Example sentences of "too small to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | too small to be sound |
| 32 | It should be emphasized that this has nothing to do with our normal perception of color ; quarks are far too small to be seen by visible light . |
| 33 | More than one researcher abandoned the field with the argument that if the biochemical changes really ‘ coded for ’ memory in the brain then they would be too small to be measured , and if they were large enough to be measured then they probably were n't anything to do with memory . |
| 34 | Too small to be able to carry massive winter insulation , they nevertheless survive ; it is remarkable to see such tiny objects maintaining normal avian body temperatures ( 39–40°C ) in ambient temperatures some 60–70°C lower , seeking shelter under eaves and in or under snow , and maintaining their high metabolic rate by constant foraging . |
| 35 | He guessed that the agreeably proportioned salon , too small to be partitioned and not large enough for a working laboratory , had escaped the fate of so much of the house more for administrative and scientific convenience than from any sensitivity on Colonel Hoggatt 's part to its innate perfection . |
| 36 | The tree had survived because the square was too small to be taken seriously as a car park , and to make quite sure , some public-spirited individual had painted yellow lines round it . |
| 37 | Individual grains of dust are too small to be individually dated and thus each age determination of the dust samples corresponds to the average of many grains . |
| 38 | There was more writing beneath this , but it was printed too small to be legible . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Half of these farms are too small to be liable businesses , and many produce too small an income to support the household . |
| 41 | ‘ She looked too small to be the Queen , ’ said Mr Fagan , so he drew back the curtains to get a better look . |
| 42 | Ultimately , therefore , even if the big publishers had properly understood how software would be used in classrooms , they might well have found the size of the industry too small to be worth their attention and resources . |
| 43 | Effective though it proved , the device of holding down output in the hope of driving up prices brought with it problems not to be found in any economics textbook : the global output ceiling , if set realistically in relation to demand , can easily prove too small to be divided amicably . |
| 44 | ‘ … there are innumerable situations in which they [ tests of significance ] are totally unnecessary — because the difference is grotesquely obvious , because it is neglible , or because , whether it be formally significant or not , it is too small to be of any practical importance . |
| 45 | It should be added that , whilst pressure measurements are often very useful in wind-tunnel and similar studies , the pressure variations occurring in many experiments , for example in the field of free convection , are too small to be measured . |
| 46 | The banks say the Phoenix survey is too small to be representative but insist it 's up to customers to check statements . |
| 47 | Typically the gain becomes too small to be useful at frequencies above ∼100 kHz . |
| 48 | Apparently , watch batteries are just too small to be practical on our shelves . |
| 49 | It was red and looked too small to be a lorry but never the less it had wheels like the carts in the village . |
| 50 | Beyond that the angles involved become just too small to be measured and we have to use a quite different kind of technique which involves knowing something about the properties of the objects we 're looking at . |