Example sentences of "too small to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're too big to be niche players and too small to be low-cost producers . ’ |
| 2 | True , the Liberal Nationals were becoming indistinguishable from the Conservatives , while National Labour was too small to be able to exert very much influence upon the massed ranks of Conservatives , although the prestige of the Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , gave it — as Marquand shows — an influence far greater than its mere numbers would have warranted . |
| 3 | Just too small to be noticed from the boat , a graffito on County Hall reads ‘ Come back , Ken ’ . |
| 4 | The chance of winning £75,000 , then the top prize on the football pools , was too small to be visible but in the Fifties this slender possibility mesmerized the nation . |
| 5 | But they could probably learn something from the occupational pluralism practised by crofters as an adaption to living on agricultural holdings too small to be economically viable . |
| 6 | A few protozoan groups secrete hard tests ( shells ) which are very common fossils , but again most of these are too small to be easily spotted in the field . |
| 7 | Transduction seems to be too drastic and to involve fragments of DNA too small to be of serious ecological importance . |
| 8 | In the past , it often seemed that the fines were too small to be effective — the maximum fine a magistrates court can impose is £2,000 . |
| 9 | Tapes could be made for specific campaigns , for use in education , or simply to cater for communities of interest too small to be considered by the broadcasters . |
| 10 | Almost too small to be a man . |
| 11 | He was a tall , bony old man , with a long melancholy face and little bushy whiskers — ‘ lamb cutlets , ’ thought Breeze , for they were too small to be called ordinary mutton chops . |
| 12 | Later on a neighbour sold us a reckling — that 's the runt of the litter , too small to be really valuable — and I did name him . |
| 13 | The polyps of leather corals are too small to be fed individually in the way that some hard corals are , though some of them will take newly-hatched brine shrimp . |
| 14 | Again , though , there 's a legibility problem ; although back-lit , the letters and numerals are too small to be easily distinguished . |
| 15 | In response to the news , Anglo United pulled out of the bidding for the company , explaining that the operation was now too small to be of any interest . |
| 16 | While Hank was , in his grandparents ’ opinion , too small to be left alone , the two grandmothers had insisted that he accompany his mother , and he had enjoyed wandering round the Palichuk pig farm with his grandfather or playing in a corner of the lounge of his Grandmother Stych 's more fashionable home . |
| 17 | Griffith therefore postulated that ordinary glass is full of very fine cracks , too small to be seen by any ordinary means . |
| 18 | Even though Jane was too small to be a model , Sarah helped her win the lead role in the blockbuster film The Lover — and even enlisted her family to help the girl learn to act . |
| 19 | There are two deep , zipped back pockets and double pockets at the front , the inner ones too small to be really useful . |
| 20 | I was very concerned that the space of the north gallery would dissipate out into these side pockets , these large shadow boxes , which are too small to be rooms and too large to function as niches for sculpture . |
| 21 | Where competing firms are small they may wish not only to help regulate competition in the product market by joining together , but also to protect themselves against a marked inequality in bargaining power , since they are too small to be able to deal effectively with the trade unions unaided . |
| 22 | For conventional 3-D superconductors , the fractional change in normal conductivity , too small to be observable in any meaningful temperature interval above T c . |
| 23 | Some are so widely separated that their motion relative to each other is too small to be measured at all , and all we can really say is that they are travelling through space together , at the same rate and in the same direction . |
| 24 | Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use . |
| 25 | The lower frequency words exhibit statistically unstable behaviour , because the sample of contexts in which they participate is too small to be an adequate representation . |
| 26 | We define the two conditions of ( exponent ) overflow and underflow , when the exponent becomes respectively too large or too small to be represented in floating-point format . |
| 27 | Furthermore , chimaeras have not been obtained from embryos injected before the middle of the 9th day of gestation , presumably because younger embryos are physically too small to be successfully penetrated , or to tolerate penetration . |
| 28 | The woman who feels her breasts are too small to be attractive , the man who is bothered by his small stature , the individual subject to some ( even very minor ) deformity or disfigurement may all have difficulty in forming the relationships upon which sexual attraction and activity are based not because of the physical " problem " but by reason of their own exaggerated view of it . |
| 29 | If the School 's size had made it too small to be a " full comprehensive unit " , it also caused problems in that a two-form entry of 60 boys meant that some Sixth Form courses could not be economically viable . |
| 30 | When his estimate is replaced by a more realistic one , the predicted parallax turns out to be too small to be detectable by Brahé 's instruments . |