Example sentences of "[be] too late [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it may be too late to gather any more that season , you would at least have a permanent record so you could return in the following year to collect some more . |
| 2 | They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter . |
| 3 | They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter . |
| 4 | With Cutty Ranks rising fast in Shabba 's slipstream — even recording with Home T and Cocoa Tea — Shabba must know that it may be too late to turn back now . |
| 5 | Once the scheme is launched it may be too late to save it from failure if you have no readily available answers to the many questions that employees will certainly raise . |
| 6 | ‘ But — but it will be too late to save anyone . ’ |
| 7 | But it must be too late to save Daak , she thought . |
| 8 | He says it may already be too late to save the Shias and their ancient culture . |
| 9 | If the door is shut and the door knob is too hot you are advised not to go into the room since it will be too late to save your child and you risk causing a fireball . |
| 10 | But he was concerned that it could be too late to arrange something . |
| 11 | It might not be too late to invite him to dinner , If he 's got nothing else planned . |
| 12 | It would now be too late to force the abolition of plural voting on the House of Lords before the next general election ; something at least had been achieved . |
| 13 | Howarth probably expected a lynch party : that morning , leading members of a group of 2,000 expatriate scientists wrote in a letter to The Times that it may be too late to halt the brain drain and decline in morale unless the Government shows a real commitment to research . |
| 14 | Strong attitudes may have formed by then and teaching of avoidance skills may be too late to immunise children effectively against the pressures to smoke . |
| 15 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |
| 16 | Even if the company wins the order , however , it will be too late to stave off 300 redundancies . |
| 17 | It might not be too late to get a direct order through to Kirov on the radio . |
| 18 | By that time it may be too late to get into the market place with the product . |
| 19 | Whoever comes to Oxford 's rescue it 'll be too late to keep Paul Simpson and his goal scoring talents at the Manor Ground . |
| 20 | The effect of the disappearance of such local legislation in 1919 is that it would be unwise to leave off drafting replacement legislation until 1978 , since if an order for the purpose met with any setback it might be too late to correct it before the present law disappears . |
| 21 | If she missed it , it might mean that she would be too late to rescue Joe . |
| 22 | These changes in emphasis are welcome but may be too late to reinstate Morrison and Boyd as the brand leader . |
| 23 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 24 | After that , it may be too late to make a claim . |
| 25 | He said he 's sending someone up there , when they 're gon na provide a series , it 's gon na be too late to make anyway . |
| 26 | But it may not be too late to suggest that Waugh 's reputation for right-wingery — a reputation swallowed by Orwell and many since — has been mildly overdone . |
| 27 | The Chancellor 's Autumn Statement will be too late to help Elizabeth Smart herself — the fencing business her father began 30 years ago is now in receivership . |
| 28 | The Chancellor 's Autumn Statement will be too late to help Elizabeth Smart herself — the fencing business her father began 30 years ago is now in receivership . |
| 29 | Depending on the circumstances of the case , a review at this stage would be too late to have any impact on a project . |
| 30 | Before the 1967 Act , the company acquiring the computer would have no remedy for this innocent misrepresentation , unless it was deemed to be a contractual term , as it would be too late to have the contract set aside . |