Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So here we are , you know , our leader was someone who was homeless for times during his ministry and he belonged to a people who said their god was the father of the fatherless and the protector of widows , and god who gives the desolate a home to dwell in . |
| 2 | This may be too despairing a note to end on . |
| 3 | It was too good a place to miss out on . |
| 4 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 5 | The number is so large that the entire age of the universe so far is too short a time to write out all the noughts ! |
| 6 | In his cluttered roof-void office-cum-spare bedroom , where clothes dry under the skylight and ergonomics is too big a word to fit in , he writes massive chunks of operating software for mainframe computers , programmes which can take between one and a half and ten ‘ man years ’ to complete . |
| 7 | But he can not afford to sit back on the basis that Everton are too big a club to go down . |
| 8 | It may be felt that replacing two straight cores with a ring structure is too drastic a change to gloss over , but the mechanism is not too different in the two cases . |
| 9 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |