Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various government measures — regional policies , anti-discrimination legislation , etc. — have been far too weak to counter the impact of market forces that affect more adversely the industrially weak groups in society . |
| 2 | The French kings were as yet too weak to use the arrière-ban , if they had wished to , save in quite exceptional circumstances , as in 1124 . |
| 3 | Although chalk is a very pure limestone it is mechanically too weak to allow the development of large underground cavities . |
| 4 | While the infantry was still too weak to wrest the initiative from the enemy , carefully prepared artillery ‘ offensives ’ were directed by Pétain , to cause maximum loss to the enemy at minimum cost to himself . |
| 5 | If the density is less than a certain critical value , determined by the rate of expansion , the gravitational attraction will be too weak to halt the expansion . |
| 6 | One is dismayed to learn that 3,000 million do not get pure drinking water and so are too weak to undertake the work necessary to grow more food . |
| 7 | SICK Belfast baby Caolan McDonald is to return home from hospital in England because he is too weak to undergo a transplant operation , his family said today . |
| 8 | Another laser , too weak to bleach the dye , reads the memory . |
| 9 | That , and the steady loss of blood from the massive internal damage inflicted by the passage of Lomax 's bullet through ribs , muscle and lung , rendered him too weak to escape the prospect of the horrifying death he now faced . |
| 10 | But now the banks are themselves too weak to offer a bridge . |
| 11 | I fiddle with my safety catch like I 've just finished on the firing range , and I lean back looking nonchalant because I 'm too weak to make a move . |
| 12 | There 's always a chance she may be too weak to withstand the treatment . |
| 13 | He is too weak to bear the force of that … even if I felt it , and I am not a cruel woman . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , you lovely feller , not 'alf I would n't , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I was too weak to eat the cheese roll , so Bessie ate it for me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They were spectral figures in pyjama stripes , ’ she recalled , ‘ too weak to eat the food their liberators offered them . ’ |
| 16 | They make three main criticisms : Regional policy has been too weak to counteract the tendency of large capitalist enterprises to move where it is most profitable from the immediate point of view and irrespective of social consequences on the local community . |
| 17 | Now , of course , she knew her mother had been too vain to acknowledge a daughter whose age would be an indication of her own . |
| 18 | Sense relations of the more specific sort are obviously too numerous and too idiosyncratic to form the basis for a general study of lexical semantics . |
| 19 | For the Turks have always hoped that the war would be prolonged until both sides were too exhausted to remain a menace to anybody . |
| 20 | After a long day of wiping her son 's eyes , arse and office floors , mummy was often too exhausted to continue the struggle . |
| 21 | He wanted to say : ‘ With a girl like you in the room ? ’ but was too exhausted to make the effort . |
| 22 | We got talking and strolled along the riverside path too engrossed to hear the rumble of thunder getting nearer , or note the wind getting up to a blustery gale . |
| 23 | I 'm not saying you will always be successful or that it will never cost you a penny , nor am I advising those almost too timid to open a can of beans to tinker with a complex and potentially dangerous machine if they feel it 's beyond them ; we all have our limitations . |
| 24 | She was too upset to continue the call and I regretted my decision . |
| 25 | The families of the two tourists were too upset to attend the service . |
| 26 | On the other hand the cautiously scientific , but unsensational , studies of population geneticists such as Cavalli-Sforza are usually too technical to provide a basis for any dialogue with the intuitionists . |
| 27 | Would it be too presumptuous to get a bottle out ? |
| 28 | A few nurses also commented that patients would wear them when the ulcer was healed , were too old and too frail to get the hosiery on , refused to wear it or could not tolerate it . |
| 29 | Besides , I 'd be too shy to ask the way from who had such an obvious contempt for children who still did n't know their way around the school . |
| 30 | Even after a few beers , I am too shy to ask the reason . |