Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , you 're too preoccupied to be nervous . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're too young to be sexist . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're too good to be true , ’ Dana said . |
| 4 | that would upset me mum and dad , I do n't want , they 're too old to be upset |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm too old to be upset . ’ |
| 6 | When his estimate is replaced by a more realistic one , the predicted parallax turns out to be too small to be detectable by Brahé 's instruments . |
| 7 | His approach is a clear indication that the apparent rigours of Faccenda are now being mitigated by judges because the definition of trade secrets given in that case has been found to be too narrow to be workable . |
| 8 | Investments that appear to be too good to be true often are . |
| 9 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |
| 10 | John Ferrar knew Little Gidding to be too notorious to be safe , and guided him to a private house nearby . |
| 11 | Though the Court of Appeal is also a court of supervision , it appears to be too busy to be able to devote as much time and thought as is needed to such cases . |
| 12 | Although these instances serve to illustrate the character of holist explanation , and to show how it can occur without any individualist counterpart , they may be too isolated to be persuasive . |
| 13 | Dreaming , or the dreamwork , allowed these ideas , which would otherwise be too upsetting to be compatible with sleep , to be dressed up in symbolism , defused of their obviously sexual or aggressive meanings . |
| 14 | My parents were too poor to be able to give one another a birthday present each year , though there was always a present for each of us four children , Stanley , Laura , Edith and myself . |
| 15 | She thought murder and a cache of death-dealing drugs were too serious to be subject to petty considerations like that , but the Josephs and Maurin were not listening . |
| 16 | In the past , it often seemed that the fines were too small to be effective — the maximum fine a magistrates court can impose is £2,000 . |
| 17 | Years later her increasing helplessness was causing unhappiness at home , yet there was still no one to whom she could turn : her parents had died ; her children had left her ; her sister was in Canada ; the family doctors and hospital doctors were uninterested ; and , apart from arranging adaptations to her house , social services were too overworked to be accessible . |
| 18 | The great linden tree , the traditional place for a village parliament , was lopsided even now from missing branches , and the nearest farmhouse was patched with un-matching brickwork and some of the window frames were too square to be old . |
| 19 | For larger systems the bundles of energy were too numerous to be countable . |
| 20 | The Liberal politics were too ardent to be mere intellectual exercise . |
| 21 | Brightness is too famous to be free |
| 22 | The banks say the Phoenix survey is too small to be representative but insist it 's up to customers to check statements . |
| 23 | It is too early to be sure whether this new technology will establish itself in our schools but , if you are investigating the potential of video in an institution , you should certainly know what videodisc is capable of . |
| 24 | ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . |
| 25 | High street sales last month showed their strongest year-on-year growth since May , but Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the the Confederation of British Industry 's distributive trades panel , who carried out the survey , said : ‘ Given the levels of consumer debt and the continuing rise in unemployment , it is too early to be sure we are seeing a sustainable recovery in consumer spending . ’ |
| 26 | This is too tremendous to be true , ’ breathed Captain Pugwash . |
| 27 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
| 28 | The apparently simple question ‘ Does the media influence voters ? ’ is too general to be meaningful . |
| 29 | This statement is too general to be meaningful . |
| 30 | Unfortunately we know nothing about the predecessors of Spartokos , nor can archaeology help much , and we can not say whether dynastic troubles in the 450s might have caused shortages on the Athenian grain market ; the seizure of power by the Spartokids is too late to be relevant . |