Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember to slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways : if you do them in the usual way as rings they will be too curved to slide in easily . |
| 2 | It might be too early to say , but researchers from Lima 's Universidad del Pacifico say that the informals are amazingly responsible , and punctually keep up with the interest payments on their loans . |
| 3 | Obviously it may be too early to answer some of these questions fully , but the fact that I , in common with the majority of arts teachers working in secondary schools in this country , have been grappling with the very difficult process of assessing , marking and moderating the work of the first batch of pupils to take the GCSE examination will , I believe , give added force to some of the things I intend to say . |
| 4 | The duration of such responses would , however , be too great to allow the rapid succession of contractions needed to maintain the high frequency of the wing beat in many efficient flyers . |
| 5 | Commentators have argued that the movement from one level to the next would be too great to show teachers and children that learning is taking place ( McNicholas 1989 , Reason 1989 ) . |
| 6 | On low earnings the rebate payments will be too small to justify the personal pension plan charges . |
| 7 | Changing between the 0.10 gauge sets that you refer to should not cause any problems ; the first set has a heavy top and light bottom and vice versa for the other , and the difference in tension and playability would probably be too small to notice . |
| 8 | Generally , any mechanism that relies on reactions between specific pairs of medium-sized clusters will be flawed , because their specific presence in the plasma will be too small to account for the high yield of the experiments . |
| 9 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 11 | In this way your gift to ACET will qualify for Gift Aid relief even though the monthly payments would be too small to do so . |
| 12 | The ultimate holding company function will highlight related companies within groups and identify companies which , while they appear to be too small to do the deal , may be able to do so with the support of their holding company . |
| 13 | What this study wo n't do is to tell us much about specific industries such as our own because the numbers involved will almost certainly be too small to pinpoint effects so precisely . |
| 14 | But Malcolm Gourlay , BRINDEX 's chairman , said most new fields would be too small to benefit and would not be developed because of the adverse impact of withdrawing PRT relief on the cost of exploration wells . |
| 15 | The gene pool of the resulting subgroups would be too small to ensure the viability of the population . |
| 16 | ‘ Their movements can be too small to measure . |
| 17 | First , interferon gene deletions have previously been associated with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and it would , therefore , not be too surprising to find that abnormalities of interferon regulation or of the interferon signalling pathway were tumorigenic . |
| 18 | They were far enough from the city for the sounds of insurrection to be too faint to disturb anyone but the few scrawny goats which wandered listlessly around their enclosures . |
| 19 | Faster prosecutions would help a bit ; but even if current delays were halved , they would still be too long to justify preventive detention . |
| 20 | The list of all the voluntary agencies concerned directly or indirectly with family welfare would be too long to provide here . |
| 21 | He seemed to her to be too splendid to wash dishes ; even Glyn would not think of it , and Alain seemed to her to be a figure of towering importance , the most masculine man she had ever seen . |
| 22 | Although there is a school of thought that , if the vendor is besieged with questions , its management will be too occupied to negotiate with anyone other than the purchaser , it is important to consider who is operating the business if the full time attention of senior management is taken up with demands for information . |
| 23 | It would be too easy to let ourselves get carried away , do something we might regret later . ’ |
| 24 | It would be too easy to say ‘ Yes , and not before time either . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If he turns out to be a feeder for the kidnappers , ’ explained the Captain , ‘ he 'd be too easy to replace if we showed any interest in him . ’ |
| 26 | It would be too easy to put everything down to a typical case of hysteria , but what if there was something else , some underlying cause ? |
| 27 | And while it may be too easy to interpret some of the recent decisions on moorland ploughing in terms of political influences and the ideologies and interests that now dominate the parks , inevitably they raise doubts as to the adequacy of the testing of the issues involved . |
| 28 | It 's better that you should n't be too easy to find . ’ |
| 29 | It may be too simple to suppose that scientifically originated concepts are some son of cuckoo in the nest of traditional common sense . |
| 30 | It would be too simple to say that I was always cold and hungry , as I appeared to be , at this latter stage of the disease . |