Example sentences of "was too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visually , the change was too subtle to attract much notice . |
| 2 | Many of these halls have been restored but , though the craftsmanship is good and great care has been taken , the task was too extensive to permit the finance necessary to restore the buildings to the standard of richness that they had originally . |
| 3 | I was too agitated to notice anything like that at the time . ’ |
| 4 | The notion of balance , for example , was too narrow to explore divergent opinions and subtleties : it necessarily divided and exaggerated differences for the sake of political television . |
| 5 | The passage was too narrow to let her slip past the Woman . |
| 6 | For several decades most scientists assumed that the discrepancy was too negligible to worry about : after all , no one said that everything in the Universe should work perfectly . |
| 7 | I wondered if he was too obtuse to pick up what I was driving at ; he was a simple soldier , after all , serving his country to the best of his ability , etc. , etc . |
| 8 | An excess of teenage hormones , he told himself , lying desperately because the truth was too uncomfortable to face . |
| 9 | Rain conceded : ‘ He insisted to me that she was too loyal to give anything away . ’ |
| 10 | Professional Cornishman who resigned the Tory whip in protest at tin mining closures , but was too loyal to tell anyone . |
| 11 | A mistake in measurements taken in Dr Barnes 's home meant it was too wide to install . |
| 12 | The blank pages in my diary testify as much , and in addition that I was too apathetic to continue recording just how bored I was in the periods between my bouts of organising activity . |
| 13 | For days , weeks , I was too indecisive to do anything , thinking that once home your love would fade — ’ |
| 14 | The environmental movement was too short-lived to ensure the rigid implementation of the 1970 Clean Air Act and this is one reason why the Clean Air Act was subsequently relaxed and weakened during the 1970s . |
| 15 | She was too upset to continue the call and I regretted my decision . |
| 16 | I was too upset to go to school . |
| 17 | Robert 's wife Jeannette , 56 , was too upset to talk . |
| 18 | Evidence of identification was given by the college chaplain who said he was too upset to talk about the death . |
| 19 | Mrs Duncan , who now lives in Bryn Rhydd , Ruthin , was too upset to talk yesterday . |
| 20 | But he was too upset to remember clearly . |
| 21 | Ellen had to take Jed to casualty to have a cut above his eye stitched , as poor Prune was too upset to do it . |
| 22 | At dinner on the night when her doll had been broken , however , Katherine was too upset to pretend to be invisible . |
| 23 | His brother Peter was too upset to come to the phone today but his secretary confirmed that Hunt , a father-of-two , died of a heart attack during the night . |
| 24 | Staff at the 26-room home were shocked and warden Maureen Goudge was too upset to comment . |
| 25 | Her grief-stricken father , who was born in Mossley Hill , was too upset to comment on tragedy last night . |
| 26 | The grandfather added : ‘ He was too upset to tell me how they died and I did n't want to ask him . |
| 27 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 28 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 29 | Often a German settler , realising that his farm was too poor to yield the one-sixth levy required to keep his purchase , would offer instead free labour on the lord 's demesne . |
| 30 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |