Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drums had been too loud to hear the preliminary ripping , so when the tree suddenly crashed to the ground , no one moved . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The UNHCR is too weak to press the governments of Kenya or Djibouti into accepting and caring for them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although chalk is a very pure limestone it is mechanically too weak to allow the development of large underground cavities . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many an anti-dog man joins the ranks of dog lovers because he is too weak to resist the demands of beloved children , but in Wexford 's household the demands had never been more than half-hearted , so he had passed through this snare and come out unscathed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For instance , cinder cones , which are composed entirely of tephra , are structurally too weak to attain a large size ( Fig. 5.8 ) . |
| 12 | Another laser , too weak to bleach the dye , reads the memory . |
| 13 | Japan was too weak to impose an unequal treaty on China . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But now the banks are themselves too weak to offer a bridge . |
| 16 | The claims of the army , that the Vietcong were too weak to launch a major attack , were shown to be quite unjustified . |
| 17 | This peace-keeping conception of policing is less likely to apply where democratic influence is too weak to restrain a police chiefs commitment to a law-enforcement conception . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There 's always a chance she may be too weak to withstand the treatment . |
| 20 | Arran was far too weak to pursue a consistent policy . |
| 21 | It was soon realised , however , that the national bourgeoisie was too weak to pursue an independent line and being themselves involved in the complexities of dependent development , their orientations remained the same as the rest of the dominant class . |
| 22 | If he had had the strength he would have broken the flute , but his left hand was too weak to apply the necessary force . |
| 23 | He is too weak to bear the force of that … even if I felt it , and I am not a cruel woman . |
| 24 | ‘ They were spectral figures in pyjama stripes , ’ she recalled , ‘ too weak to eat the food their liberators offered them . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now , of course , she knew her mother had been too vain to acknowledge a daughter whose age would be an indication of her own . |
| 28 | From shopping to chopping to cooking — it was all terribly hard work leaving many people too shattered to enjoy the fruits of their own labour ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For the Turks have always hoped that the war would be prolonged until both sides were too exhausted to remain a menace to anybody . |