Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] [to-vb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 're too lazy to do any gardening . |
| 2 | It 's only cos they 're too idle to cart these catalogues and things about . |
| 3 | You 're too busy to speak some days . |
| 4 | Then he smiles as if I 'm too naive to have any right on my side . |
| 5 | The former are trifling and would be too insignificant to have any impact on corporate crime ( Clinard et al . |
| 6 | He added , cynically , that if Labour came in ‘ it would be too weak to do much harm , but not too weak to get discredited ’ . |
| 7 | You 'll need to lie in or you 'll be too exhausted to have any fun . ’ |
| 8 | Depending on the circumstances of the case , a review at this stage would be too late to have any impact on a project . |
| 9 | And reflecting this unease , the visiting valets and footmen appeared to regard one another with marked coldness and my own staff were rather glad to be too busy to spend much time with them . |
| 10 | What you should be aware of though is which elements are the most common in sea water and you 'll not be too surprised to learn that sodium and chlorine , as in sodium chloride , as in common salt are in fact the two most elements in sea water followed by magnesium , sulphur and calcium . |
| 11 | It should n't be too difficult to arrange this matter . |
| 12 | The Law Society 's rules of professional conduct do provide exemptions for this , but even so , a conveyancer should not be too quick to use those exemptions if acting for both sides might conceivably lead to a compromise or a difficult situation . |
| 13 | Although widely endorsed by astrologers , spiritualists and the old Liberal Party , this method is condemned by its detractors as being too uncomplicated to do any good . |
| 14 | They were too shocked to make any comment at the family home today . |
| 15 | In the end the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Widgery , found for the publishers on the ground that , although confidentiality could be enforced in suitable cases , this was not a suitable case : the matters revealed in the first volume of the Diaries , being ten years old , were too stale to have any security aspect . |
| 16 | The numbers using trading checks in our sample were too small to draw any conclusions from , but the National Consumer Credit Federation ( representing mainly small to medium-sized check traders , but some large firms too ) told us that some 80 to 95 per cent of their business is with previous customers , usually long-standing . |
| 17 | Little success had been achieved as they were too slow to have much chance of catching a fleeing Ju88 or Bf110 . |
| 18 | No outsiders could do it better , and the city 's working men and women were too busy to waste another day in idleness . |
| 19 | The Landrat of Ebermannstadt in Upper Franconia , frank as usual in his comment , reported that people in his area Were too careful to say such things as ‘ Hitler will give us no peace till everything has had it ’ , but said instead ‘ there wo n't be any peace before … ’ , and meant the same thing . |
| 20 | So far the information available is too small to draw any conclusions , but the correlations from the papers in this volume are suggestive and deserve further investigation on a comparative basis . |
| 21 | It is too early to answer this question with any certainty . |
| 22 | A spokesman said : ‘ At this stage it is too early to give any indication of their conditions . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ People who have skills in one authority are likely to be accepted in another unless they have higher standards of training and qualifications , but it is too early to see any pattern , ’ he says . |
| 24 | Bones in organic rich soil appear to be altering more than bones in well drained sandy soil , but it is too early to attach any significance to this apparent change . |
| 25 | It is too early to make that decision . ’ |
| 26 | The term ‘ caring ’ is too wide to have much utility and the use of ‘ tending ’ as an element of caring has made it clear that the focus is upon those who perform physical tasks for others . |
| 27 | Thus , whatever the layman might mean by the term ‘ competition ’ , the equilibrium theorist came to use it to connote a market in which each participant is too weak to effect any change in price . |
| 28 | Take-up is lower among medium-sized companies ‘ perhaps because they feel their profile is too low to attract many claims or that their shareholding is so tightly controlled they wo n't come up against too many disgruntled shareholders who are the main source of claim in this country . ’ |
| 29 | What is now being sought is , in a sense , a reversal of that development , in a particular type of case ; and it is said that it is too late to take that step . |
| 30 | When a team loses five or six games it is too easy to accept another defeat . |