other small groups , either locally or nationally . |
| 8 | There is an increase in risk due to irradiation of the breast , but this is likely to be small and is best estimated from a woman 's age and dose of irradiation . |
| 9 | Because women homeworkers ' wages tended to be small and because it is not clear either how many ‘ hard cases ’ there were , or how large the homeworking sector was , historians have tended to regard this area of women 's employment as being of slight importance . |
| 10 | Lexicons for such systems tend to be small and hand-crafted , reflecting the proprietary nature of lexicons and the difficulties in obtaining the required grammatical information . |
| 11 | ( ‘ Nature intended them all to be small and prickly , ’ Clare had pointed out unkindly in one animated discussion . ) |
| 12 | Government is decentralised , factories tend to be small and cooperative , and so on . |