Example sentences of "far too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , viewed objectively , the risk of death from a single punch is far too remote to enter into one 's reasonable contemplation . |
| 2 | William Charles , the eldest son , had only recently left town for good , off to join his cousins in London ; young Benjamin was too young to be playing at soldiers , and Charles the Cheesemonger himself was a bit too old and certainly far too unhealthy to offer his services as a volunteer . |
| 3 | At the same time I could hear someone tapping frantically on the glass door of the kiosk , someone far too anxious to clamber in with me . |
| 4 | I also considered that big bream were far too shy to tolerate the presence of a punt , with all the inevitable disturbance that punts cause , so relatively close to the swim . |
| 5 | She did actually , but was far too shy to tell them , even in all-female company . |
| 6 | I went to bed , but my mind was far too occupied to sleep . |
| 7 | You 're far too young to smoke ! |
| 8 | You 're far too young to smoke ! |
| 9 | You 're far too young to smoke ! |
| 10 | True , Roger 's children were all in the king 's wardship , the boys far too young to cause trouble , and in reliable hands even if they should try , or others should try on their behalf . |
| 11 | But I was still far too young to venture out in the world ; it was unheard of even for an older girl to leave her home and family and become independent . |
| 12 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 13 | We were only children when we left , after all , bundled on a train with a few provisions under cover of darkness , far too young to understand the forces that were shaping war and persecution . |
| 14 | What these children face is a kind of colonial experience which they are far too young to fight against . |
| 15 | ‘ No one said to him , ‘ Wolfgang — that was his name , Wolfgang — you 're far too young to have music published , ’ ’ said Michael . |
| 16 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 17 | But the man , looking to Morse far too young to have graduated with any glory from a landscape-gardening apprenticeship , shook his head dubiously . |
| 18 | And I justified a liaison by telling myself that Simon was far too young to get tied down and that , by taking you off his hands , I 'd be doing him a favour , ’ he said , his tone dry . |
| 19 | But the firms themselves say it 's far too early to assess the impact on jobs … there could even be MORE work rather than LESS . |
| 20 | I think it 's far too early to give up the term feminist . |
| 21 | That was early , seriously early ; far too early to go home . |
| 22 | She was far too early to go to the office , it was a waste of time to go home and she could think of nothing to do . |
| 23 | Donald Mackay , a former junior minister at the Scottish Office , who was secretary of the Wheatley Commission which planned the 1975 council reforms , said it was far too early to undertake another reorganisation . |
| 24 | Educational technology is a theory and a set of hypotheses ; it is a habit of mind , and a readily applicable methodology ; it is far too early to claim for it that it has a large body of accepted practice . |
| 25 | It is far too early to say whether this produces the right result ; only time and history will show . |
| 26 | All the same , it is far too early to say whether it is the vintage of the century or even of the decade . |
| 27 | DEW spokeswoman Maggie Bosanquet added : ‘ It is far too early to let this go ahead it could destroy the pond . |
| 28 | Rational , economic analysis is far too static to capture this dynamic ; governments are left to choose their policies on political grounds . |
| 29 | She knew she would regret it later , but the urge to get one up on him just once was far too strong to resist . |
| 30 | The report was welcomed by the authorities at the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness , who said it was consistent with their view that radioactive emissions were far too low to cause any problems . |