Example sentences of "[was/were] too [adj] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the females in the family could help in that direction ; we were too poor for such richness . |
| 2 | He began work as a mining engineer in Lanarkshire and applied to Alexander Hamilton Douglas , tenth Duke of Hamilton [ q.v. ] , for permission to open a new mine on his land , but was refused on the grounds that he was too young for such responsibility . |
| 3 | He was too good for this place . |
| 4 | The other Edinburgh alternative for buying gear was the prestigious Jenners shop which was too expensive for most hill gangrels . |
| 5 | The rock above me was too steep for any animal to find foothold on . |
| 6 | He had now grown accustomed to me , and , as he was too ill for any kind of polite act , had left me in no doubt that he liked me . |
| 7 | Being 18 , I was too old for many children 's homes and too young for adult residential homes . |
| 8 | He thought of following her and then changed his mind ; he was too old for that sort of gesture . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you it was too tight for this scene , Red . ’ |
| 10 | There was concern amongst delegates that the information technology requirement of the level III award was too demanding for many students . |