Example sentences of "[noun sg] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Call , a loud ringing ‘ kata , kata ’ , frequently uttered in flight , can be very puzzling when light too bright to see birds overhead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But today with his mind too preoccupied to work he seemed quite unable to keep his hands off it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gould 's time was too precious and his ambition too overriding to allow him a thought for artistic temperament . |
| 11 | Only a loneliness too painful to bear . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( d ) a pool of equipment too expensive to duplicate , e.g. 16 mm film projectors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For a child too young to make an informed request the information may be disclosed to a parent on his behalf . |
| 16 | In the frosty quiet he heard the sound of an engine too suave to belong to a resident , and peered over the parapet to see the men getting out of the car below . |
| 17 | When the enemy formation scattered he took a second too long to pick out an opponent , and one of the Germans slid under his tail . |
| 18 | At the end of a caution period ( ie , a period of brief interruption in the race ) , Mr Mansell was a fraction of a second too slow to respond to the green flag restart . |
| 19 | Boy too young to face charges |
| 20 | feeling complete , replete , like a cat sleeping in the sun has all four paws buried under its furred belly , sun too hot to move , tail wrapped over its sleeping nose , I went back to our bed to curl up next to where you had been . |
| 21 | You can apply the oil to the buttocks if you like , but if you find vigorous massage too awkward to carry out here , there is no need to worry . |
| 22 | Reimbursement of additional hotel and travelling expenses necessarily incurred up to a maximum of £300 to reach the booked destination in the event of the Insured Person arriving at the U.K. departure point too late to commence the booked holiday as a result of the failure of public transport services or due to an accident or mechanical failure involving the motor vehicle in which the Insured Person is travelling . |
| 23 | Even so , it is straining credulity too far to conclude that the debtor has an arguable case . |
| 24 | But it would be straining credulity too far to expect that everything will be absorbed . |
| 25 | Cusick 's original construction drawing had the midriff too narrow to allow the skirt flats to meet smoothly and so the midriff was widened . |
| 26 | They do not have black balls at the New Club , but they have even more members in the legal profession than Muirfield ; and word reached me that the election committee had received objections to my membership too strong to ignore . |
| 27 | Now on the management charge which is what I want to ask you about , cos that 's what you 've said in the brochure , on the management charge , did you deliberately set the management charge too low to hook the punters ? |
| 28 | A and numbers in our , a s in a stage group too small to say definitely that we can pick out those T two tumours badly or well on the vascular count . |
| 29 | But was her imagination too hard to work ? |
| 30 | He says he 's been in the business too long to predict the future . |