Example sentences of "[be] too [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 're too fast asleep to reply to Feeny . |
| 2 | ‘ Go on , Leif , ’ he growled ‘ I 'm too bloody cold to answer it . ’ |
| 3 | We rule out this second way in which a true belief may be too luckily true to count as knowledge by adding a fourth clause to the initial three : |
| 4 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 5 | They had no personal loyalty to him and were too strongly unionised to accept his way of working . |
| 6 | Now I had watched the Villa v scum match on Monday with my united mate and did n't pass too many comments ( they were too bloody good to pass comment on ) when he heard that Leeds had lost again my life was hell . |
| 7 | I take it that they were too realistically magical to exist in the world as we know it . |
| 8 | But he held such a plurality of rich benefices already ( reckoned at £750–£900 p.a. ) that , with his £100 salary on top , only certain bishoprics were worth considering : by chance , next to none of these fell vacant in his time and those that did were too politically important to fall to him . |
| 9 | Most clients were too severely demented to have a very full understanding of who the support worker was ; and many would accept anyone into their home without question . |
| 10 | Though he is too politically cautious to admit it in public , Mr Reilly knows he needs taxes as a weapon in the environmental arsenal , even if they are disguised under another label . |
| 11 | On first viewing , the movement is too enjoyably dense to take in fully — in old Page-style the head , torso and arms work in radical counterpoints to the legs , but their opposition is much less clamorous and wilful than before . |
| 12 | He ignored her underlying anger as he said , ‘ And again you were an angel to make the attempt on behalf of Battleaxe Bertha , who is too damned arrogant to make the effort herself . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's pitch-black , ’ said Fen , ‘ we would n't see much , and it 's too damned cold to sit about . |
| 14 | I am hoping , with all my artistic heart , that this report turns out to be a myth , as I have tested a whole range of media including oils , only to discover what could be considered a negative quality in me : I am too damned impatient to allow the oils to dry before continuing with the painting ! |
| 15 | These are too horrendously complicated to attempt an explanation here , but if your company trades with other EC countries , get advice from your local VAT office . |
| 16 | Many truly deserving individuals do not realise what they are entitled to , or are too misguidedly proud to claim what is actually their money . |
| 17 | But I was too bloody scared to accept the offer . |