Example sentences of "too [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 As long ago as 1978 , the Scottish Hospital Advisory Service reported from observation visits to long-stay hospitals throughout Scotland that even when adjustable beds were provided , they were frequently found at a height too high for the patients ' safety and unfortunately , this is often still true .
2 I was too old for the children 's ward so I was in with men .
3 It would have been all too easy for the residents ' views to weigh lightly compared to the supposedly more objective professional assessments but , avoiding this pitfall , the author looked for ways of tapping the experiences of the residents themselves and sought to complement these with staff assessments of social and psychiatric functioning .
4 Or they put a sling round them or made a canvass and two supports on the side of it and the sling to be too hard on the cattle 's sides .
5 Perhaps this was too sinister for the judges ' tastes ?
6 DERBY striker Tommy Johnson was n't too worried after the Rams ' run of seven successive away wins ended at Brentford .
7 He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money .
8 Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) "
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