Example sentences of "be too [adj] [prep] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ELECTION results have confirmed what most people already suspected — that the differences between the political parties and their supporters may be too great to be resolved in another round of talks , however well-meaning . |
| 2 | More than one researcher abandoned the field with the argument that if the biochemical changes really ‘ coded for ’ memory in the brain then they would be too small to be measured , and if they were large enough to be measured then they probably were n't anything to do with memory . |
| 3 | Group 2 's justification for this was echoed unanimously : ( c ) and ( g ) were felt to be too repetitive to be placed side by side . |
| 4 | See Davies v Davies ( 1887 ) 36 Ch D 359 where a covenant which sought to restrain trade " so far as the law allows " was found to be too uncertain to be enforced . |
| 5 | For some , the crime may even pay : thus in the Goodrich disc-brake scandal of the late 1960s , when the company attempted to foist a defective brake-disc system on to a customer who happened to be too clever to be deceived , two of the main executives involved were later promoted ( Vandivier 1972 : 33 ) . |
| 6 | There will be some differences , but they may be too slight to be noticed by the customers , who would normally see only one piece of each item in any case . |
| 7 | And never be too proud to be seen riding in a little buggy like this , instead of a limousine . |
| 8 | The remedies of the homoeopathic materia medica have not , as has happened to their orthodox counterparts , had to be abandoned , as one after another they have lost their efficacy or have been shown to be too toxic to be used safely . |
| 9 | Omnibus editions of novels tend to be too heavy to be read with comfort . |
| 10 | The booklet would be too big to be given away , but could be available in tourist offices etc for a reasonable price . |
| 11 | Whereas in the examples taken from scenes one and three , Anderson fulfils the Interest Principle by merely 'saying what is unpredictable and hence interesting " ( Leech 1983 : 146 ) , in later scenes he uses irony to implicate propositions which might be too face-threatening to be made directly or ironic understatement to be deliberately impolite . |
| 12 | But with cats it seems to be too common to be explained in this way . |
| 13 | The latter , again , might be too crude to be included ; even at Chedworth the workmanship is inferior to that of the elaborate mosaic of room 5 , ( pi . |
| 14 | Ms Gibson was taken to Hammersmith police station and was said to be too distraught to be interviewed , a CID spokesman said . |