Example sentences of "too [adj] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps too much has been expected of it : education policy is too weak an instrument for counteracting the great weight of inequality in British society . |
| 2 | The unaccustomed air of the realms above — ; Too sharp , too rich a mixture for her shrunk lungs — ; He stopped and said ‘ One last thing I must show you . |
| 3 | In Rosemary 's book , ‘ lecherous , cretinous , oversexed reptile ’ was too polite a term for a man who seemed to think any female working for his father was fair game . |
| 4 | There were two strands to the government 's strategy , although " strategy " is probably too strong a word for a policy which evolved opportunistically . |
| 5 | If pastrami is too strong a flavour for your taste , then use roast beef or ham instead . |
| 6 | Both Sony and the Koei Group gave various reasons for the split , Sony that its mission of developing the desk-top publishing market on workstations had been accomplished , while the Koei Group indicated that Sony 's NEWS was too narrow a system for the jointly developed software , which will now be converted for other workstations and personal computers , including Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems and Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh . |
| 7 | This is far too broad a question for us to seek to answer on our own , even if we wished to , affecting as it does everyone who hopes to enter higher education , their parents and their future employers ; but it is imperative that the debate should be joined . |
| 8 | The food there did n't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon £30 is n't too high a price for eating in a beautiful , traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set , being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin 's chorus at the Palladium . |
| 9 | Puffer , for instance , suggests that the restricted family life a psychological career demands is too high a price for women to pay , and urges them , instead , to study ‘ borderline subjects ’ , a ‘ fringe of specialist research ’ , or do consulting , criticism , and reviewing ( Furumoto and Scarsborough 1986 : 41 ) . |
| 10 | She was too generous an agent for that . |
| 11 | Was it too universal a theme for the Gaelic fund committee to tackle , too big a scale of project , too close to reality and too controversial a subject ? |
| 12 | The same fragility can be heard in the six songs that complete this issue , and she seems too light a voice for either the humouristic pomp of the Ballade des gros Dindons , or the lovely lyricism of Chanson pour Jeanne and L'île heureuse . |
| 13 | ‘ Servant ’ seemed too coarse a word for such a refined creature and indeed she made it plain that she did not usually inhabit a servants ' hall . |
| 14 | Some birds are so small that twigs are too coarse a material for them to use as the main fabric of their nest . |
| 15 | The first is that the possibility of a revolution occurring in a country where capitalism was poorly developed made him aware of the problem of setting up too rigid a sequence for human evolution . |
| 16 | " Draw anything you like " is too vast a possibility for most children . |
| 17 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 18 | Before a demoralising defeat when challenging Mike Tyson for the world heavyweight championship two years ago Biggs would have probably been too dangerous a proposition for Mason but something has gone from him since then and he was unable to fulfil bold pre-fight assertions . |
| 19 | Until his organized excursions , travel was considered far too dangerous a pastime for most women . |
| 20 | In the month that WWII broke out , Trumbo 's pacifistic novel about the previous bash was issued and instantly suppressed ( a move with which , incidentally , the author was in full agreement , feeling it too dangerous a book for soldiers already in the field to be exposed to ) . |
| 21 | Prison reformers say Britain 's first privatised jail will be too dangerous a job for the company planning to run it.A leading security firm based in the Central South region will provide the guards at the jail . |
| 22 | I still had this idea that my weight was too personal a topic for other people to talk about . |
| 23 | it may even be safer if elderly , infirm or disabled persons do not use high street cash dispensers , they are too easy a target for opportunistic thugs . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll crash in the back of the van for a couple of hours before hitting the road , I 'm too easy a target for the cops in that thing and I 'm over the limit . ’ |
| 25 | Industrial training is too crucial a question for politicians to remain ignorant about the issues involved . |
| 26 | Penry , hostile and intimidating , was too large a presence for the small office . |
| 27 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |
| 28 | Although McQueen is too lightweight a performer for the part , he occasionally reaches moments of tragic agony . |
| 29 | It was too fine a day for the car . |
| 30 | The Swiss money-laundering network run for Monzer al-Kassar by Arman Haser and the Magharian brothers was altogether too valuable an asset for the Syrians to have left unprotected . |