Example sentences of "[is] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | From a plan , lately begun by another person who wished to assist Mr. Green , he hopes he shall not be injured in the public opinion , as the difference between a plan made from an actual survey , with accurate instruments , and conducted upon principles true in theory ( which will be explained to every scientific enquirer ) and one made by striding , is too palpable to escape observations . ’ |
2 | We are forced to conclude that our present knowledge is too limited to cope with these complexities . |
3 | He is too rich to trust . |
4 | Action : The filename supplied is too long to allow entry into LIFESPAN . |
5 | B/G electronics , Nav-sat , VHF , etc. etc. the list is too long to mention . |
6 | If that car is too long to go in that garage , try to find a smaller one . |
7 | Follow the workshop manual as the procedure is too long to explain here . |
8 | The poem is too long to quote in its entirety here , but the opening lines should provide a suitable contrast with " The retreate " : Here , a particular incident in the past is being recalled ; so the bulk of the poem has a content time which is separate from the coding time . |
9 | There were no transient UOS relaxations in the three episodes of acidification of the oesophagus without associated common cavity episodes , but this sample is too small to allow for any firm conclusions . |
10 | The MP said the fleet is too small to defend Britain 's sea lanes in war . |
11 | This procedure might be criticized on the grounds that the sample is too small to justify it . |
12 | This was not just a ‘ one-off ’ mistake as I have two examples , both half fare , and in case the type is too small to see , they are the two bottom examples of the single tickets illustrated . |
13 | The weapons bay is too small to accommodate much of a bomb : it is designed to take the AMRAAM , a new air-to-air missile that uses its own radar to hunt down and destroy enemy aircraft . |
14 | On the other hand , a sack which is too small to carry what you need will be a nuisance , and uncomfortable to wear if crammed full . |
15 | In the first place the shrinking produced by the Earth is too small to notice . |
16 | There were three babies with chronic lung disease in the random group and none in the regulated group , but the total in the study is too small to say if either figure is different from the expected incidence of about 10% in this population of babies . |
17 | If the tax base is too small to support the welfare burden , there is not enough money to provide for the demand of welfare services and people have to do without . |
18 | So far the information available is too small to draw any conclusions , but the correlations from the papers in this volume are suggestive and deserve further investigation on a comparative basis . |
19 | Teacher Gender : The sample of teachers in this study , two male and two female , is too small to draw conclusions about how the gender of the teacher affects bias in transactions with pupils . |
20 | There were no obvious differences in recurrence rates as a function of ursodeoxycholic acid dose but with only five patients taking >200 mg/day , the number is too small to draw valid conclusions . |
21 | Sceptics in the City think that Mr Byatt 's organisation — a staff of 100 based in Birmingham — is too small to deal with a huge and complicated industry . |
22 | It is too small to appeal to many so it would probably make only £10 at auction . |
23 | Shuttle fleet is too small to do the job |
24 | Its existing church , the 101year-old St Cecilia 's , on the junction of Chambers Lane and Mold Road , is too small to cope with a growing congregation and can not be extended . |
25 | But the council say the school , which has only one full-time teacher , is too small to cope with the new national curriculum . |
26 | The seasonality of advertising is the first consideration , either because the budget is too small to spread over a full year , or because even a very large budget could be weighted towards certain times of year . |
27 | Negligent conduct will thus frequently engender no market response , not simply because the loss that results is too small to register , given market insensitivity , but because its effects are masked by above-average returns from other , successful , projects . |
28 | This preference is said to arise ‘ because the [ zeolite ] cage is too small to admit larger ions and too large to bind smaller ones strongly . ’ |
29 | While most reggae DJs rapidly rise in popularity only to sink within a year , Shabba 's following has swelled over the past four years to a point where the reggae market is too small to contain him — witness the shooting and tear gas panic last year at the Brixton Academy , or January 's trashing of Tower Records , London , during a personal appearance . |
30 | WHERE n IS A NUMBER LARGER THAN 2 , THERE ARE NO WHOLE NUMBERS x , y , z SUCH THAT , AND OF THIS I HAVE FOUND A MOST MARVELLOUS PROOF , BUT THIS MARGIN IS TOO SMALL TO CONTAIN IT . |