Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AccuCard and its ilk sit between the power supply and the motherboard. so they 're too far downstream to help . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm too tired even to object ’ , said one drained looking young woman . |
| 3 | If it should be made in conjunction with the Corvedale line , assuming that the capital is raised for that line , it may be too late then to enquire how trains are to run from Lydham village to Bishop 's Castle , which now might be placed on the main line , or what expenditure will be necessary to make the roads to Lydham village as suitable for the inhabitants of Norbury , Wentnor , &c. , as those over which they at present travel to Lydham Heath . |
| 4 | William peered out of the side window when they came to the crossroads but it would be too far away to see anything , even if it was still there . |
| 5 | The young man went on staring at him ; the idea that he had seen Dyson on television seemed to be too far-fetched even to penetrate his consciousness . |
| 6 | But neither Robson nor Charlton may be too keen now to expose their teams to the little nuances and shifts of psychological advantage that could have a bearing on the game in Cagliari on June 11 . |
| 7 | This , according to Wolfgang , would have distinct advantages : it would provide him with a legal outlet for the ‘ voice of nature ’ , which he swore he had never yet indulged , being too honourable either to seduce innocent girls or have dealings with prostitutes ; and a wife would be able to tend his domestic needs — he admitted he was no good at looking after himself . |
| 8 | My family were too poor ever to have a holiday together , and my first glimpse of the sea was on a choir outing shortly after my joining . |
| 9 | His wife , Sonia Gandhi , was an Italian-born Christian who had made known her distaste for the political life imposed on her husband ; their son Rahul , 21 , and daughter Priyanka , 19 , were too young even to enter the Lok Sabha . |
| 10 | There was no advantage in taking them back to the barn where they 'd been born , as when we found them they were too young ever to have been out of it , so would n't have known their way around . |
| 11 | Two were out of contact because of physical distance : the fate of a Berwickshire couple who had emigrated to Australia was ‘ a mystery ’ , while even within the same county a Norfolk farm labourer 's parents were too far away to visit on foot , so the family ‘ hardly ever saw them . ’ |
| 12 | They 'd like him to go , all right , but were too scared now to ask it of him . |
| 13 | The number of those employed as teachers , artists , etc. , is too great even to mention . |
| 14 | It is too late tonight to begin exploring . |
| 15 | It is too late now to ask the right hon. Gentleman what he intends to do about that , as he will lose his job over it on 9 April , but can he tell me of any other Government who have allowed their textile industry to bleed to death in that fashion without helping it ? |
| 16 | It is too late now to submit a general appeal , but there are still circumstances when the regulations will permit a valid appeal . |
| 17 | Relearning is a longer , gradual process with ups and downs and it is too easy just to give up . |
| 18 | It is too simple just to link the protection of the environment and the protection of animals , as it is equally simple to impose blanket condemnation on modern intensive agriculture , especially on the factory-farming of animals . |
| 19 | If the ball is too far away to trap normally , just press and release the fire button — as long as it 's too low for a diving header , you 'll execute a sliding tackle . |
| 20 | No price is too high just to feel your arms round me now and then . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's too dark now to see exactly what it is but it looks rather sweet . ’ |
| 22 | She 's too far away to see you properly . |
| 23 | Is that is that the swan up there look or is it the white I ca n't it 's too far away to see . |
| 24 | It 's too early yet to say whether erm it will revolutionise the chemical industry . |
| 25 | Life 's too extraordinary just to write about that over and over and over again and to be so attached to that pain . |
| 26 | It 's too painful even to talk about . |
| 27 | We would n't have found it difficult to reconstruct the exchange even if we had been too far away to hear what was said . |
| 28 | Too many parents have been too afraid ever to acknowledge the real state of our affairs to their children . |
| 29 | Indeed , if anything , they seem to have been too demoralised politically to organise effectively at anything more than a local level , and that in itself is testimony to the devastating effect of the Kulturkampf and Polenpolitik . |
| 30 | T am too wounded still to say what –s right . |