Example sentences of "prove too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These proved too controversial and modified proposals appeared in the 1968 paper Children in Trouble , which formed the basis of the 1969 Act . |
| 2 | Christmas also proved too durable for its opponents . |
| 3 | The call of their homeland has proved too strong and they have just acquired a 16th-century ruined castle on the Scottish coast which , one day , will be home . |
| 4 | He was ultimately forced to see that the realistic tradition had proved too strong for his friends and for him : ‘ Jack did n't kill the giant . ’ |
| 5 | Sometimes the union was successful in persuading newcomers not to take the work , but employers " inducements often proved too strong . |
| 6 | For the philosophy will have proved too weak to solve what is , after all , a familiar and pervasive problem for Marxists . |
| 7 | Scotland had proved too small to hold two such power-hungry men . |
| 8 | However , expectations of a nirvana in mental health for visitors to the ‘ English Riviera ’ ( as the area is promoted for tourist purposes ) may have proved too great for some . |
| 9 | The cost of underwriting claims , such as the massive bomb in April which caused over £800m worth of damage to the Baltic Exchange and the headquarters of the Commercial Union in the City of London , had proved too great . |
| 10 | The challenge of desktop publishing has proved too great for many companies . |
| 11 | However , the search still proved too expensive , even given the constraints of the data and the knowledge graph , and only a band or ‘ beam ’ of hypotheses was pursued in parallel through the graph . |
| 12 | Subscribers may have noticed the scepticism with which we have tended to greet analysts ' forecasts for IBM Corp 's earnings , and invariably their forecasts have proved too optimistic — but it seems to take time for the true awfulness of the situation to sink in with them . |
| 13 | The price of integration of the British and American programmes had proved too high for both sides . |
| 14 | It 's the shops and small businesses who 've suffered the most , and for many , the last twelve months have proved too tough for them to survive . |
| 15 | The sector by sector approach of the ECSC had proved too problematic . |
| 16 | Bjortson 's instability had proved too extreme , so the group was informed before Servitors distributed their victuals . |
| 17 | ( Joseph ) Startled by the camp 's ferocious defence , Miles mustered the 5th Infantry for a charge ‘ towards the village on foot , but the withering fire of the Indians soon proved too severe , and attempts to capture the village by such means had to be abandoned . ’ |
| 18 | In the end , the Swindon Bulldogs bite proved too fierce for even the Oxford Sharks . |
| 19 | Unfortunately such systems have proved too hard to use for non-experts and too inflexible to support learning rather than training . |
| 20 | The work involved in the dual appointment eventually proved too onerous even for someone of his energy and dedication and in 1884 he resigned the Birmingham post to become full-time secretary of the National Federation at a salary of £800 per annum . |
| 21 | Mersey Barrage Company bosses say the scheme has proved too bold for the funding it needed . |
| 22 | A batch of ten large bogie cars built for the Gravesend and Northfleet tramways in 1902 , evidently proved too large for that undertaking and between 1904 and 1906 , they were offered for sale to other undertakings in the B.E.T . |
| 23 | Centralized government , so the argument goes , has proved too large and too far removed from the problems with which it seeks to cope . |
| 24 | Certainly the joy had gone out of it , and the part-time teaching job she did had proved too difficult to cope with just now . |
| 25 | Trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies had intended to send him straight to the Cheltenham Festival , but the lure of the £25,000-added Cavalier Chase has proved too tempting . |
| 26 | The closure of the hospitals has proved too tempting an opportunity to be missed by the cost-cutting Right . |
| 27 | In the mens final Annadale/Queens proved too experienced for a young All Star team winning by 71–61 . |
| 28 | The bronze statue of Boadicea , in her chariot , which can be seen on the Thames Embankment at Westminster Bridge , is the work of Hamo Thornycroft , R.A. , who had a studio in Holland Park , but it proved too small , so he removed it to the ‘ tin tabernacle ’ which Sir John Isaac Thornycroft , F.R.S. , had built as a workshop in the gardens of Walpole House on Chiswick Mall , during the last decade of the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | At Firbank , where the chapel proved too small , he went out on to the fell to preach to the people , saying that God 's church was not made of stone but of the air and the countryside around . |
| 30 | But the pace proved too hot and Hazell finished off the match with a service run from 10–9 . |