Example sentences of "it [was/were] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 With force becoming less attractive , the states-system was likely to stay in place , since the available means to overthrow it were too destructive to use .
2 An operation like this must be a write-off , the odds against it were too great to make it worth pursuing .
3 At an Italo-Ethiopian conference twenty years ago , experts who had overseen the transport of the Axum obelisk to Italy decided that it was too fragile to risk the home trip .
4 It was too long to remember , but it was n't the idea of being wet that mattered .
5 It was too long to go without being blooded .
6 But although the imperial bureaucracy was growing in size , it was too small to take over all the duties for which landlords had been responsible .
7 Bishop was glad it was too small to see : it made suppressing the imagined screams of the people inside that much easier .
8 It was too small to have done him much harm . ’
9 The carpet itself , old and threadbare with strange geometric patterns on it ( like the flying carpet in one of her childhood story books ) floated like an uneven raft on the knobbly floorboards , which it was too small to cover .
10 The management of the company had concluded it was too small to survive on its own .
11 Speaking after the election Greiner said that it was too early to assess " why I did n't get it right , and why almost no one in the community got it right " .
12 Mr Peter Markie , of Rudby parish council , said research into the health effects of EMF was in its infancy and it was too early to discount links .
13 It was too early to reach firm conclusions as to the direction 's effectiveness .
14 It recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat to Darlington , saying it was too early to allow the economic barriers erected against the country 's apartheid policies to be brought down .
15 But they did n't have high expectations , and that done , they decided it was too early to open a full subsidiary . ’
16 Paul Masters of BZW , the stockbroking arm of Barclays Bank , said it was too early to say what reductions in commission rates would be possible .
17 Most fund managers believed it was too early to say when they would consider buying London shares again .
18 But it was too early to say whether fans would sway any decision on his future .
19 A Witham police spokesman said it was too early to say what caused the accident .
20 Richard Erb , Deputy Managing Director of the IMF , said that it was too early to say whether Russia could meet inflation or budget deficit targets for 1992 .
21 It was too early to say when he might return .
22 Another worker said it was too early to say whether industrial action was likely , but added : ‘ My own feeling is that we are caught between a rock and a hard place . ’
23 Mr Murdoch said it was too early to say whether the firm could be sold on as a going concern ; much depended on negotiating settlements on contracts .
24 Though it was too early to say how BP would respond to the opportunities created by the Budget , he said it was looking at several projects for extra investment in North Sea fields already in production .
25 The Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , said it was too early to say if this was the end of the upward trend in unemployment .
26 Lorraine Mann , of the Scottish Campaign against Nuclear Dumping , said it was too early to dismiss a connection between a cluster of cases around Thurso and the Dounreay plant .
27 It was too early to go to bed yet — though she 'd an idea that while this worry was on her mind she would n't be doing a lot of sleeping .
28 Mr Bensley felt it was too early to link the incidents — but pointed out the disturbing pattern of attempts by youths in stolen cars to lure police patrol cars into ambushes .
29 But the Treasury warned that it was too early to predict whether the unemployment rate had peaked .
30 He said it was too early to talk about the number of jobs but the project would probably be less ambitious than the original scheme .
  Next page