Sentence examples for wrong proportion from inspiring English sources

That is quite the wrong proportion for it to take off.

However, a wrong proportion of concrete or an unsuited method of filling can generate a heterogeneous distribution of its various constituents.

Things were in the wrong proportion and it all looked slightly out of kilter, but the advantage of having a designer is that you get a much better end result.

Making his way down a long, angular hallway to the living room, Mr. Marvin was delighted by what he found: Although Ms. Sperling said she felt her old sofa was "too chunky" and the wrong proportion for the room, Mr. Marvin liked its shape and its clean, tailored lines.

If this is the case, then the wrong proportion of components forming the sponge-like body that resulted from the RNAi of Brownie should have led to the observed phenotype.

If you mix the ingredients in the wrong proportion and in the wrong way it doesn't give as good a result as it could do.

He said the university system was producing graduates "in the wrong proportions" for the labour market: too few engineers, for instance, and too many lawyers.

Head of production design Alan Davis said the first bay window was built to the wrong proportions.

The principle and basic technique remain the same, and you can hardly go wrong: the proportions are two parts water (or other liquid) to one part sugar.

The poll found that 54% of Americans consider torture "wrong", a lower proportion than in any other population save for those of Israel and Palestine.

When you get this proportion wrong, you will talk yourself out of more sales than into them.