Example sentences of "too [adj] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1740s the Moghul central government had grown too weak to impose peace on Europeans , in the 1750s the British and the French took an important role in struggles among Indians , and by 1763 the British had made themselves rulers of one of the most important regions of India , though they had not yet worked out a legal form to express the new reality in India . |
| 2 | This was surely an argument for getting involved in Boiotia , because it was too weak to resist effectively , rather than an argument for leaving Boiotia alone , because it was too weak to make trouble for Athens . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Too frail to give evidence in court , she described the attack in a statement . |
| 5 | This condition has been widely noted to have a distinct , seasonality of occurrence , appearing in greatest incidence in temperate areas during the warm summer months , and almost disappearing when the temperatures of autumn , winter and spring are too low to allow development of eggs to the infective stage . |
| 6 | Dr Granville wrote : ‘ July is much too early to see Harrogate to advantage . |
| 7 | A Foreign Office spokesman said it was too early to consider sanctions against North Korea but added that Britain would consider what steps to take with other signatory states . |
| 8 | It 's often too dangerous to have tantrums at school . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 'd been working too hard to spend time with women , and the courting of his wife had been very proper and unexciting . |
| 11 | On the other hand , potential new beneficiaries were all too glad to accept beneficia like St-Josse . |
| 12 | Action : The filename supplied is too long to allow entry into LIFESPAN . |
| 13 | 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 . " |
| 14 | However , they are probably too infrequent to provide hearers with cues to ethnicity . |
| 15 | Beyond the precincts of my own family , I am far too inhibited to have rows with people . |
| 16 | ‘ We have a very demanding crowd but I hope people feel that it is money well spent , ’ added Brady , who feels that the recent events have been too frantic to risk Slater against Dundee United today . |
| 17 | Ms Sachs said the Gorazde convoy left Belgrade too late to reach Rogatica by nightfall . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | There are some who never come to our House of Prayer for various reasons — prayer is not important in their lives , work or social life is more important , people who feel that they can go it alone with no need for God , others who feel that life is too full to have time for God , some who think that religion is a waste of time , and there are people , both young and old , who are intimidated by their friends . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Programme Analysis and Review was too slow and too cumbersome to inject reason into necessity . |
| 22 | Thorns Gill is too precious to suffer damage by boots racing against the clock . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is all too common to find schools without stores , classrooms without cupboards , books without covers and a quite alarming rate of materials loss in schools often bearing little relationship to the official ‘ life expectancy ’ of materials on which the cost of replacements are calculated . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |