Example sentences of "big [coord] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marmeladov 's huge notebook gesture towards Christ and the Russian people and suffering constitutes one warning that Dostoevsky was , at one stage , after something too big or too difficult or perhaps simply wrong for Crime and Punishment ; and Sonya 's declaration , again in the notebooks , makes a second : ‘ The Russian people have always suffered like Christ , says Sonya . ’ |
| 2 | Nothing is too big or too small for his concern . |
| 3 | We come to the living world with senses adapted to primate life , and we may miss things that are too fast , too slow , too big or too small . |
| 4 | Whereas the STANDARD shaping section will not , for example , allow you to have a sleeve head that is too big or too small for the armhole , this is not the case with the ORIGINAL shaping section . |
| 5 | For decades women have agonized over their breasts — either too big or too small ; their overall body shape — no waist , bum too big , legs too short ; and the various component parts of face and hair , all of which have to be altered , enhanced or de-emphasized at regular intervals . |
| 6 | Whether one thinks that the differences between the programmes are big or small , or too big or too small , depends on value judgements and political perspectives . |
| 7 | What , too big or too small ? |
| 8 | The French Texel is too much like a Mule — too big and too long . |
| 9 | ‘ It was too big and too open plan … |
| 10 | These steps into new territory were too big and too risky to be undertaken by individual merchants . |
| 11 | Government had become too big and too expensive . |
| 12 | Problems of inequality and disadvantage are thus , in one sense , too big and too fundamental for education per se , let alone adult education , to resolve . |
| 13 | Too big and too dramatic , with his wild black hair , copper-dark suntan and eyes as black as midnight . |