Example sentences of "[am/are] too large " in BNC.

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1 They 're too large , but he says he 's seen me wear the colours .
2 Yeah , well , they say that they 're too large to poach them with , they come over the top , there we are , thank you .
3 TEACHERS in east London are set to walk out of schools today if asked to take classes which they believe are too large .
4 The ideas are too large and too all-embracing for the finite mind to absorb them .
5 Debts of major companies such as Olympia & York and Heron , and even minnows such as Speyhawk , are too large for the banks to pull the rug .
6 In most educational institutions teams are imbalanced ; if they are too large or too small they will be dysfunctional .
7 The caddis chooses its stones carefully , rejecting those that are too large or too small for the current gap in the wall , even rotating each stone until it achieves the snuggest fit .
8 This problem arises because each grid cell can only have a single attribute value and because the chosen grid dimensions are too large to resolve the spatial detail required .
9 Mandibles of lagomorphs are almost never found in pellets of the species investigated here , even in the largest eagle owl pellets , presumably because lagomorph skulls are too large to be swallowed whole , but fragments of skull and jaw are present in mammalian scats .
10 It has been thought that aircraft maintenance problems i.e. planning/scheduling activities , aircraft system/equipment failure diagnosis , etc. , are too large and complex to be tackled successfully with computers .
11 Crazy paving can also be laid on sand , but it is not vibrated , as the joints are too large .
12 Pieces which are too large can be broken by laying the slab on a bed sand , then topping smartly with a club hammer .
13 Craft knives can be useful for trimming pieces of pressed material if they are too large or the wrong shape .
14 If the sectional open type of plate is used , then the fry can be trapped beneath them if the gaps where the water flow goes through are too large — the strength of the turnover rate can add to this problem .
15 The calves , when only a few days old , are tethered by the neck in a stall about 60 cms wide and 150 cms long , until they are too large to turn .
16 Two- and three-year-old fish are too large most birds , but have traditionally been an important part of the diet of the Shetland people .
17 The unique Late Permian palaeogeography does not feature in any of the current physical climate models , usually on the grounds that dimensions of unit cells used in sensitivity experiments are too large to include such details , or that the geography is a result of ‘ microclimate ’ influences .
18 Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has introduced a new Y-MP M90 series of supercomputers , claiming that they offer the largest main memories ever , in the hope that they make it possible to solve important scientific and engineering problems that are too large for the memory of any existing computer system to handle efficiently .
19 To look for soil animals which are too large to pass through the sieve make a salt solution by dissolving 9 tablespoonfuls of cooking salt in 1½ litres ( 2½ pints ) of water .
20 It also allows Minton , without breaking the realist mode , to manipulate scale so that , by academic standards , the feet are too large in relation to the head .
21 Many homes are too large to be homely .
22 Your display will be top-heavy if the flowers you choose are too large for the container .
23 ‘ Most old castles are too large to be lived in now — you 'd need hordes of retainers . ’
24 They consider the gates are too large and out of keeping with the character of the area .
25 The number of modules too large to fit volume specifies the number of modules which are too large to fit into an empty volume .
26 Most fields are too large to research convincingly , unless you go into them with at least a provisional focus .
27 And that 's hampering the whole development process because it 's high , high wages , high wages creates migration and the whole resource allocation reflects in the economies er are disrupted and because people are moving out of agriculture because they ca n't make any money from agriculture they think they can make some money in industry like agriculture itself is being starved of capital and er so it hampers the development process , I mean it 's a complicated business but er there may well be some , some sort of strands of sense that we can draw out of this , one of which may be well if the government sectors are too large in these countries essentially it does n't matter who owns these companies whether it 's , they were privately owned or government , erm if they are inefficient they are inefficient
28 The scientists warn that the deposits of pyrites are too large to neutralize by liming .
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