Example sentences of "[was/were] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anglers say the rainbows were too easy to catch . |
| 2 | The original requisition of ships was uncontested , although many towns protested that they were too poor to provide what was asked . |
| 3 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 5 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 6 | Studies of individual towns suggest that they were severely hit , that properties were deserted and that in some cases parishes had to be united , as the existing ones were too poor to maintain the services of the Church ( 77 , pp.286–8 ) . |
| 7 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |
| 8 | They were too shocked to talk … but the cards said it all . |
| 9 | Sharon 's parents were too shocked to talk about their daughter , but issued a statement through an uncle . |
| 10 | They were too shocked to make any comment at the family home today . |
| 11 | The news categories used by the 1947 Press Commission , which were followed for the 1975 analysis , were too general to show up many differences of detail , but are recorded in Table 6.6 . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you were too young to remember that , ’ Adam said uneasily . |
| 13 | Malc 's Mom held a small reception for us , doing the catering herself ( potted meat sandwiches with the crusts cut off ) and paid for a four-day honeymoon in Blackpool , where the landlady would sell us contraceptives — I was n't showing , and pride forced us to put on an act — but said we were too young to smoke and refused us cigarettes . |
| 14 | Luckily , the kids were too young to realise the danger . |
| 15 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |
| 16 | The illegitimate sons were too young to pose much of a threat during Charlemagne 's lifetime . |
| 17 | Mother and lots of other people would say we were too young to love truly , they would have us wait for our ‘ years of discretion ’ ; at what age one is supposed to be abnormally discreet I do not know , all I know is that I have not arrived there yet , and I hope I never will . |
| 18 | Do you think you were too young to talk about the th the emotional side |
| 19 | Now he was saying that although we were too young to talk of real love he hoped we would see each other alone and not always surrounded by friends . |
| 20 | " I thought you were too young to understand ! |
| 21 | Many at all levels of the movement , who were too young to have had experience of the First World War , were nevertheless affected by its indirect effects . |
| 22 | The boys were too young to buy the traditional drinks in the clubhouse afterwards . |
| 23 | ‘ You were too young to know . ’ |
| 24 | However , in 1930 a White Paper ruled against the project on the grounds that the technical feasibility and economic benefits were too uncertain to justify the heavy expenditure needed to defend a tunnel in time of war . |
| 25 | She felt that the slightest movement would snap his will , precipitating an explosion out of the swell of desire that was sweeping them both to the edge of a world they were too prudent to enter willingly . |
| 26 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 27 | The main staircase was just passable , but the upstairs rooms were too dangerous to enter , Rory said . |
| 28 | The results of these studies , however , were too variable to lead to the use of cholera toxin as a secretory model . |
| 29 | The men were too polite to accept them without being pressed a second and third time . |
| 30 | And so we had , but were too polite to comment on the truly striking resemblance . |