Example sentences of "[noun] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Images that fill the corridor , packed with images too small to see with the naked eye . |
| 2 | But his eye is too keen and his feel for the different histories of these nations too strong to slip into one-answer explanations . |
| 3 | I m too big to go to ground , " he wailed gratefully , watching Andrew failing by any contortion to cram his shoulders into the mouth of the culvert . |
| 4 | To explain , requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained , and such terms can not always be found ; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known , and evident without Proof , so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition . |
| 5 | Hatfield 's view was that ‘ the wit is too brittle and the inventiveness too superficial to make more than an ephemeral appeal ’ even though he had been enthusiastic when he first saw it . |
| 6 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 7 | Although the passengers in the ‘ sardine box railway ’ had to sit facing each other on long benches in light too dim to read a newspaper , they could breathe . |
| 8 | Call , a loud ringing ‘ kata , kata ’ , frequently uttered in flight , can be very puzzling when light too bright to see birds overhead . |
| 9 | In fact , expertise in a whole range of subjects too numerous to mention . |
| 10 | Such an outcome would require continued development , which in terms of the return on the capital investment would either mean an instrument too expensive to use or the absence of a treatment modality . |
| 11 | This man ordered an all-chrome finished Steinberger guitar — including the fingerboard — and then found that stage lighting rendered the instrument too dazzling to use . |
| 12 | One reason is that owners are often stronger than intruders , which are animals too weak to have been able to set up a territory . |
| 13 | There is no doubt that the outer few tens of metres of the maria are fine dust , but this could be the result of many impacts too small to leave visible craters and of dust from large impacts elsewhere . |
| 14 | But today with his mind too preoccupied to work he seemed quite unable to keep his hands off it . |
| 15 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 16 | Feeling slightly vexed I decided that all those readers too lazy to write in will be receiving personal visits , so I can introduce them to my favourite topic : ‘ Pain , and how ( and where ! ) to inflict it ’ . |
| 17 | Queensland too hot to handle |
| 18 | Spring snow , as you might imagine , occurs late in the season when the offpiste is covered with a fall of snow too heavy to ski as powder , which remaining untracked , freezes into a firm — but not rock solid ( because it has not been compressed by skiers ) — cover . |
| 19 | But Norwich , now a 10-1 title shot after Monday 's derby defeat by Ipswich , have a history of being a ‘ selling club ’ and may find such an instant and profitable reward on their £800,000 investment too good to resist . |
| 20 | Gould 's time was too precious and his ambition too overriding to allow him a thought for artistic temperament . |
| 21 | He threw out no sounding parties too weak to guarantee their own safety , and he lost none of them . |
| 22 | Then there were the mass flights from the industrial cities of European Russia after 1917 , besides many regional movements too numerous to mention . |
| 23 | Only a loneliness too painful to bear . |
| 24 | The violence in him was suddenly frightening , yet it touched her inside , caught her up in a tangle of emotions too powerful to analyse . |
| 25 | She felt a physical longing too strong to resist , she breathed fast and grew a bit light-headed : she could smell the soft , milky smell of David 's body and the warm wool odour of his sweater ; she felt a frenzied yearning . |
| 26 | ( d ) a pool of equipment too expensive to duplicate , e.g. 16 mm film projectors . |
| 27 | There is no point in developing the demands of civilization to the point where the majority of people find the tensions too great to bear and react , through regression , to the primal horde . |
| 28 | We are on a shore of white sand too hot to stand still for a moment , great breakers surf and trip to swathes of foam as we dart into the solid black and lovely shade . |
| 29 | For a child too young to make an informed request the information may be disclosed to a parent on his behalf . |
| 30 | Scotland too slow to pick up run rate From Harry Pincott , Cape Town |