Example sentences of "seem too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed too good to pass up . |
| 2 | The rope seemed too slender to tow the forty-foot barge , piled high with coal or timber ; but it would glide by , scarcely breaking the still surface of the water . |
| 3 | The issue seemed too hot to handle for Andrew Neil , Sunday Sport boss David Sullivan , Anne Robinson , Oliver Reed and Jaci Stephens , but Paul Raymond , pornographer and Soho publican replied . |
| 4 | It seemed too strange to believe . |
| 5 | They seemed too exhausted to take much in , apart from one little girl who understood very well . |
| 6 | Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room . |
| 7 | The Annual Conference was held on 11 March — Peter considered going but the one-day rate , at £50 plus , seemed too expensive to warrant it . |
| 8 | Some things seemed too intimate to share , and she would have to speak of secrets which were not her own . |
| 9 | Her body seemed too languorous to react quickly to the commands her brain was issuing . |
| 10 | He seemed too stunned to speak before snorting with mirth again . |
| 11 | He seemed too depressed to do very much , wandering round the house like a zombie . |
| 12 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 13 | Charity glared at her cousin , but Donna seemed too upset to notice . |
| 14 | They seemed too frightened to move . |
| 15 | To my surprise , the newsagent seemed too afraid to speak , shaking , sweating and holding his palms up in refusal of my letter . |
| 16 | Most of these patients died for reasons unrelated to their strange behaviour , and such microscopic abnormalities as might be found in the brain seemed too obscure to account for the disturbance of the mind . |
| 17 | Perhaps I should have known there was something wrong ; the taproom was strangely quiet , the slattern had disappeared and the landlord seemed too busy to care . |
| 18 | Children between eight and twelve seem too young to fight against cultural racism in school ; it is as though they are almost stunned into accepting the inferiority with which white society has labelled them . |
| 19 | At first they seem too creased to give the butterfly any chance of survival . |
| 20 | If this is accepted , the obvious caveats about the need for having a balanced portfolio and for not having too many eggs in one basket , etc. seem too obvious to require any amplification . |
| 21 | The Neo-Expressionists mostly seem too dour to qualify — and most do not make prints on a sufficiently regular basis . |
| 22 | There is evidence of the arrival of migrants at various stages in Crete 's prehistory , but it seems too facile to attribute each change in the island 's culture to the arrival of a new group of immigrants . |
| 23 | But cumulative selection can not work unless there is some minimal machinery of replication and replicator power , and the only machinery of replication that we know seems too complicated to have come into existence by means of anything less than many generations of cumulative selection ! |
| 24 | Some of them had asked her to marry them , but life had seemed too good to settle down . |
| 25 | The opportunity to fly down from Liverpool to a sales meeting at Maidenhead via White Waltham had seemed too good to pass up . |
| 26 | ‘ He did n't seem too delighted to see you , ’ said Betty . |
| 27 | These replies may seem too trivial to mention — a nod , a murmur , ‘ that 's OK ’ or whatever , but if these signs are not provided the offender is left with the uneasy sense that his or her offence , trivial or not , is permanently entered in the criminal record . |
| 28 | Because as I ask him some question about women , wine or wit Dudley Moore is busy chewing his nails until they might well bleed , it does n't seem too rude to mention the ends of his fingertips . |
| 29 | We are creating the first annual Hall of Shame to show that personalities are willing to take the plaudits , but do not seem too willing to accept the responsibilities that go with their positions . |