Example sentences of "and too [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PROGRAMMES on development frequently suffer from overkill , being too long and too much for the well-intentioned , but reluctant to slay with the subject and not turn to something less troubling to the conscience . |
| 2 | It is not wise to write , as some have done , of an expanding middle-class market for an ever-widening range of manufactured goods , for " middle-class " is a nineteenth-century usage and too restrictive for the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | That night , just seven prison officers were coping with seven hundred and fifty inmates , many violent street gang criminals , involved with drugs and too dangerous for a low security jail . |
| 4 | Alfred Molina 's Shannon comes over as an assemblage of mannerisms rather than a man whose behaviour arises from dissipation and anguish ; Frances Barber is too young , too wiry and too busy for the over-ripe Maxine ; Robin Bailey , though he believably slips in and out of awareness , is too sturdy for the ancient poet , and he sounds and gestures just like colonel Hall on Sergeant Bilko . |
| 5 | The ideas are too large and too all-embracing for the finite mind to absorb them . |
| 6 | In the writings and arguments of ‘ experts ’ these problems are frequently represented as technical ones , and too specialised for the ordinary person to grasp . |