Example sentences of "too [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They speed up the rates of interconversions of compounds that would otherwise proceed too slowly to be useful . |
| 2 | But , even if they did , experience shows that people usually react far too slowly to an alarm , particularly in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | IS Britain responding too slowly to shifting priorities in research ? |
| 4 | These errors made , the world reacted too slowly to their results , especially in Bosnia . |
| 5 | In most parts of the world , the churches are often accused of responding too slowly to the challenges imposed on society by the media . |
| 6 | In most parts of the world , the churches are often accused of responding too slowly to the challenges imposed on society by the media . |
| 7 | Britain , the self-assured Palmerston included , reacted too slowly to shifts in the balance of forces in Europe after 1848 and found her power to influence Continental affairs substantially reduced . |
| 8 | There may follow a lack of communication and understanding between the computer professionals , the legal advisers , the ultimate users and the supplier of the software resulting in the purchase of a system which is cumbersome , does not provide all the information the users now realize they would have liked and which runs far too slowly to be of any practical use . |
| 9 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 10 | Are British firms reacting too slowly to a problem that could one day land them in court ? |
| 11 | The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism . |
| 12 | The third country in Panama still belongs all too obviously to the United States . |
| 13 | Most mahouts , though sadly not all , value their elephants too highly to ill-treat them . |
| 14 | Industry watchers say IBM has waited too long to roll-out the AIX database and predict it will only shore up dedicated IBM mainframe clients — users with RS/6000s running Sybase Inc and Oracle Corp databases are unlikely candidates , the company admits . |
| 15 | Her fervour and her depiction of a siege mentality do not transfer too easily to Britain . |
| 16 | They lent too much too easily to unstable third world countries , private corporations built on sand and risky clients . |
| 17 | They thought that he reconciled himself too easily to his position , and that he had developed a taste for exile as an escape from business . |
| 18 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 19 | She criticizes John for having accepted too readily the standards of the day and for having adapted too easily to the social and literary context in which he found himself : |
| 20 | We should n't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand , we 'll use them without thought ; we wo n't be able to resist . |
| 21 | Governments are expected to meet again here on January 18 to review the past six months , and many , particularly the US , are expected to argue that it is far too soon to be sending Vietnamese back against their will . |
| 22 | I feel very happy about my form and technique , very content , ’ he adds , having learnt from a poor tour of Australia the winter before last to adapt his technique and not commit himself too soon to a stroke . |
| 23 | It is too soon to be sure that any such desecration has been avoided , but the excellent scheme by Allies and Morrison which has now been adopted is already on course for completion by the arrival of the Tall Ships in 1992 . |
| 24 | Today we are moving towards more equal and mutual ways of arranging our lives , but it is still too soon to be able to see clearly how this may change our ideas of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 25 | It is none too soon to be aware of the tests we may face , but our defence will not lie in brilliant , far-sighted anticipation of specific pressures and persecutions . |
| 26 | There may be the germs of many good ideas there , but to allow them out and pick them over is to expose them too soon to the light of day . |
| 27 | But it 's far too soon to be writing the post-mortems . |
| 28 | Very often the consumer media tend to be thought of together as all one group , but this leads all too soon to the sort of comments outlined in the introduction to this chapter . |
| 29 | As yet it is too soon to be sure of what happened . |
| 30 | It was too soon to be fitzAlan , she told herself , reason overwhelming her first impulsive hope . |