Example sentences of "[been] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There his family , like all those in the village , had been too poor to eat anything but black bread , and so bagels , baked with expensive white flour , were the rarest of luxuries . |
| 2 | It 's been too easy to stick a label on us in the past which says volume car maker . |
| 3 | George decided to plunge ; he had already given away too much if Mr Nightingale himself was one of the List , but George did n't think he was , simply because he had been too easy to find . |
| 4 | The drums had been too loud to hear the preliminary ripping , so when the tree suddenly crashed to the ground , no one moved . |
| 5 | It was as well that I was unable to visit the Aran Isles , for if they had changed since the 1930s my disappointment might have been too great to bear . |
| 6 | Content with humiliation , satisfied with disappointment , I had been too selfish to reach out . |
| 7 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 8 | But they 'd have been too sloshed to notice . |
| 9 | Exotic animals would probably have been rarities in the British arenae and even then used only for exhibition , as they would presumably have been too expensive to have suffered damage . |
| 10 | She had been too proud to announce her fatigue and growing hunger . |
| 11 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 12 | As the news of the quarrel between the Old King 's sons spread , those who had been defeated last year took fresh courage , while others like Geoffrey of Lusignan , who had previously been too cautious to join the revolt , now decided that their moment had come . |
| 13 | The brandy , which they had been too polite to refuse , had made them drunk in a very short time , as they were not used to drinking anything stronger than beer . |
| 14 | ‘ It would have been too dangerous to continue , ’ said Mr Mackintosh . |
| 15 | I decided that there might well be a few odd cancer cells lurking about that my immune system had n't spotted or had been too demoralized to deal with — and anyway , was n't I , like everyone else , making thousands of cancer cells every day ? |
| 16 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 17 | He had visited the studio on and off through his time with Vanessa — he 'd even met Martine there on two occasions when her husband had cancelled a Luxembourg trip and she 'd been too heated to miss a liaison — but it was charmless and cheerless , and he 'd returned happily to the house in Wimpole Mews . |
| 18 | ‘ We have a very demanding crowd but I hope people feel that it is money well spent , ’ added Brady , who feels that the recent events have been too frantic to risk Slater against Dundee United today . |
| 19 | They make three main criticisms : Regional policy has been too weak to counteract the tendency of large capitalist enterprises to move where it is most profitable from the immediate point of view and irrespective of social consequences on the local community . |
| 20 | Now , of course , she knew her mother had been too vain to acknowledge a daughter whose age would be an indication of her own . |
| 21 | It does not work because the emotion and atmosphere in the rest of the play have been too slight to support it . |
| 22 | And the descriptions of the two men have been too varied to give much help to detectives . |
| 23 | Everything you need to know but have been too bashful to ask |
| 24 | If only Jonathan had been around she might never have come to France , she might have stayed in London to explain it all to him , but he was away on business for a week , and the need to escape had been too powerful to resist . |
| 25 | In other interviews celebrating his seventieth birthday , he made similar confessions about his private experience — confessions which , in the past , he would have been too defensive to make . |
| 26 | In the event , it all happened so fast that even had Doyle slipped into the garage after Weaver , he would have been too late to prevent tragedy . |
| 27 | In most cases this has meant the use of such low-risk patients that the number of arrhythmic events has been too low to allow any valid conclusions . |
| 28 | It had that brittle crinkly texture born of much hairdressing , and was ginger , of a brightness to which nature has always been too shy to aspire . |
| 29 | If he had been a young , attractive gentleman , I would have been too shy to offer help , but as he was not handsome , and even quite rough , I felt I wanted to help him . |
| 30 | I did n't really know them — I 'd been too shy to make friends with them , although I was interested in their work — but it was the only place I could think of . |