Example sentences of "it be too [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Rachel and Maggie , it 's too good a chance to miss . |
| 2 | It 's too nice a day to talk , but Clint , Craig and I talk anyway , buzzing on the warmth of it all . |
| 3 | It 's too poor a soil . " |
| 4 | ‘ It 's too high a price to pay for the moon , ’ Nan had said . |
| 5 | ‘ But it 's too high a price . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's too beautiful a day for you to go on Mr Gajduseking me the whole while , ’ he cut her off in easy fashion . |
| 7 | Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's asking too much , it 's too big a step . |
| 9 | ‘ Do they think it 's too big a risk ? ’ |
| 10 | It 's too tough a race , ’ he revealed . |
| 11 | It 's too valuable a book to be left lyin' around . ’ |
| 12 | It is too cautious a view , and the evidence is clear from many studies that the earlier the individual is seen the more likely he is to end up with a patent vessel following thrombolysis . |
| 13 | It is too simple a matter to damage those rare few who are too brave , too scornful and too trusting to put on armour . |
| 14 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 15 | In some cases , and especially where the witness has no interest in the outcome of the case , the lost opportunity to assess demeanour is of no great significance ; in others it is too great a price to pay . |
| 16 | It is too great a challenge to their image of themselves as healers . |
| 17 | It is too important a game to play anyone who is not fit . ’ |
| 18 | But Coun Dr Ann Macleod said : ‘ I think it is too high a price to pay because the housing in the north-east corner will affect far more people than the loss of the National Gallery . ’ |
| 19 | It is too incredible a story to disbelieve . |
| 20 | It is too poignant a metaphor of national uncertainty and demoralisation if that gorgeous landmark in Kensington Gardens remains under scaffolding , neither to be demolished , nor yet to be repaired . |
| 21 | It is doubtful whether ever again the one-man universal classification schemes will make any sense ; it is too big a task . |
| 22 | For children , it is too short a time during which they have to build their bodies to the strength and size of an adult and learn all the skills they will need to survive without help . |
| 23 | Perhaps it was too small a bed because it had to hold the ghosts of Mo Magill and Jenny Maxim 's dead wife as well . |
| 24 | Can I ask is it because it was too small a group , or is it because no one can make up their mind where they belong ? |
| 25 | It was too easy a trick to miss . |
| 26 | It was too nice a day to be burying a young life . |
| 27 | For them it was too good a chance to miss . |
| 28 | It was too good a job to risk doing otherwise , and besides , the cameras were always there , so she had to . |
| 29 | It was too good a place to miss out on . |
| 30 | After several years as a regular contributor and recipient of the irascible Mahor 's voluminous correspondence , he was due to succeed as editor of Cricket Quarterly in 1970 , and was foiled by a change of mind : ‘ he decided that it was too personal a project , and he could n't let anyone else take it on , ’ he remembers . |