Example sentences of "[was/were] too [adj] to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their parents , the authorities and everyone else thought they were too young to be in love , too young to really cope with adult responsibilities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The cross was too large to be of much help , and the words on the back of the map were no better . |