Example sentences of "[noun] the [adj] size " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other influences : In many cases the absolute size of the price of the underlying share may play a part in determining the option premiums . |
| 2 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 3 | The designer can thus either simply design the copper track layout first , and then make the board the correct size to accommodate it , or alternatively define the size of the board to start with and then try to make the copper track pattern fit it . |
| 4 | A kitchen the same size , off which there are small rooms , rather like chapels off a cathedral . |
| 5 | The Villa Arnaga is appropriately and massively theatrical : a traditional , asymmetrical Basque villa with pitched roof and balcony but inflated to several times the orthodox size for such buildings . |
| 6 | MB and MC measure the marginal benefit to your neighbour and marginal cost to you of a tree of size S. The efficient size is S * where the marginal cost and benefit are equal . |
| 7 | Annie has a little rug in her bedroom the same size , and every day she hoovers it . |
| 8 | The instructions were to agree one answer to this question ‘ Are these two bricks the same size , or is one of them bigger than the other ? ’ |
| 9 | How many blue cubes do you need to build a cube the same size as the red cube ? |
| 10 | There is some evidence that from the mid-1950s the average size of firm in manufacturing was growing as the employment share of firms with less than 100 workers fell from 60 to 50 per cent . |
| 11 | Keith insists that 's no more than any other home the same size , but he 's hoping the new buyer will care as much about the property as about the world 's threatened rain forests . |
| 12 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 13 | The distance between the horizontal rows of rings should be twice the depth of the bottom pelmet to make a pleat the same size as the pelmet . |
| 14 | An adjustable stop on the back of the jig keeps all the segments the same size . |
| 15 | Since each aliquot forms 2% of the original sample the full size distribution may be calculated through continued withdrawals to the finest required size . |
| 16 | In males the general size , especially in the lumbar region , is greater . |
| 17 | To make up a box , get a piece of hardboard the same size as the panel for the box bottom . |
| 18 | ( Miranda was n't very big , and she was looking for people the same size as her . ) |
| 19 | The way he carried out most of his large soft-ground etching was to make drawings on the spot on very thin paper the actual size the final print was to be . |
| 20 | Is that writing the same size or is yours smaller ? |
| 21 | In the past the sheer size of the labour force on many farms , particularly the larger farms in the South and East of England , minimized the contact between employer and employee . |
| 22 | His new parliament took into account the vast size of the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | The lay membership of the Executive Committee was reduced from twenty to eight , partly to take into account the smaller size of the union and partly to economise in travelling from distant ports . |
| 24 | The larger the tank the better when you take into account the potential size of the brood — one thousand babies are regularly seen with a large pair of managuense . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll never believe he done it , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , when she came round for a cup of tea and a slice of the action , ‘ not if he 's convicted by a dozen juries , and do n't tell me he 'll get a fair trial in the current climate of opinion , not unless they pick twelve men the same size and true . |
| 26 | Ian went off and came back with a box the same size as the ones that had been used for the train . |
| 27 | In a way the sheer size of the audience that the movies had discovered diverted attention away from any discussion of what the movies themselves actually were . |
| 28 | I decided that the artwork would be painted in pieces ; the backgrounds on a single sheet and the rest in sections the same size with the artwork for close up details painted twice up for reduction . |
| 29 | ( Low values of at increase the relative size of the noise nt in the B t 's signal extraction problem . ) |
| 30 | Then you 'd put the flimsy over it and then there was a kind of a an e an absorbent kind of a rag the right size , not too wet , cos if it was too wet it would run . |