Example sentences of "[noun sg] is too [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ this boy is too sexy for television' ? |
| 2 | The economic concept of work is too narrow for ergonomics . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Chief Supt Baker added : ‘ The carnival is too big for Handsworth now and there are more suitable parks , big and accessible enough to cope better than the cramped Victorian streets of Handsworth . |
| 5 | Anti-monopoly regulation is not likely to stop this sort of move : entry remains unrestricted and the business is too small for regulators to intervene . |
| 6 | However , as I have said , this proportional factor is too abstruse for beginners to consider , even though for more mature composers it may well be an abiding concern . |
| 7 | The misunderstanding causes disaster when the mounted tom-cat discovers that the kitten is too small for mating . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Opera is too clumsy for ideology — it has no time for its sub-clauses and selective hatreds . |
| 10 | They are usually coupled with pain but that correlation is too loose for reliability . |
| 11 | In the end , no subject is too serious for opera to treat , or necessarily too unpleasant , or too poignant . |
| 12 | That thought is too depressing for words … player for player we are probably the strongest squad in the premier league . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | While not wishing to ‘ suggest that Blackburn ale is too potent for Accrington heads ’ , the football correspondent thought that this kind of thing happened too frequently . |
| 15 | Berghel goes on to explain that positional similarity is too narrow for spelling correction , whereas material similarity is too broad . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |