Example sentences of "[noun sg] be too [adj] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was driven to drawing them inside barns , where the light was too poor for painting . |
| 2 | ‘ this boy is too sexy for television' ? |
| 3 | The economic concept of work is too narrow for ergonomics . |
| 4 | This option is available at any time but will be particularly useful where equipment is too large for transport or for a screened room and where harmonised standards are unavailable or where the nature of the product means that evaluation by an expert would be useful . |
| 5 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
| 6 | The roots of this deflation are too complicated for discussion here . |
| 7 | The Parker Bowles 's lived just 20 minutes from Highgrove , Charles and Diana 's Gloucestershire home , and the princess feared Camilla and her husband were too close for comfort . |
| 8 | ‘ No job 's too big for Baby Fresh . ’ |
| 9 | A rather cryptic snort was the only response to this , as Mrs Porter turned to stir her soup , and Belinda , seeing that the housekeeper was too busy for chat , wondered what to do next . |
| 10 | It had indeed been thought that the climate was too severe for wheat to grow further north , but the richness of the soil there , the abundance of river and lake water , and the intensity of the short summer soon exploded this theory . |
| 11 | Categories include Superweed , Hanging 's Too Good For It ( for hanging baskets ) , and The Most Mis-shapen Potato . |
| 12 | The misunderstanding causes disaster when the mounted tom-cat discovers that the kitten is too small for mating . |
| 13 | I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again . |
| 14 | Now consider points above the LM curve , like point B : at this point , with the given level of income OY 1 , the interest rate is too high for equilibrium to be achieved in the monetary sector . |
| 15 | Opera is too clumsy for ideology — it has no time for its sub-clauses and selective hatreds . |
| 16 | Then , sensing that her manner was too abrupt for courtesy , added , ‘ They were killed in a traffic accident in France . ’ |
| 17 | They are usually coupled with pain but that correlation is too loose for reliability . |
| 18 | In the end , no subject is too serious for opera to treat , or necessarily too unpleasant , or too poignant . |
| 19 | The man was too weak for chloroform and had to be held by two of the dispensers , yet he did not utter a groan throughout the operation . |
| 20 | So no piece of information is too trivial for consideration : monster otaku may collect the names of the various actors who wore the rubber suits in an episode of Ultraman ( a trashy humanoid vs monster Japanese TV show , still watched on endless reruns ) and who were conspicuously shorter than in other shows ; ‘ idol ’ otaku may discover what university the father of Seventies teenybop star Hikaru Nishida attended . |
| 21 | Berghel goes on to explain that positional similarity is too narrow for spelling correction , whereas material similarity is too broad . |
| 22 | In cases where the souterrain was too large for storage of one village 's produce , it may have been used by the chief of an area as a sort of tithe barn for goods paid to him as tax . |
| 23 | She was proud of him , and of herself , but she was not too happy , for the strain was too great for happiness . |
| 24 | But his shot was too close for comfort and Philip Whitehead cleverly smothered the ball . |
| 25 | To show this , consider all the points to the left of the IS curve , like point A : at this point , with the given interest rate Oi 1 , the level of income is too low for equilibrium to be achieved in the real sector . |
| 26 | But mother 's too close for comfort ; there 'd be too many nearby friends , too many chances of bumping into people I 'd rather not bump into ; too much mitigating against the clean break ; new start . |
| 27 | His ( 1975 ) solution is to require that the two opposed elements have the same extension.4 However , this solution is too strong for phrasal appositions like the ones in [ 12 ] . |
| 28 | I knocked her weight down an eighth of an ounce in preparation for the next flight , but the next day the weather was too bad for flying , so I ‘ fattened ’ her up again . |