Example sentences of "large [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 As the existing windows were more than large enough to light the second-storey accommodation to building regulations standards , it was decided to shorten these openings .
2 Although the suggestion of convergence of the dose response curves for salbutamol is in keeping with an interaction between an agonist and a partial agonist , our data suggest that this interaction is unlikely to be large enough to cause a clinically important reduction in beneficial or adverse effects of salbutamol in patients taking salmeterol .
3 The tetanus of the small e.p.s.p. was paired with the simultaneous tetanus of additional fibres at a similar depth in the stratum radiatum , together producing an e.p.s.p. usually large enough to cause the neuron to fire action potentials during each tetanus .
4 Some rooms are also large enough to take a fourth bed .
5 The rooms are all large enough to take a third or fourth bed .
6 All bedrooms have a private bathroom , and all are large enough to take a third bed .
7 Beneath the control panel is the grill with a generous grill pan large enough to take a family-sized mixed grill .
8 There are two slanting zip pockets with weather flaps and an inside pocket which is not quite large enough to take a full size OS map .
9 Peter often tried to describe what Kate looked like as she stood in the doorway , half in , half out , glancing at her watch and swinging an embroidered bag barely large enough to take a packet of cigarettes .
10 Just drill a hole in the middle of the lid large enough to take a 15mm 90 degree plastic elbow , to which the pipe is then fitted with another elbow at the top .
11 Steam for 1½ hr before unmoulding and serving on a hot platter large enough to take the pudding and its moat of butterscotch sauce .
12 The bodkins , which were large enough to take the thin string for the buttons , were much too short to reach through the stuffing .
13 In Nucella the hole bored through the victim 's shell is large enough to take the proboscis , and the whelk does not need to alter position on its prey once the hole is completed .
14 However of course it 's not readily applicable to most endomembranes , because most endomembranes are er not large enough most endomembrane compartments are lo not large enough to facilitate the application of this pipette .
15 It should , he reflected , be more than large enough to finish the job .
16 The first stages are fitted with input offset adjustments just large enough to cancel the largest field likely to be encountered , namely the total inclined component in the middle latitudes .
17 He continued to speculate on the subject , and wrote letters to various journals , but seems to have done little further practical work until 1849 , when a glider large enough to carry a small boy was launched in free flight at Brompton .
18 As the lifting kite is going to be large enough to carry the weight of line , carrier and passenger(s) , there will be quite a pull , so it pays to use good quality braided Dacron of adequate breaking strain .
19 By contrast , increased population counts will enable multiple retailers to identify towns which , for the first time , are large enough to sustain a branch .
20 It is also very much of an ideal size — not so large as to be overwhelming , yet large enough to sustain a wide variety of cultural enjoyment in the Arts , Music and Drama .
21 And the principles underlying it , despite short-term political bargaining over boundaries , were relatively simple , too : to have major services , councils had to have populations large enough to sustain an efficient delivery system ; to have strategic planning functions , still larger bodies were needed , to reflect the need to attract technically adequate staff and to interest political leaders of a sufficiently high calibre .
22 It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities .
23 .. ’ Mortimer confesses that he thinks Labour wo n't be near large enough to form the next government .
24 One tree was large enough to allow a motorcar to pass through it .
25 This ‘ co-operatively rearranging region ’ is large enough to allow a transition to a new conformation , hence is determined by the chain conformation and by definition will equal the sample size at T 2 where only one conformation is available to each molecule .
26 Most units were large enough to allow the son to return to work at home , in which case the wife 's role changed again to that of housewife .
27 The division between the sleeping and run sections is fitted at floor level with a hole just large enough to allow the ferrets easy passage but small enough to prevent them dragging food carcasses from the run section into the sleeping quarters .
28 My own suggestion would be an outside vivarium lined with aluminium and with an escape-proof down-turned lip , meshed over to prevent predation by cats , herons , or rooks , but large enough to allow the animal to catch natural food finding its way in .
29 However , even in nominally constant-density flows it may be possible to introduce density differences which are large enough to allow the use of one of these techniques whilst keeping the internal Froude number high enough for the flow to be unaffected .
30 Through the close-mesh fence topped by razor wire he could see the wide double doors large enough to let a three-ton lorry into the huge earth mound .
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