Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other companies a family owns a minority of shares , but still retains effective control because the smaller shareholders are too fragmented to defeat the voting power of the family concerned . |
| 2 | Some expenses may cause problems of allocation between accounting periods such as research and development expenditure … n general , the future benefits of most research projects are too uncertain to justify carrying the expenditure forward . |
| 3 | His fingers are too swollen to hold a pen . |
| 4 | Her political and union activities are too numerous to record . |
| 5 | The spring , he says , is a particularly perilous time in adder-land : as they emerge from hibernation , adders are too groggy to slip away from potential threats but their fangs are filled with several months ' worth of venom . |
| 6 | The scientists warn that the deposits of pyrites are too large to neutralize by liming . |
| 7 | ‘ RRP will be introduced slice by slice so we can learn as we go along ; the risks are too big to put it in all at once . |
| 8 | Although many of their fans are too young to realise , United have generally been seen as the town 's two-bit team , little more than camels in the eyes of the Dens Park faithful . |
| 9 | The Morans are too poor to afford cheap shoes . |
| 10 | This condition has been widely noted to have a distinct , seasonality of occurrence , appearing in greatest incidence in temperate areas during the warm summer months , and almost disappearing when the temperatures of autumn , winter and spring are too low to allow development of eggs to the infective stage . |
| 11 | Not least when the thin one says that this is an ‘ anti-politics ’ tune : ‘ Songs are too romantic to give across a political view , like . |
| 12 | A bus firm 's had to cancel services because its drivers are too ill to work … and Swindon Town have called off a reserve match because they 're down to just 6 fit players . |
| 13 | Most people who notice it at parties are too polite to ask what it is and why I am wearing it , but to the few who do I say ( because I find it embarrassing to explain ) that it is concerned with the story of the sinking of the Bismarck ; and then relish the look of puzzlement on their faces . |
| 14 | Personal computers are too fragile to cope with viruses and must be replaced with sophisticated systems which are resilient to viruses in the first place . |
| 15 | Sperms are too small to contain mitochondria , so mitochondria travel exclusively down the female line , and male bodies are dead ends as far as mitochondrial reproduction is concerned . |
| 16 | As you will have gathered the images are too big to put on floppy disks . |
| 17 | I find the Préludes disappointing , too brightly lit and stated rather than suggested : to take examples from Book 1 , the opening of ‘ Le vent dans la plaine ’ is not pp and surely not aussi légèrement que possible for this pianist , while the ‘ sounds and perfumes ’ of the next piece are too solid to float in the evening air . |
| 18 | Your race is not suited to it — you see , your lips are too big to pronounce it . ’ |
| 19 | Fast albedo feedbacks are too weak to change global temperature significantly without global mean radiative forcing . |
| 20 | THE rich world would love to forget Africa , but its miseries are too awful to ignore . |
| 21 | The Scots are too intelligent to fall for the propaganda then prevalent in London and other large English centres . |
| 22 | But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie . |
| 23 | Many women fear their voices are too small to carry . |
| 24 | We consider the latter to be suspect in any case , as the data are too scattered to form true isochrons . |
| 25 | With regard to acquittal rates in the magistrates ' courts , our data are too uncertain to draw firm conclusions as they are incomplete . |
| 26 | Obviously the unit they are hiding in can be affected , but the Fanatics are too crazed to realise what is going on . |
| 27 | ‘ Parents are too frightened to say no . |
| 28 | We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask . |
| 29 | The ways in which the caterer is affected by the law are too numerous to mention . |
| 30 | Where tools and equipment are too bulky to store or too expensive to buy for occasional use , the answer is to go to one of the many hire shops . |