Example sentences of "[vb -s] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , New York is stuck with a tax base that looks too narrow to support the city 's budget in anything like its present form . |
| 2 | The khedda looks too flimsy to hold a herd of furious , newly rounded-up elephants but that is exactly what it is designed to do . |
| 3 | He knows it chiefly as a source of seasonal traffic jams about which Marjorie sometimes complains ( the University day begins too late and finishes too early to inconvenience Vic himself ) and of distractingly pretty girls about whose safety he worries , seeing them walking to and fro between their halls of residence and the Students ' Union in the evenings . |
| 4 | GROUNDWATER is a massive resource but it can not be found everywhere , and sometimes lies too deep to exploit economically . |
| 5 | ‘ Now we collect firewood before it gets too dark to see . |
| 6 | Nominal wages that will not fall allowing situations where the real wage gets too high to clear the market . |
| 7 | It takes too long to set up and the shutter speed is so slow . |
| 8 | It takes too long to set up and the shutter speed is slow . |
| 9 | Concrete absorbs next to no water , and soft mortar takes too long to stiffen before it can be smoothed off and marked with a light cross-hatch key . |
| 10 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 11 | it takes too long to follow a human birth cohort through life — the information is of little interest at the end of such an exercise |
| 12 | Traditionally some vendors oppose asset sales on the basis that it takes too long to obtain the landlord 's consent and the long delay between exchange and completion causes uncertainty for the business . |
| 13 | There is evidence of the arrival of migrants at various stages in Crete 's prehistory , but it seems too facile to attribute each change in the island 's culture to the arrival of a new group of immigrants . |
| 14 | But cumulative selection can not work unless there is some minimal machinery of replication and replicator power , and the only machinery of replication that we know seems too complicated to have come into existence by means of anything less than many generations of cumulative selection ! |
| 15 | But the reason why Dworkin 's rights thesis appears too narrow to generate a right of participation is because it too is firmly grounded in a gesellschaft model of law and society in which virtually the only interests which are considered capable of generating rights in the strong sense are those appropriate for abstract individuals pursuing their own private interests . |
| 16 | She demonstrates her first admission of remorse and indicates she feels too guilty to enjoy her new position as queen . |
| 17 | It is unnerving to want to smile at the interviewer only to discover that your face has set and feels too stiff to move . |
| 18 | Tearaway : Tim Horan , who scored twice in the Second Test , proves too hot to hold — even for a tackler of Scott Hastings ' calibre |
| 19 | One is to stay together and live ‘ to make each other miserable , a habit which sometimes becomes too strong to break . ’ |
| 20 | As the winter continues it becomes too cold to work and a day off is in order . |
| 21 | It needs to be used as soon as it is made , however , as it quickly becomes too tough to handle and shape . |
| 22 | As the mixture becomes too stiff to stir , turn it out onto a surface dusted with cornflour or icing sugar and knead in the remaining icing sugar . |
| 23 | The danger with accepting that cats have a hundred different sounds is that the whole subject becomes too complicated to make much sense . |
| 24 | PUPILS at a private boarding school are considering employing their own workers as their ‘ mini-enterprise ’ becomes too large to handle . |
| 25 | If the mixture becomes too soft to handle , chill again before completing the rolling . |
| 26 | Stop flying before it becomes too windy to move or fly the glider . |
| 27 | With a decrease in temperature , the flow of a polymer melt becomes increasingly sluggish as the chain motion becomes too slow to effect complete untangling of the polymer coils . |
| 28 | Left sections ( streptocarpus , sansevieria ) : leaves too large to lay on the surface are divided laterally into sections , inserting the lower cut edge ( nearest the leaf base ) into the compost , with or without the use of rooting powder . |