Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too weak to bargain over the State 's impositions , the townsmen could do no more than try to spread the burden as thinly as possible . |
| 2 | erm but ea she would n't bring him over to the phone , she said oh he 's too weak to come to the phone . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 5 | Evidence of identification was given by the college chaplain who said he was too upset to talk about the death . |
| 6 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 7 | His brother Peter was too upset to come to the phone today but his secretary confirmed that Hunt , a father-of-two , died of a heart attack during the night . |
| 8 | The boys go to school every day — there 's a tiny place in Clyst St George — but they 're at large all the afternoon , and they 're getting a bit too obstreperous to have about the place . |
| 9 | A good example of Airdrie 's dogged persistence came when Alan Lawrence , looking far too frail to survive amid the Rangers defence , somehow wriggled clear of Oleg Kuznetsov on the right and flew the ball to the head of Owen Coyle , who headed high and away from Andy Goram as the goalkeeper twisted to his left . |
| 10 | And so we had , but were too polite to comment on the truly striking resemblance . |
| 11 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 12 | Channel 4 did so , with early programmes attracting audiences too low to register on the ratings . |
| 13 | The traditional Land-Rover is simply too agricultural to compete against the Japanese , especially as these vehicles spend more time ploughing round town than wading through mire . |
| 14 | I 'm just too disheartened to intellectualise about the fascists you reported on in the Love Sees No Colour issue ( FACE 44 ) . |
| 15 | The street is too narrow to take in the full glory of the design by Fischer von Erlach but the two doorways immediately make an impact , with their wonderful straining Hercules bent under the weight of the door entablature . |
| 16 | The political significance of the mass media goes far beyond such questions as ‘ who controls the media ? ’ and ‘ how do people get elected ? ’ ; even concerns over ‘ bias ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ are too narrow to take in the full significance of the mass media . |
| 17 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 18 | On the Eurojet contract we are seeking to actually convert that to a fixed price at this stage because the programme is more advanced it is reasonable to do that er on the air frame contract probably the uncertainty and the degree of risk at this stage is too high to move to a fixed price at this point . |
| 19 | The crane was too high to pass under a new bridge being built at Middlepass Street as part of the new road and rail link . |
| 20 | Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations . |
| 21 | In 1986/87 a farmer client sold his prize dairy herd because he found that at 67 he was too old to cope with the rigorous work involved . |
| 22 | He had never been too sure as , technically , she was too old to come under the heading of pretty . |
| 23 | Some of the original Brats have become a little too old to run with the Pack . |
| 24 | The features must have been too indistinct to program into the computer . |
| 25 | In the event it was too windy to fly on the Sunday so he came back early and they spent the day in his garden preparing an area of lawn for seeding . |
| 26 | Nevertheless the official surveyors who came to map the Trepke boundaries remained too afraid to go into the fields of the estate . |
| 27 | MILLIONS of worried Britons are too afraid to travel through the Channel tunnel , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 28 | Sir Kenneth 's rules were a bit daft in places and far too detailed to work without the risk of continual recourse to the courts . |
| 29 | He had hurt his right ankle and it was too painful to put to the ground . |
| 30 | The Communists were also able to take advantage of groups which had leaders only too willing to co-operate with the Party and to draw on its growing network of organizers and activists . |