Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 2 | The planning department found that business units considered the time horizon of the issues to be too long to be of relevance and these issues were therefore considered to be ‘ back of the mind ’ flagging signals and were therefore not acted on . |
| 3 | On some sites , though , the dating may be too imprecise to be of particular value , and may lack direct relationships between the features . |
| 4 | In short , of the rules and generalisations that could be made about conveying attitudes through intonation , those which are not actually wrong are likely to be too trivial to be worth learning . |
| 5 | Their parents , the authorities and everyone else thought they were too young to be in love , too young to really cope with adult responsibilities . |
| 6 | Conversely , psychology itself has been in no shape to deliver the goods it promised : if educationists were atheoretical , psychologists for their part were producing theories which were too crude to be of much use to educational researchers . |
| 7 | ‘ … there are innumerable situations in which they [ tests of significance ] are totally unnecessary — because the difference is grotesquely obvious , because it is neglible , or because , whether it be formally significant or not , it is too small to be of any practical importance . |
| 8 | By then it is too late to be of any good to anyone , and particularly dad . |
| 9 | Such a model , in this bare form , is too mechanistic to be of real value . |
| 10 | The potential net pay of the basinal carbonate unit is too thin to be of interest as a reservoir because the total thickness of the unit in Tønder-2 is only 3 m . |
| 11 | Wendler recognises that object-oriented technology will play a central role in the distributed management systems of the future , though it is too immature to be of any real use at present , he says — ‘ the class definition stuff that OMG is working on now is much more important than the Object Request Broker . ’ |
| 12 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 13 | Combine these two flaws and there 's often a lack of players on-screen at one time — the scanner does n't help matters as it 's too small to be of any use . |
| 14 | It 's too fat to be in a shoe box . |
| 15 | Talks on a fishing agreement with the European Community ( EC ) have been suspended because of the fiery dispute with Spain and because the EC says the quotas are too mean to be worth discussing . |
| 16 | The problem lies with the documents , which are too short to be of real value . |
| 17 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 18 | Once more I tried to recall what was to happen , as recounted in Mary Shelley 's book , but what little returned was too vague to be of use . |
| 19 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |