Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The evidence of Irish contact with Egypt is too extensive to review in detail .
2 are you ever too old to FALL IN LOVE ?
3 The fact that the Fund was only too willing to lend in return for a written undertaking that domestic economic policy would follow the lines agreed in negotiations between Treasury officials and the Fund investigators in the autumn of 1976 , involved what many Labour activists saw as a loss of governing powers to an external force that was anti-socialist .
4 Other aromatic varieties are either too delicate to cultivate in Champagne or too late ripening to bear fruit .
5 This makes homogeneous brittle materials much too dangerous to use in practice when there is any serious stress on them .
6 Aside from the sports hall there are outside facilities , many of which are rather too cold to do in winter .
7 Ian Lloyd Jones , Chris Jex , C. Allen and R. Wright have all been at work in the Llanberis slate quarries , although their findings are rather too numerous to record in detail .
8 The list of changes in modern capitalism which have been seen as fundamentally questioning the original Marxist theory are too numerous to mention in detail , so we will confine ourselves to the major changes which have fuelled debate amongst Marxists .
9 I would be only too pleased to work in conjunction with CPRE to enhance the quality of the index and agree arrangements for its regular up-dating .
10 It may be uneconomic or too inflexible to implement in hardware all of a computer 's instruction set .
11 Perhaps it is too new to appear in reference books .
12 He was at this stage in his life too disinclined to indulge in retrospection and perhaps too self-absorbed to consider his mother 's life and death in the context of his own life .
13 Many of the prisoners to whom ITN spoke were too scared to talk in front of the TV cameras .
14 She did n't say anything to me and I was too scared to speak in case she started on me , but her mood changed in a flash when Mary came down , and she was all smiles .
15 The enemy models may not fight back as they are too surprised to react in time to return blows .
16 He was too arrogant , too proud , too ready to sit in judgement on her , but —
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