Example sentences of "too [adj] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The girl must be busy ’ , ‘ the maintenance course she had been on was probably gruelling ’ , or ‘ she was still too upset to put pen to paper ’ . |
| 2 | Too frail to give evidence in court , she described the attack in a statement . |
| 3 | Dr Granville wrote : ‘ July is much too early to see Harrogate to advantage . |
| 4 | It 's often too dangerous to have tantrums at school . |
| 5 | It is all too easy to attribute changes in mood to drug therapy when in fact they have been the result of removing the patient from a stressful environment and providing him with support . |
| 6 | Action : The filename supplied is too long to allow entry into LIFESPAN . |
| 7 | In a hurry to find me and too tired to pay attention to detail , he might give him a cursory glance and exclaim , relieved , " Ah , there you are . " |
| 8 | Ms Sachs said the Gorazde convoy left Belgrade too late to reach Rogatica by nightfall . |
| 9 | The FR.4 was too late to see service in World War Two , and of the 160 built , 120 were delivered to the FAA and forty to the Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service ( RNNAS ) . |
| 10 | In the words of others he springs into action as a political firebrand , marching into the coal-owners ' offices and demanding justice for their exploited work-force , only to be told that the coal seams were too meagre and the profit margin too small to provide improvements in safety standards . |
| 11 | Programme Analysis and Review was too slow and too cumbersome to inject reason into necessity . |
| 12 | The fuse at the input to the switching circuit , rated at 10A , provides some protection , but fuses even of the fast-blow sort sometimes prove too slow to prevent damage to semiconductor devices . |
| 13 | The woman ran to a friend in college and immediately went to the Police for help … she 's now too frightened to leave college at night . |