Example sentences of "too [adj] and [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Old Curiosity Shop it is high summer , and Dickens himself does not mention a fire , but it is featured by one of his illustrators , within a chimneypiece much too solid and grand for a labourer 's ‘ hut ’ ( Fig. 39 ) . |
| 2 | Above Lechlade , nearer Inglesham , the River Thames becomes too narrow and shallow for a rowing boat to navigate . |
| 3 | But she was too warm and lazy for a proper argument . |
| 4 | In many respects a superb centre , even if it was poorly served by public transport and lacked the atmosphere of the Casa de Campo , the new complex would have been too large and expensive for a leaner fair with a thinner list of participating galleries . |
| 5 | Both Hayman 's suggestions were too loose and half-baked for a man of his devious cunning to consider seriously for a moment . |
| 6 | Dr. Kerr had said that they had not done so — but he was ‘ too wordy and declamatory for a witness ’ . |