Example sentences of "too [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English are too down to earth for successful symbolism . |
| 2 | Industry watchers say IBM has waited too long to roll-out the AIX database and predict it will only shore up dedicated IBM mainframe clients — users with RS/6000s running Sybase Inc and Oracle Corp databases are unlikely candidates , the company admits . |
| 3 | We should n't leave them lying around the house like a tube of vitamin C. If the words come too easily to hand , we 'll use them without thought ; we wo n't be able to resist . |
| 4 | come and sit down and get to business , now he may not , he may still want to have a chat about the weather or whatever you know so again be aware that to cut too soon to business |
| 5 | All the way home she held her tongue , answering only in monosyllables to her father 's habitual complaints and strictures , which never were meant to be taken too deeply to heart . |
| 6 | More objective observers regarded the contest as too close to call . |
| 7 | It is also estimated that 37 Tory backbenchers are set to vote against the government in Wednesday 's Maastricht debate , making the result too close to call . |
| 8 | But their own preoccupations with rational , thinking subjects often bring them too close to psychology 's notion of the subject for them to question it . |
| 9 | ‘ Too close to base ? ’ ventured one of the men . |
| 10 | ‘ Too much emotional hassle , too close to home ? ’ |
| 11 | Yet probably The Rock relies on a form too close to extinction at the time for it to bring the whole revue to life . |
| 12 | It has the usual big , doleful ballads , smartly arranged and sung , but written with a dictionary of cliches too close to hand . |
| 13 | Patrick Stewart , secretary of the CFA , however , said yesterday that it should be made clear that the pinger was not the answer to the problem of submarines operating too close to fishing vessels . |
| 14 | It was getting too close to reality . |
| 15 | Was it too universal a theme for the Gaelic fund committee to tackle , too big a scale of project , too close to reality and too controversial a subject ? |
| 16 | Heater too close to coat rack . |
| 17 | Tried moving to right but then too close to frame . |
| 18 | The book made large , generous claims for life , and for itself : its beguiling charm made people reluctant to point out that what they had read was in fact a factitious marshalling of concerns that did not stand up too well to scrutiny . |
| 19 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |