Example sentences of "[verb] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has come too late to preserve the Snake River salmon in the wild , the ruling could save other salmon species in the same river system , and have far-reaching consequences for the agricultural and industrial economy of the Pacific Northwest . |
| 2 | It may have come too late to save your husband , but I beg of you , Karen , spare the life of our unborn baby ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I fear we 've come too late to save Doctor Jekyll , and too late to punish his murderer too . |
| 4 | Bingham 's men had reigned in the rain ; what a pity the deluge of good results had come too late to save the harvest . |
| 5 | But recognition has probably come too late to influence Mr Savimbi . |
| 6 | Ireland 's defeat of England may have come too late to influence the marginal selections but it certainly highlighted the shortcomings of some of the English players who were subsequently selected . |
| 7 | Despite OSF 's attempt to harmonise some of the products based upon its technology , it has come too late to net some of the larger fish . |
| 8 | In short , New York is stuck with a tax base that looks too narrow to support the city 's budget in anything like its present form . |
| 9 | The khedda looks too flimsy to hold a herd of furious , newly rounded-up elephants but that is exactly what it is designed to do . |
| 10 | In the fourth quarter of 1992 , the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.7% , which gave a roseate glow to Bill Clinton 's first few weeks in office but always looked too good to last . |
| 11 | Jonadab had followed at a more leisurely pace , not wishing to appear too eager to hear Annie 's news . |
| 12 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 13 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 14 | In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up , and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered , he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire , so that the wage level ‘ must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself . |
| 15 | The young man , with no means of meeting the acceptance when it came due , took fright and told the whole story to J.W. who told his father who , on the advice of his solicitor , consented to pay back the borrowed £150 with interest at five per cent per annum , and to return the trumpery jewellery which luckily his son had considered too worthless to sell . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh dear , you and your girlfriends … well , perhaps Tory could come too ? ’ she looked enquiringly at Marie , who admitted that Victoria had been considered too young to ride by her parents . |
| 17 | The risks of establishing an expensive precedent were considered too great to countenance . |
| 18 | An unofficial BR source told NME that ‘ The train is usually so full that it was considered too dangerous to run it this year . ’ |
| 19 | Like the Jaguar and lightning jets , they 're being phased out of the RAF because they 're considered too expensive to service . |
| 20 | Luke would know things about these places that the guide-books considered too unimportant to print ; he would bring the ancient stones to life — as he had in Bruges . |
| 21 | Hill-farmers in the north of the country , or the famous millionaire shepherds near Sibiu , had been considered too poor to collectivize forty years earlier , and so had been left to themselves , at least as much as anyone was in the Socialist Republic of Romania . |
| 22 | So lowly , indeed , was the job that it was long considered too insignificant to warrant a credit on the programme . |
| 23 | If there are disadvantages to higher levels of reliance on bank loans , they are clearly counterbalanced for those large firms that are considered too important to fail . |
| 24 | Although such figures might create public alarm , the main reason given for non-reporting was because the offence was considered too trivial to waste police time ( 38 per cent of reasons given ) , or that the police could do nothing about it ( 16 per cent ) . |
| 25 | It is this knowledge , coupled with the fear of being considered too unfit to undergo such a traumatic operation , that makes open heart surgery such an ordeal , say members . |
| 26 | I fear if I do n't make an effort soon I 'll be considered too old to adopt , but if you think I have no chance at all , I wo n't bother risking disappointment . |
| 27 | ‘ The guilt was becoming too great to bear , ’ she has confessed . |
| 28 | First , the strain of maintaining Martin Luther King 's advice to " turn the other cheek " was becoming too great to bear in the face of continued attacks and insults . |
| 29 | If you plan to stay where you are , the likelihood is that at some point you will want to make some changes or improvements : install central heating , insulate the loft , modernise the kitchen or perhaps convert part of the house to a granny flat for an elderly parent who is becoming too frail to live alone . |
| 30 | In his traditional Christmas sermon at Canterbury Cathedral , Dr George Carey said people were becoming too ready to knock established authority . |