Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations . |
| 2 | In 1986/87 a farmer client sold his prize dairy herd because he found that at 67 he was too old to cope with the rigorous work involved . |
| 3 | Some of the original Brats have become a little too old to run with the Pack . |
| 4 | The Communists were also able to take advantage of groups which had leaders only too willing to co-operate with the Party and to draw on its growing network of organizers and activists . |
| 5 | Voluntary organisation they said , in their desire for recognition and funds , sometimes seem all too willing to conspire with the statutory sector on the basis that they can do the impossible , but miracles take a little longer . |
| 6 | I had a feeling that his logic would not bear close scrutiny but was too numb to argue with the ancient greenkeeper . |
| 7 | Unfortunately it is a very barren group , and when I first went to the southern hemisphere I had difficulty in identifying the pole star , Sigma Octantis , which is only of magnitude 5.5 , and is none too easy to see with the naked eye unless the sky is really dark and clear . |
| 8 | This behaviour is almost too quick to see with the naked eye . |
| 9 | Most animals are bi-laterally symmetrical and their shape is too balanced to match with the irregularities of backgrounds made up of plants , rocks and earth . |
| 10 | Annie was only too glad to cope with the clothes while her husband was out of the way . |
| 11 | Merrill stood staring at the portrait , too stunned to deal with the battery of questions that bombed her brain . |
| 12 | And their small size enables tiny arthropods , some almost too small to see with the naked eye , to live in crannies , within the soil , between sand grains , and the like . |
| 13 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 14 | Images that fill the corridor , packed with images too small to see with the naked eye . |
| 15 | But the council say the school , which has only one full-time teacher , is too small to cope with the new national curriculum . |
| 16 | The business was put up for auction two months ago when Whitbread decided that its spirits operation , including brands such as Long John Scotch , Laphroaig malt whisky , Burrough 's mixed doubles and Beefeater gin , was too small to compete with the giants of the industry like Grand Metropolitan 's IDV , Guinness ' United Distillers and Allied-Lyons ' Hiram Walker Allied Vintners . |
| 17 | Are our organs of government too crude to deal with the conflicting claims of the myriad small communities that make up the whole ? |
| 18 | They were also too crude to cope with the complexity of contemporary life in Britain . |
| 19 | But it is still too slow to cope with the quantities needed for industrial-scale separation . |
| 20 | At the moment the world is too fragmented to deal with the crises that will emerge . |
| 21 | Criticizing the Greens for becoming a " bourgeois party " , Ditfurth accused them of being too keen to ally with the SPD ( in Hesse and Lower Saxony ) , and of abandoning , at a tumultuous April 26-28 congress in Neumünster ( Schleswig-Holstein ) , the rotation of party posts . |
| 22 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 23 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 24 | Either there was no helium or it was too faint to detect with the equipment then available . |
| 25 | Gran would n't follow her ; her rheumatism was too bad to cope with the stairs more than twice a day , morning and evening . |