Example sentences of "[be] a small [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may as well have been a small part of a photograph album gathering dust in the depth of someone 's attic . |
| 2 | These civil service pension arrangements were in due course copied , with modifications , by other public and private sector employers , though up to World War I it appears to have been a small minority of mainly the more prestigious employers who developed such formal occupational pension provision . |
| 3 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 10 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 11 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 12 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 13 | There has been a small input from RTE . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |
| 16 | Churchgoing Anglicans are a small minority of England 's population . |
| 17 | The problem is that they are a small sample of all criminals , and almost certainly unrepresentative . |
| 18 | ‘ They have caused a lot of interest here , as we are a small school with just 60 pupils , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Because the initial margin payments are a small fraction of the value of the contract , the percentage gains or losses to the counterparties are magnified in comparison with the changes in the futures price . |
| 20 | However , it is widely known that only a small proportion of such qualifying mergers are referred , and further that vertical mergers are a small proportion of the total . |
| 21 | And the words we use are a small part of the process . |
| 22 | We are a small group of 10 special children with their mothers and a band of helpers and medical staff . |
| 23 | Yes , well , we do have a housing crisis , there is no doubt about that , but to say that it 's government created is just another ploy of the Labour Group and the Liberal Democrats who , as Michael has said , are usually incohesion ; that is why we are a small group of ten on Council fighting probably about thirty five . |
| 24 | As it happens , there are a small number of positional characteristics in chess that are roughly associated with advantage and are easy to quantify . |
| 25 | We should note in passing , however , that there are a small number of studies focusing on the expressive order of the workplace which can again be interpreted with the concepts we have outlined earlier . |
| 26 | More noteworthy are a small number of words and phrases apparently adopted from Middle Dutch , including the name Wilekin , which has the Dutch diminutive suffix -kin . |
| 27 | If there are a small number of personal injury lawyers in your firm then consider a newsletter that covers several areas of law such as other litigation matters . |
| 28 | ‘ There are a small number of people who have the sort of brain and understanding necessary . ’ |
| 29 | This involves a major change in shape , for the cells that will form the gut are a small patch on the outside and so must move inwards ; this infolding of the wall will move right across the hollow interior to meet the wall on the other side where the mouth will form . |
| 30 | Lying in the sparkling Pacific , the volcanic islands which make up Hawaii are a small slice of sophisticated Americana mixed with warm tropical breezes , coconut trees and magnificent beaches . |