Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of us still incorrectly believe that a well-balanced diet should include only small amounts of bread because it is fattening . |
| 2 | It may also include very small remains such as pollen grains , that can only be seen and identified with the aid of a microscope . |
| 3 | I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small . |
| 4 | Well I only , th I mean the woman made me feel dead small because I said to her you know , she was asking everybody why they 'd come and I said , well I 've only come to give Chris moral support , which was the truth because until about three hours before we went , I did n't even know it was there |
| 5 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 6 | Each line had its speciality ; it might comprise exceptionally small girls , or very tall ones , or talented acrobats , but whatever the speciality , all could sing and dance . |
| 7 | It may be one that is large and far-reaching or it may appear relatively small and trivial but … ( of ) special significance for the person who makes it is that his choice will help to determine the pattern of his unique development over time . |
| 8 | ‘ Reading your magazine makes me feel very small ’ , he wrote . |
| 9 | ‘ — it will make us look rather small fry . ’ |
| 10 | Some stars will become so small that their gravitational fields will bend light to that point that it comes back toward the star . |
| 11 | But , as primarily a meat substitute aimed at former carnivores , the portion in the film-wrapped tray can look pathetically small to a population that has been raised on the traditional four to eight ounces of meat each meal . |
| 12 | And Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown said industry could become too small even to ‘ benefit substantially ’ from an upturn . |
| 13 | I do n't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use . |
| 14 | His successor pursued a more cautious path but there was a danger that party membership would become too small to maintain satisfactory links with the bulk of the population . |
| 15 | The so-called leisure and recreation programmes would be the responsibility of the local authority and might become too small to be financially , organisationally or educationally viable . |
| 16 | Then you can use very small doses , they go straight to the lungs , and |
| 17 | AT&T Co 's Tridom unit will provide very small aperture terminal satellite communications equipment to Citra Sari Makmur of Jakarta , Indonesia : Citra has an unrestricted licence to build and operate VSAT-based services in Indonesia and Tridom will install an AT&T Clearlink hub station and 150 VSATs . |
| 18 | Anything less than about 600 x 750mm long ( 24 x 30in ) may look too small . |
| 19 | ‘ We shall probably have mostly small animals at first . ’ |
| 20 | That would destroy more small businesses and large companies , even more people would be made unemployed and more families would lose their homes . |
| 21 | But even if this conclusion is not justified , we can say that infallible beliefs must have vanishingly small content . |
| 22 | But what er what what needles me a bit , but you ca n't blame them cos I , if I was er a small communications firm I 'd do the same myself , but , you see we wo n't sell now small systems through a sell |
| 23 | Well what do you call too small ? |
| 24 | Scuba divers can protect only small areas . |
| 25 | Even though the application of common sense will almost always ensure that no breach occurs , it will pay even small firms to detail one of the partners or a senior employee to vet all publicity material to ensure its compliance with these rules and regulations . |
| 26 | These developments are most likely to affect urban dwellers and those displaced people and migrants in the urban areas who can not afford even small charges for their children 's education . |
| 27 | are really making is that this period may seem trivially small compared , say , to the sinkage of capital involved in the decision to build and operate a power station . |
| 28 | At any one time , then , the total quantity of plants in the sea may seem relatively small . |
| 29 | To a person 's tongue , a hole in one of his teeth may seem very large , although to others , looking in his mouth , it may seem quite small . |
| 30 | Its eyes can discern very small intervals of time ( it can respond to a falling hand in less than one hundredth of a second ) , and our clumsy attempts to kill it must appear ponderously slow , as if filmed in slow motion . |