Example sentences of "be far too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 You 're far too young to smoke !
2 You 're far too young to smoke !
3 You 're far too young to smoke !
4 ‘ No one said to him , ‘ Wolfgang — that was his name , Wolfgang — you 're far too young to have music published , ’ ’ said Michael .
5 I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused .
6 We 're far too tribal to think of central power . ’
7 Beyond the precincts of my own family , I am far too inhibited to have rows with people .
8 I am far too old to change now . ’
9 As it is , they say , British broadcasters are far too small to compete effectively in export markets or to resist overseas predators .
10 Moreover , they are far too easy to play .
11 They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ .
12 They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ .
13 Aerial photography requires good expanses of clear skies to be successful , and if you hire a helicopter in advance , you must make the booing subject to weather conditions — flights are far too expensive to hang around ( quite literally ) waiting for clouds to pass in order to take pictures .
14 Yesterday , Fairlie confirmed that her disappearance had occurred exactly a year before Joanna 's , and added : ‘ The coincidences between what I did and this affair in England are far too great to dismiss . ’
15 For the moment the democrats in Russia are far too weak to take power on their own .
16 What these children face is a kind of colonial experience which they are far too young to fight against .
17 Snotlings can not be joined by heroes or led by them — they fight as a big mass of their own kind and are far too excited to respond to even the simplest commands .
18 Even the Snotlings will fight as they are far too excited to care what they are doing .
19 But they are far too high to meet Sweden 's target .
20 ‘ TV highlights the unsavoury incidents , they are far too ready to put them on the screen .
21 Speaking personally , my own view is that reputable City institutions are far too ready to temper the wind to slick operators like Ingard .
22 Our power-station workers are far too responsible to fiddle with controls they do n't understand .
23 The individuals who have contributed are far too numerous to mention .
24 The publications resulting from these collected data are far too numerous to list individually though such a directory is available .
25 so many of the teachers that teach it are far too embarrassed to broach the subject sensibly , you know , and they just pass it on and so kids do n't treat it sensibly .
26 They are far too liable to have it chopped off .
27 Few people pass this hurdle much before they are 40 , at which point they are far too old to begin any other type of career .
28 They therefore have no leadership value — they are far too crazed to care !
29 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 .
30 The additions made to the salaries of teachers or doctors working in undesirable areas have been far too small to have the intended effect .
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