Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] is too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the induction time for the ulcer is too short to be compatible with a direct radiation ulcer and the anatomical consistency and histological appearances are not those of acute radiation sickness . |
| 2 | The cause of the plane crash in the outer Hebrides yesterday which killed the ten-man crew of and R A F Shackleton aircraft , may never be fully known for the plane is too old to be fitted with a black box flight recorder . |
| 3 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 4 | The ending of the novel is too pat and contrived , but in the course of it Tabucchi has created an India which is constantly surprising and challenging to the European traveller/narrator/reader without ever allowing its mysticism or its exoticism to run away with it , for the sub-continent is also an ironically observed tourists ' India of hotels , buses , taxis , sights and restaurants . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether there will be any jobs for them at the end of the day is too early to say but at least they will be getting quality training which can be a kick-start in life . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps the ending of the video is too rosy , but then sexually abused children may need considerable reassurance that ‘ good things can still happen ’ . |
| 7 | The story of the Scouts is too familiar to require further repetition , except in so far as some acknowledgement of the movement is worthwhile in order to complete this description of the range of voluntary youth provision in the period . |
| 8 | Our echographic measurement of the antrum is too schematic for a physiological study of gastric motility but it is sufficient for use in crossover trials where each subject acts as his/ her own control . |
| 9 | The shame of having her ‘ dirty linen ’ ritually washed in public in this way by representatives of the community is too great for the woman and she suffers a stroke from which she dies shortly afterwards . |
| 10 | Some mares will actually stand and paw at a paddock fence because they want to get to a stallion that is a couple of paddocks away — consequently they are likely to cut a leg or rip off a shoe if the bottom wire of the fence is too close to the ground . |
| 11 | Their meeting at the City Ground supplies a chilling reminder that no side at the foot of the table is too good to go down , and that nice guys often do finish last . |
| 12 | Later organizational theorists ( for example , Starbuck , 1982 ) argue that the ‘ garbage-can ’ view of the world is too extreme in its implications that organizations have no controlled order at all . |
| 13 | If , however , different teachers experience different problems of this nature and often fail to discover the full range of options that the program offers , it will indicate that the driving system of the program is too complex and obscure and most certainly needs modifying . |
| 14 | Slope : what proportion of the farm is too steep to work safely or economically ? |
| 15 | Unfortunately the substance of the tale is too thin and familiar by far . |
| 16 | The change in the orbit of the earth is too slow to be observed , but this same effect has been observed over the past few years occurring in the system called PSR 1913+16 ( PSR stands for " pulsar , " a special type of neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves ) . |
| 17 | If you have very few batteries then its range is limited , if you have a lot of batteries then the weight of the load is too great , so much work and research is being devoted at the moment to the development of alternative batteries . |
| 18 | For example if the centre of the wheel is too far from the centre of the steering swivels then shimying. premature wheel bearing failure and poor handling may result . |
| 19 | By 1933 , the audience was already sophisticated enough to enjoy , in The Fatal Glass of Beer , scenes that deliberately emphasized the artificiality of the process , as when W C Fields half-heartedly drives his team of male mute dogs across the frozen Northern wastes of the Yukon , prospecting for gold — though one of the dogs is too small for its legs to reach the ground . |
| 20 | The time span of the thinking is too long , it makes the present moment arbitrary , a point on a graph that is in itself meaningless . |
| 21 | Having chosen the frame , I wanted a plain light background that would clearly show off the design , so I used a fairly heavy cream fabric — very often I avoid white backgrounds as the contrast with the flowers is too stark and harsh . |
| 22 | Firstly the complete lexicon supplied with the ANLT is too large to load into the KCL . |
| 23 | The first is how to represent the landscape , since assessment in the field is too laborious and costly . |
| 24 | There were three babies with chronic lung disease in the random group and none in the regulated group , but the total in the study is too small to say if either figure is different from the expected incidence of about 10% in this population of babies . |
| 25 | The British press was as good as its word ; but Radio Luxembourg is based in Paris , and for French listeners the story of a first-class row between their Anglo-Saxon neighbours to the west is too good to miss . |
| 26 | The problem is that the string jumps out of its nut slot under heavy strumming , because the post on the machinehead is too high to provide a break angle for the string over the nut . |
| 27 | Yeah , but Stanton on the Wolds is too small , we 're trying to link them in with Keyworth and it might well be he could do Tollerton as well . |
| 28 | ‘ Look , the tear on the shift is too high to coincide with that on the dress , and too far to the side . ’ |
| 29 | The sight on the barrel is too long . |
| 30 | Of course , if the adhesion at the interface is too weak then the material as a whole will be weakened so that , when there is no adhesion at all , one has to have some arrangement like cloth or rope or basket-work to hold the material together by friction . |