Example sentences of "the size " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a commercial gallery , the size of the rooms is decisive . |
| 2 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
| 3 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 5 | The size of it . |
| 6 | As always , amazed at the size of it , nine feet high and six across . |
| 7 | At the Huntsman 's Inn in Ide , Kent , the refurbishment proposals were to involve demolitions so extensive that all but a portion of the building 's external wall would be destroyed , the planned reconstruction included an extension that would double the size of the original structure . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 9 | The important thing is to choose the right rootstock for the size of tree you eventually want . ’ |
| 10 | If possible increase the size of any vaguely level area already there , as we did with the lawn . |
| 11 | Planning Permission depends on the size of the work and whether it affects other priorities . |
| 12 | But whatever the size of your company and whatever business you are in , I believe it will be to your benefit to read this booklet and act upon its recommendations . |
| 13 | Specifically , in Piaget 's theory the infant 's central systems develop by ‘ assimilating ’ perceptual data ( data implying ‘ graspable ’ / ‘ suckable ’ / ‘ trackable ’ /whatever ) to actions whilst ‘ accommodating ’ ( that is changing in a goal-driven way ) the actions taken in terms of the outcome ( changing the grasp , the suck , or the head movement in terms of the size , contour , or the trajectory of the datum ) . |
| 14 | A stimulus will generate an ERP only if it falls within our sensory window and the size and form of that ERP will vary according to our general state of alertness , of which alpha blocking is one important indicator . |
| 15 | As early as 1957 , Michel Jouvet in Lyons had reported that the size of the ERP generated by a visual stimulus from the occipital cortex at the back of the brain , a primarily visual area , decreased when the subject was asked to attend to an auditory stimulus . |
| 16 | Extensity ( for example the size of a patch of light ) usually correlates with the number and spatial distribution of receptors activated . |
| 17 | I am afraid I am cynical enough to believe this is just another round of a giant game of poker , where the only thing that will matter in the end will be the size of the cheque . |
| 18 | This way the size of the kit increases gradually with no large cash outlay . |
| 19 | ( Remember that these values will depend upon the size of the egg , the type of milk , the cut of the steak and so on . ) |
| 20 | The chose pose proved interesting , and suited the size of the timber , yielding very little waste . |
| 21 | Obviously you will need a longer and wider piece of wood than the size of the cutlery blank . |
| 22 | These photographs — ‘ my life 's blood ’ — are pinned to his bench enabling him to check the size and configuration of the newly-carved elements . |
| 23 | The size of the grant will depend on the work you have done , and who does it . |
| 24 | The size of the grant you get depends on your income . |
| 25 | The size of the grant you get depends on your income . |
| 26 | the way reviews are carried out reflects the size and type of authority and the attitude of senior officers and councillors ; |
| 27 | Moreover no matter the size of part each dancer has to play in the unfolding of the plot or the quality of each dancer 's place in the dance design , everything must be mapped in every aspect . |
| 28 | Unlike serious pollsters , the brewer 's flaccid organ fails to report the size of the sample of Scousers interviewed but it is believed to be adjacent to the number of fans at a Tranmere Rovers away match . |
| 29 | Erdinger is by far the biggest wheat-beer producer in Germany ( about twice the size of the other famous specialist , Schneider Weisse ) . |
| 30 | All the same , the takeover of Hoare 's doubled the size of the Anchor brewery 's tied estate , and gave Charrington 's one-third of all the pubs in the City of London and a fair proportion of those in the East End . |