Example sentences of "[vb past] too late " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must also be accurate , or at least accurate enough for the recipient , and timely , as information provided too late for the particular p urpose is use it can respond to the changing needs of the user . |
| 2 | Jason McCoy , all this month , has a show of Jackson Pollock drawings among which are two large gouaches which surfaced too late for inclusion in the artist 's catalogue raisonné in 1976 . |
| 3 | The subsequent rally in New York came too late to help London shares . |
| 4 | The Gulf war came too late to help the profits of Turner Broadcasting last year , whose CNN broadcasts from Baghdad since the war started have sent viewership — and advertising revenues — soaring . |
| 5 | Whatever the validity of such speculation , the amended result stood , for Ismay 's appeal the following weekend came too late . |
| 6 | The Treasury says the decision to change the basis of treatment , announced by Peter Lilley , Trade and Industry Secretary , on February 13 , came too late to affect the current year 's figures but have been included in the 1993–94 estimates . |
| 7 | Later on they would be joined or replaced by others whose services were equally important but who came too late to be captured on canvas . |
| 8 | Grudging Polish promises to end serfdom , made when the szlachta thought this was the only concession that would rally the peasantry to them against foreign aggression , came too late and in any case lagged far behind the pre-emptive Prussian declarations ending serfdom . |
| 9 | A quarantine tank came too late to save a reader 's bitten Lionfish . |
| 10 | The advice came too late . |
| 11 | A decision to contest a parliamentary seat ‘ if a favourable opportunity should occur ’ and to grant £250 as expenses was taken in October , but it came too late ( SCS Quarterly report 28 October 18 ) . |
| 12 | And though John Sheridan responded with a delightful curling drive from a 20-yard free-kick to make it 2–1 , Zeyer 's bombshell came too late to leave Wednesday any hope of being rescued . |
| 13 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 14 | Alas , they came too late to do the wounded agency , or the arts , much good . |
| 15 | He emerged from the subsequent libel trial against the Daily Star with his reputation intact and £500,000 in damages ( he gave it all to charity ) , but his victory came too late to save his political career . |
| 16 | Legal abortion in Britain since 1967 came too late to explain the beginning of fertility decline . |
| 17 | ‘ And Titch , bless his heart , but it came too late for them . ’ |
| 18 | This reversal of policy came too late to prevent an outbreak in a Catholic area , the Quynh Luu revolt in part of Nghe-An province , in mid-November 1956 . |
| 19 | It was the belief of Chaptal , Napoleon 's Minister , that the attempt to create a colonial market came too late . |
| 20 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is fortunate that such success came too late to affect the newly developing teacher education programmes very fundamentally . |
| 22 | The general diversification of INSET in the later stages of PNP came too late for us to include it in our programme , and in any case our resources were already fully stretched . |
| 23 | It could be argued that it came too late to correct the inequity completely , but at least it was a partial correction . |
| 24 | Auguste 's cry came too late and a dish of ribboned cucumber , garnish for the lobster salads , landed upside down on the floor . |
| 25 | The death of the Emperor Henry VI in September 1197 , leaving a son of two , came too late for the ageing Celestine to reap the benefit , although he immediately began to re-assert papal claims to the Patrimony , the duchy , the March and Tuscany , now fallen into imperial hands . |
| 26 | At length assistance arrived — it came too late ; he was indeed just alive , but died almost immediately . |
| 27 | The doctor came too late to do it . |
| 28 | Luce made a little choked sound , a protest that came too late . |
| 29 | But his intervention came too late for one woman who was evicted today . |
| 30 | It was Leckey 's first NI championship win of the season and came too late to threaten Emerson 's position . |