Example sentences of "they [be] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that all such considerations are rationally run through and weighed up on every occasion ; they are too familiar to require it . |
| 2 | The first is that we may find it hard to suppose that facts can cause anything ; surely they are too inert to affect the way the world goes , even where that world is the merely mental world of beliefs . |
| 3 | The Government is hoping the BMA 's acceptance of assurances that patients will not be denied drugs for cash reasons will also end allegations that doctors will not take the elderly and chronically sick on lists because they are too expensive to treat . |
| 4 | City authorities from Calcutta to Cairo have laid sewers , but they are too expensive to keep up with the growth of the cities . |
| 5 | Those at home often need opiates ( morphine-like medicines ) for pain , while one in five will also need a special battery-operated syringe pump , especially if they are too weak to swallow . |
| 6 | Not only does this mean that the rural population is not being fully utilised in terms of labour power , it also means they are too poor to provide a substantial market for industry . |
| 7 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 8 | On the other hand they are too exposed to allow themselves the Costa Rican solution of doing without armies altogether . |
| 9 | By the time they reach the end of the pool they are too exhausted to climb out . |
| 10 | Yet every year brings casualties : young drivers behind the wheel of cars they are too inexperienced to handle , losing control and killing themselves or others . |
| 11 | They are too young to drive yet , so its a supportive role ’ . |
| 12 | No child of that age should have to face something which they 've the intelligence to realize can affect their whole lives , even if they are too young to appreciate , mercifully , just how much . |
| 13 | They think we should breed lambs off them and we do n't do that because they are too young to stand the environment , ’ Mr Hartley said . |
| 14 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 15 | 5 ‘ Increasingly children are starting school at six or even five years of age , so that they finish primary school when they are too young to become responsible young workers and citizens . |
| 16 | Oh , they are too innumerable to go into , and it 's just too personal to go into . |
| 17 | The review will increase pressure on scientists at the ministry 's Pesticides Safety Divison who say they are too understaffed to handle the backlog on older , more hazardous chemicals . |
| 18 | And they while they reckon condoms , by far the most popular form of contraception for teenagers , are sensible they are victims of their own self-consciousness because they are too afraid to buy them . |
| 19 | But the problem will be more noticeable when they are too ill to travel and demand services like occupational therapists from their own authorities . |
| 20 | They are too scared to hug them in case that innocent action is misinterpreted , and too scared to smack them when they do wrong in case they are accused of assault . |
| 21 | Hopefully Oldham will prove me right … that SHOULD be an ok game as they are too crap to come and defend for 90 mins , so might try and attack us ( especially as its on the box ) . |
| 22 | Children 's books today are of such a high standard , they are too luscious to ignore . |
| 23 | Or they marry , and passion dies because they are too trivial to sustain it . |
| 24 | The enemy models may not fight back as they are too surprised to react in time to return blows . |
| 25 | The calves , when only a few days old , are tethered by the neck in a stall about 60 cms wide and 150 cms long , until they are too large to turn . |
| 26 | From the comparatively simple point of view of learning pronunciation , these problems are not particularly important ; however , from the point of view of learning about the phonology of English they are too important to ignore . |
| 27 | Even if they are able to find employment or occupation , it is not felt that families should be forced to provide a home for their handicapped son or daughter until they are too old to do so , or that this is necessarily the best thing for the development of a mentally handicapped adult who could derive considerable stimulation and benefit from living apart from their family . |
| 28 | Another common stereotype about older people is that they are too old to learn new skills . |
| 29 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 30 | Or they drift into vice , and do even that too late , so that they are too old to relish the lustiness of sin . |