Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too weak to bargain over the State 's impositions , the townsmen could do no more than try to spread the burden as thinly as possible . |
| 2 | erm but ea she would n't bring him over to the phone , she said oh he 's too weak to come to the phone . |
| 3 | I find the Préludes disappointing , too brightly lit and stated rather than suggested : to take examples from Book 1 , the opening of ‘ Le vent dans la plaine ’ is not pp and surely not aussi légèrement que possible for this pianist , while the ‘ sounds and perfumes ’ of the next piece are too solid to float in the evening air . |
| 4 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 5 | Evidence of identification was given by the college chaplain who said he was too upset to talk about the death . |
| 6 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 7 | His brother Peter was too upset to come to the phone today but his secretary confirmed that Hunt , a father-of-two , died of a heart attack during the night . |
| 8 | The boys go to school every day — there 's a tiny place in Clyst St George — but they 're at large all the afternoon , and they 're getting a bit too obstreperous to have about the place . |
| 9 | The traditional Land-Rover is simply too agricultural to compete against the Japanese , especially as these vehicles spend more time ploughing round town than wading through mire . |
| 10 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 11 | Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations . |
| 12 | He had never been too sure as , technically , she was too old to come under the heading of pretty . |
| 13 | Some of the original Brats have become a little too old to run with the Pack . |
| 14 | The features must have been too indistinct to program into the computer . |
| 15 | MILLIONS of worried Britons are too afraid to travel through the Channel tunnel , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 16 | Sir Kenneth 's rules were a bit daft in places and far too detailed to work without the risk of continual recourse to the courts . |
| 17 | He had hurt his right ankle and it was too painful to put to the ground . |
| 18 | The Communists were also able to take advantage of groups which had leaders only too willing to co-operate with the Party and to draw on its growing network of organizers and activists . |
| 19 | ( f ) the liquidity of the market in the target 's shares ( shareholders who have little prospect of realising their investment may be only too willing to sell to a bidder ) ; |
| 20 | A 13-year-old is too embarrassed to go into a toddler area because it 's babyish . |
| 21 | So I think we geologists should not be too bashful to theorise on the basis of purely geological evidence , and I can not avoid the conclusion that at least some of the enigmas I have been discussing may have an origin in the climate . |
| 22 | He said it was too early to talk about the number of jobs but the project would probably be less ambitious than the original scheme . |
| 23 | ‘ Technical and management committees are being formed , although it is still too early to talk about the detail of the programmes . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He said that Traoré and his wife had been arrested " at his palace at Koulouba " , that the former President was " very well " , but that it was too early to speak about a trial . |
| 26 | Then there was an unannounced shock of antique sound , a rapid arpeggio , far too real to come from a radio or record . |
| 27 | She did n't want to explain that she had been too nervous to go in the kitchen and cook it , too lily-livered to turn her back to the window as she lit the gas , too timorous to cause even the tiny sounds of roasting game . |
| 28 | This gas is much less common than oxygen and very much more reactive ( in fact , it is the most reactive of all the elements , probably too reactive to serve as the basis for any conceivable lifeform . |
| 29 | It is all too easy to lead to the conclusion that compliance with regulations is all that is required for safety , i.e. compliance ends up taking precedence over the wider considerations of risk management . |
| 30 | It 's too easy to fall into the trap of being negative . |