Example sentences of "[was/were] 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 , 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was too big a man to get through the caves , but I listened hard and was sure I heard something . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We planted the major part of the scheme in three rows with the intention of eventually coppicing the smaller varieties but it very soon became obvious that the grass cutting was too big a job for our ancient mower . |
| 8 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 9 | But that was too big a step for convention to allow . |
| 10 | He then , after missing , goes on to say how he could of killed it but it was too big a step to be taking . |
| 11 | He thought that to stay was too big a risk as he might run into people he knew . |
| 12 | While such graphic interpretations of how Hendrix and his music influenced artists of the '60s were important , the brains behind the exhibition felt that the man was too big an icon to remain stuck in the past . |