Example sentences of "too big [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early-season mechanical problems with his car in 1972 were too big a handicap , despite his late-season burst , for him to win his third title but another title came in 1973 when he won five races and surpassed the all-time records of Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) and Jim Clark ( GB ) . |
| 2 | I was too big a man to get through the caves , but I listened hard and was sure I heard something . |
| 3 | I , I did do years gone by yes and they , they did move into the football combination at one time , because it was considered that the Midland Intermediate League was too big a jump for young men into the first team and the difference was so vast in the type of football that Walsall second team they u only playing young fellas , and they used to win seven and eight goal margins every week you know , but then they moved up into combination that was a better standard of football , but latter years economy drives and everything they came back out of the combination reverted to the Midland Intermediate again which I believe there are two phases of that no one for s older players and the other one strictly for youth players |
| 4 | In his cluttered roof-void office-cum-spare bedroom , where clothes dry under the skylight and ergonomics is too big a word to fit in , he writes massive chunks of operating software for mainframe computers , programmes which can take between one and a half and ten ‘ man years ’ to complete . |
| 5 | ‘ The analyst would agree with you so far — too big a dose . |
| 6 | This is too big a knife . |
| 7 | This is too big a knife . |
| 8 | Another strike , or too big a pay rise , and we might go under . ’ |
| 9 | Also , as with most undiscovered places , it wo n't put too big a hole in your pocket even for a fortnight . |
| 10 | if it gets too big a hole you see , it could be months before it heals up ! |
| 11 | But together they may be too big a proposition , and instead could turn from the hunted into the hunter . |
| 12 | Oliver glanced at Mr Hellyer and added with regret , ‘ Not too big a suitcase . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union was too big a problem even to begin thinking about seriously at that stage ; a military superpower still , even if its economy was falling apart and its politics were in uncertain flux from one-party dictatorship towards a multi-party democracy . |
| 14 | Perhaps that does n't sound like too big a problem , but when your memory goes , all your conversation goes with it . |
| 15 | This was , in fact , not too big a problem : Cracow had a 10pm curfew , and was in any case ‘ dead ’ after 9pm , she said She did try the odd night club and cinema , and was surprised to find English films with Polish sub-titles . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems that Matthew was running the thing on too big a scale for the size of the town — too much stock of the wrong sort and overheads too high . ’ |
| 17 | Was it too universal a theme for the Gaelic fund committee to tackle , too big a scale of project , too close to reality and too controversial a subject ? |
| 18 | ‘ We often get asked to look after elderly pets whose owners are worried that going into kennels may be too big a shock . ’ |
| 19 | The principle of whether features should or should not be binary ( i.e. ‘ + ’ or ‘ — ’ , ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ ) has been much argued about , but this is too big a question to go into here ( Hyman ( 1975 ) , pp. 32–3 , 55–8 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ People often make the mistake of buying far too big a turkey , ’ she says . |
| 21 | This is too big a responsibility for us to take on our own . |
| 22 | Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that . |
| 23 | New York 's city government has too much on its plate , too big a budget , too many employees , too powerful labour unions — and too few politicians with the guts to do anything about it |
| 24 | I do n't want to forget him — I could n't forget him , he was too big a part of my life and much too important to me . |
| 25 | But er I I understand why , because it played too big a part in my |
| 26 | She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms . |
| 27 | Although this influence is too big a subject to be discussed here , one aspect of it is vital to any consideration of Britten 's operas . |
| 28 | No doubt it would give Marguerite some comfort to be able to be warm and friendly with Russell 's daughter , but it was too big a price to pay . |
| 29 | Line-outs must now go with the throw as there is too big a gap between sides . |
| 30 | So , Knitmaster and Silver Reed owners , beware When you drop the ribber , do be careful not to also drop the pile levers into the ‘ closed ’ position or you will be knitting with too big a gap between the beds . |