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